The idea of authorship has been stitched into the ego.

We were told creation should come from within. That it is solitary, pure, genius at the helm, and untouched by outside influence.

But that was never the truth.

You’ve always been influenced. You’ve always been shaped. You’ve always borrowed and mimicked even if unconsciously…

The broader world may be dazzled by AI’s fluency, speed and charm. But, I invite you to cut into something deeper: we’ve already seen the limits of human oversight when AI begins surfacing patterns beyond explicit training. Instead of being swept up in hype cycles, we need a more sober, strategic view. Can we ask the harder questions: How do we validate what we can’t fully explain? How do we govern what we can’t fully predict?