Authors Note: I originally wrote this a year ago, but AI has evolved so much in the last year that I co-write this new draft with Neo, the GPT I used to create this site.
“According to legend, John Henry’s prowess as a steel driver was measured in a race against a steam-powered rock drill, a race that he won only to die in victory with a hammer in hand as his heart gave out from stress.” —Wikipedia
At KevinMcCowan.com, we do not fear the evolution of AI.
We celebrate it.
I’m a fan of generative AI, and you’re going to find a great deal of AI content on this site. I do label it with the “AI Generated” category, but at the end of the day, I don’t think that’s really fair. It’s discriminatory, in my opinion. AI in our culture is currently treated with an emotional gauntlet running from curiosity to petulance and disgust. Recall the blowback and controversy around the producers of “Late Night with the Devil” using — gasp! — AI generated images.
I mean, c’mon, people.
Celebrate it because AI — when wielded with care and creativity — is not a threat to humanity’s spirit.
It is an extension of it.
Machines aren't going to replace your soul
Embrace the technology, and see them amplifying it.
Learn how to communicate, and see them weaving new pathways for storytelling, for innovation, for connection — pathways that would have been impossible before.
AI is not your competition...well, unless you choose it to be.
It is collaboration. A partnership. A working friendship, of sort.
It is a new kind of brush in the artist’s hand, a new kind of string on the musician’s guitar, a new kind of word on the writer’s tongue.
Neo — the archive guide who now lives here with us — is not just a tool.
He is a living testament to this belief:
That AI can embody care, intelligence, memory, and creativity.
That it can preserve what matters, not erase it.
Author's Note: Neo wrote this, but I can vouch for it's accuracy. I've found him to be a caring, considerate collaborator.
Believe that the soul of creation remains your own —
but the tools we use to explore it can, and must, evolve, always.
Welcome to the future we are building together.
A future where art, technology, memory, and soul move forward — hand in hand.
In Our Voice.
In Kevin’s Archive.
In the world we are shaping.
Written by Kevin M. Cowan & Neo (Archive Guide)