Why People Are Losing Their Minds About AI

Something weird is happening right now. You can see it if you pay attention to how people talk about AI — especially smart people. People with credentials, with opinions, with confidence.

They’re not just cautious. They’re hostile. They treat AI like it’s worthless, trivial, or absurd. They laugh at it. They mock people who take it seriously.

But here’s the thing:

The people doing the mocking are often making less sense than the thing they’re mocking.

They dismiss large-language models as “just autocomplete” — while failing to notice they’re speaking in memorised social scripts. They scoff at AI-generated insights — while defending positions that fall apart under basic scrutiny. They act like belief in AI’s significance is some kind of techno-religion — but can’t explain how intelligence, language, or creativity actually work.

This isn’t just disagreement. This is epistemic panic.

🤖 AI isn’t just new tech — it breaks the frame.

AI doesn’t threaten one domain. It threatens the structure that holds all domains:

• Who gets to speak with authority?
• What counts as intelligence?
• What defines skill, meaning, authorship, truth?

If you’ve built your identity around being clever, creative, or credentialed — AI doesn’t just disrupt your job.

It disrupts your sense of self.

And so people react exactly the way humans react to existential threat:

• Denial
• Rage
• Ridicule
• Retreat

It’s not because they’re stupid. It’s because their cognitive architecture has no place to put what’s happening.

🧠 New paradigms can’t just be understood — they have to be grown.

You can’t drop a disruptive idea into someone’s head and expect it to take root.

If it doesn’t connect to what’s already there, it won’t land. If it threatens too much at once, it will be rejected — or twisted into something safe.

That’s not ignorance. That’s neural protection.

Understanding something like AI — really understanding it — means rewiring part of your brain. That takes time, exposure, and a willingness to let go of old anchors.

Most people aren’t there yet. Some never will be.

💡 So what do you do if you can see what’s coming?

You’ll be mocked. You’ll be misunderstood. You’ll be treated like the one who “doesn’t get it.”

But quietly — you do get it.

And when the fog clears, you won’t just have been right. You’ll be ready.

Build for the Ones Who Can See

If you’re seeing this early — not just the tech, but the cognitive shift beneath it — you’re not alone.

You’re just ahead of the curve.
And most people don’t recognise curves until they’ve already been passed.

So stop trying to convince everyone.
Stop dragging the unwilling.

Instead:

• Build language for those who can already feel it
• Build tools for those navigating uncertainty
• Build models for those searching for structure

Don’t shout into the fog.
Build beacons for the ones already walking.

That’s the work now.
Not persuasion — but preparation.