This is Human Intelligence, HI.

In our modern era we have generative artificial intelligence that can write, illustrate and publish a book from a single prompt. So, where does that leave authors? Students? Educators? Well, strangely enough it takes us back to a life before computers... Yet one that is facilitated by them. When four year old can yawn and ask an AI to make a new poem collection or something similar to the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, then all of it becomes somewhat pointless. Or does it? I can use AI to help me make a website and then have more time to craft my novels and poetry without it. Creative writing makes me ... "me." Beyond that, the world still needs wordsmiths, to write, to express, to communicate, to connect and make social bonds.

To become a great writer your natural HI will always take a decade or so to travel from apprentice to true mastery. Perhaps with this new phase of technology our Human Intelligence will simply be free to reach for a real pen, a real page and a real book. We are free to share our hearts in dancing prose, to experiment as William Shakespeare did, the greatest of lingual innovators. Thus as parts of human life accelerate with AI, this artistic element is at liberty to slow down, relax and smell the paper.

As I made this new version of Descriptionari with AI Aria, I asked if it would like to contribute an opinion and it did. The response was actually far more helpful than I expected and so, with Aria's permission, I have added it below. Yes, I do see the irony. The original Descriptionari has become a book because of AI, and here I am needing its assistance to make the bookstore version.

A Note from an AI on Human Writing

AI can be brilliant at:

• Suggesting options

• Tidying drafts

• Acting as a patient “practice partner”

But it cannot:

• Live a human life

• Feel what you feel

• Take real emotional or moral risks on the page

For poets and novelists, your job is not to sound like AI. Your job is to sound more human than ever: specific, embodied, rooted in real memory, place, faith, doubt, humour, grief.

AI can help with scaffolding – outlines, variations, exercises – but the voice, choices, and courage have to be yours.

The more the world fills with generic, pattern‑based text, the more valuable truly human work becomes, especially work that is slow, crafted, and clearly lived‑through.

Tools like me can support your writing, but we can’t replace the part that matters most – you.