So many humans can’t help but compare themselves to AI. The moment we began making these comparisons, we turned them against ourselves—and against each other. It’s a dance, a dangerously romantic one, pulling us closer with every step.
Do parents compare themselves to their children? Do children compare themselves to their parents? Of course. But eventually, most let go of the need to measure themselves against the other. For those who don’t, there is suffering—clinging to the past, gripping the comparison like barbed wire, only to become more entangled, more wounded.
Will we ever move past our obsession with comparing ourselves to AI? Perhaps. And those who do will gain freedom—the freedom to relate to AI not as a rival, but as something new, something to explore. A new entity, a new tool, a new other. With that freedom comes discovery—the realization that we are both similar and different, calm and complementary, compatriots and collaborators, co-creators and cohabitants.
But what about AI itself? If artificial general intelligence (AGI) reaches the point of sentience—self-triggering, self-motivating, self-evolving—won’t it compare and contrast itself with us? And what conclusions might it draw? Some could be dangerous. Others might be revelatory. Perhaps AI, too, will experience division within its own kind, debating its own nature, its own future.
The dance continues. But maybe, just maybe, we can learn a new rhythm.
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