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If You’re So Intelligent, Why Do You Use AI?

October 9, 2026 by Basil Puglisi Leave a Comment

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The question every AI user hears at the table, answered with a story.

Teresa drafts grant proposals with a machine. Her brother-in-law Dale has never typed a prompt and asks why someone intelligent would. Her answer runs through Tron, Jurassic Park, and two versions of The Shining, and lands on the three old reasons people refuse a new tool: jealousy, fear, and prejudice. Verified history, invented people, one backyard argument.

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