how artificial intelligence is handled here
Whether you are excited for or dread it, artificial intelligence is here and it’s here to stay.
I personally am treading with caution. If I could have it all my way, humanity would use it like 5% of the time, and we’d collectively agree to use it with utmost responsibility and consumer protection.
That said, I’m also aware that it is way bigger than me and my personal judgments of it, and I’m doing my own slow, thorough exploration of what kind of relationship I might have with it. Naturally, it’s not like it’s entirely possible to be a total “purist” unless you live off-grid & offline or something, so this is a very nuanced and personal journey everyone will take with themselves.
As this blog was created to be a resource for people who had experienced stroke or were impacted by this in their families or communities, it eventually (and inevitably) evolved to become a journey led almost entirely by my personal experiences.
Because of this, as artificial intelligence is disembodied (and is not me), you can rest assured that all writing with my name attached to it is personally written by yours truly. When in doubt, you can assume this to be true. In fact, I posted this the other day to Threads:
All of this said, there is of course the very impending & rapid-paced reality of the fact that artificial intelligence is revolutionizing the way we as a species do things. There is a way where a person can easily get “left behind” if they don’t uplevel their relationship to technology, such as refusing to have a mobile phone or to learn how to use a computer. The other side of this is it can be very seductive to lose track of our bodies and lose ourselves to the tech (I have been known to lose hours to my screens, for example), and I am committed to keeping an important separation from what is synthetic and remaining grounded in my body.
The areas where I feel the most likely to dip my toes into using artificial intelligence is in the realm of certain kinds of research (like we used to use Google, which collectively has been in slow yet steady decline) or streamlining certain processes that would manually take excessive time to do. As of this writing in April/May 2025 I still have never once directly used ChatGPT, however if/when I allow artificial intelligence to inform my writing I will notate this.
I’m still rather skeptical about it all (especially in the scope of the subject matter for this blog) because of artificial intelligence’s crowdsourced nature; as my values and beliefs tend to lie outside of conventional medicine and the like. It is likely that research or biases reported to me via AI would not come from a perspective I value or place a lot of weight on.
The fact is we all absolutely must practice discernment with the information we consume (even mine 😉).
In case you are interested in more info as to why I feel so skeptical, here are some public opinion pieces re: artificial intelligence that I found supportive —
Danielle LaPorte’s fiery podcast eps:
Tana Saler’s sobering post sharing ChatGPT’s inherent bent towards misguidance:
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