FOOLS RUSH IN

I don't know if you're noticing it, but it seems like the deluge of AI tools available has convinced mankind and his next-door neighbour to stop racking their own brain cells. Not that the vast majority were any smarter before AI arrived on the scene, but the 'wisdom' that is suddenly spawning across social media (including LinkedIn), in emails, presentation slides, and other modes of correspondence, and other spheres of life has become too hard to digest anymore. It's almost as if a single overworked person is creating all the content that's being gurgitated (is that a word?) and regurgitated across the globe.

Most of us will argue that students (specifically MBA students) probably rushed in first. It is not hard to imagine those young'uns still wet behind their ears and with wet dreams in their eyes (about money of course), using AI to catch up with weekly project deadlines. But given how quickly word (and prompts) spread among these smart asses, it might be nearly impossible to spot differences between two submissions. I can imagine every essay beginning with “In today’s fast‑paced world…” and ending with “In conclusion, technology is both a challenge and an opportunity.” Professors might be forgiven for skipping grading and simply circling careless parentheses and other dead giveaways.

Next on the list are corporate slaves, while I personally think that these creatures are probably the ones who use generative AI the most...and mostly for mundane tasks such as drafting emails, responding tactfully to emails, sending out stern emails and stinkers, and interpreting jargon-infused emails. And maybe occasionally for churning out insightful reports and powerpoint slides. Some smart alecs use AI to negotiate their performance appraisal discussions with their reporting managers, blissfully unaware that those very same managers have already consulted AI Baba before initiating these discussions.

Then there are some poets and writers. Although, I wonder if they can really pull this off. And even if they do, for how long can they keep up the charade? After all, can machines really beat the creativity and imagination of well-oiled human mind? I don't think so. Editors and proofreaders on the other hand can now breathe easy. All they seem to have to do these days is spot parentheses, em-dashes,  hallucinations and footnotes to nowhere, and get rid of them.

I would have liked to believe that politicians aren’t far behind in the race. But who are we kidding? Our home-grown talent pool of netas is hopeless. This bunch of jokers is far beyond help.

And so, ladies and gentlemen, the race to deploy AI has ballooned into a full‑blown frenzy. And although it might seem like all fools have rushed in, the real tragedy is that they’re rushing out too...out of originality, out of accountability, and out of the very human spark that made ideas worth listening to in the first place.

Yet the truth is that it isn't machines that are replacing us; we’re replacing ourselves. One lazy prompt at a time.

This post is a part of the BlogchatterA2Z Challenge 2026