AI & Our Kids’ Future – Part 2

What Happens When the Art Is Made, But the Artist Is Gone?

We’ve already seen how AI is quietly taking jobs (Part 1), let's now explore what happens when the bots start doing better work than our kids, and faster?

After facing the reality of jobs vanishing, there’s another challenge creeping in:
What happens when the very work of being human starts to be replaced?

We’re told to keep up. To pivot. To embrace the new wave of AI-created roles:

• Prompt engineers
• AI safety officers
• Human-machine relationship managers (yes, that’s a thing)

And sure, 4.5 million new roles have emerged globally in the wake of AI.
➡️ Source: World Economic Forum, Future of Jobs Report

But here’s the question that won’t leave me:

What are we giving up… to keep up?

🎨 When Creativity Becomes Command

We used to make art.
Now we describe it.
We used to write stories.
Now we outline them.
We used to play with ideas.
Now we instruct the machine to do it for us.

The end result might look the same to a business, a blog, a portrait, a product design...

But the process?
It’s no longer human.
It’s efficient, sure. But it’s stripped bare.

We sit, type, revise, tweak, eight hours a day telling machines what we want instead of discovering it ourselves.

No clay under our fingernails.
No brush strokes.
No flow state.
No heart.

🧠 What’s the Cost of Efficiency?

And I can’t help but wonder:

❓ What is this doing to our mental health?

❓ What will this do to our kids’ sense of creativity, confidence, contribution?

We’re in danger of forgetting what it feels like to be in something.
To lose ourselves in the joy of making, not just for productivity, but for pleasure.

So yes, let’s adapt.
Let’s evolve.
Let’s learn the tools.

But let’s also ask:

What does it cost to become a commander of creativity, rather than a creator?

Because when the art is made... but the artist is gone...

What kind of world are we actually building?

💬 Join the Conversation

I’d love to hear your thoughts:

• Are we losing something essential in the creative process?
• How do we help our kids stay connected to making, not just managing?

Drop a comment below or follow the series on LinkedIn.
Next week: Thinking Ahead Without Fear—we’ll talk about future-proof skills and raising resilient kids in a world that won’t sit still.

Thanks for reading!

Gill T

🤖 P.S. About Those Images...

If you’re loving the visuals in this series, yep, they were whipped up with a little help from AI.
Of course I used Artistly.ai, because why not let the robots do the heavy lifting while we sip our coffee and plot world domination?

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