Curious, Cautious, & Kinda Obsessed: Me + AI in 2025
TL;DR: I first tried ChatGPT in 2022 out of curiosity, and now—3 years later—I'm using A.I. weekly as a creative amplifier, not a replacement. This blog (written entirely with MY brain) explores my evolving relationship with A.I. as an artist and the spiritual and ethical questions it raises. Also why I believe conscious creatives have a vital role in shaping this technological revolution.
I am grateful to be beaming into your awareness today. I’m sitting down to write about my opinions about A.I. as an artist and business owner and just as myself. If that sounds like something of interest to you, keep reading.
I remember the first time I consciously tried an A.I. tool well. It was back in Spring of 2022. I brought up Chat GPT after one of my brothers explained he had been using it a lot and found it very beneficial. At the time I had no idea what “training a model” meant or what that was like.
So that day, sitting at my mom’s kitchen table, I logged in to Chat GPT and tried it for the first time. One of the first things I asked was “Tell me about the Solar Plexus Chakra.” It spouted off a paragraph explaining “Manipura” to me. I was somewhat impressed and also incredibly curious.
Could I learn to use this tool like my brother had?
Fast forward three years later and Chat GPT is a part of most of my workdays. I use it to help me stay organized and outline my hundreds of disparate ideas. I also feed it all of my writing so it knows my writing style. Note: This all used to creep me out way more than it does now.
I definitely feel the ”both/and” of The A.I. Revolution.
It's BOTH potentially very scary AND can be a major reorganizer.
I think it’s incredibly important to use A.I. wisely as an assistant or amplifier to our creativity rather than a replacement or dictator of it. Our intuition knows best, and so far at least, the A.I. isn’t smart enough yet to beat us at intuition (Although it will be far beyond us super soon).
I think the scariest part is that there is no going back and that no one can accurately predict what the world as we know it will be like in 5 years. Now, spiritually speaking, that’s been the truth forever. We’ve never really “known what’s coming” because mystery is a part of Life itself.
This past weekend (at the time of writing) I participated in The 2025 Mindvalley A.I. Summit. It was the third year they have done this free multiday event to sell their A.I. Mastery Program. While the A.I. Mastery Program sounded bonkers amazing, I chose not to enroll this year. I was super jazzed though, with all of the free learning I got to do about A.I.. The summit was over three days and had 12 hours of live content with around a dozen teachers.
I feel equipped to utilize these tools better than I was before and I was also delighted to hear how some of them are being used. That being said, not all A.I. applications delight me.
One of my favorite sessions in the summit was with Cassie Kozyrkov who is an Ex-Google “Chief Decision Scientist”. Her session was on decision-making with AI, but before she got into that she spoke on a few other acronyms that “A.I.” could represent. I shared these in a recent email newsletter. (To get on the list to receive weekly notes sent straight to your inbox, sign up here.)
Some other acronyms for “A.I.” include the following:
“Automatic Improver”
“Approachable Interface”
“Amplified Imagination”
“Advice integrator”
“Augmented Individuals”
I said in the email that “Amplified Imagination" was my fave at the time and I’m also really resonating with “Augmented Individuals”.
That’s the thing, as an artist I personally feel more empowered with this tool. I do feel augmented. Buuuut, the fact that some of the A.I.’s were trained on people’s work without permission is truly messed up!
It reminds me about how electric car batteries are often unethically produced. People are trying to do a good thing but there’s evil buried within.
In my most fearful moments (when I definitely do not feel empowered or responsible), I worry that evil is baked into this tech as well. I’ll acknowledge that fear. But the balm for it comes back to how we use these tools.
They are amplifiers.
They can amplify beauty or pain. Nourishment or disparity. Clarity or misalignment.
After my first email newsletter mentioning A.I. was sent out, I received a note from someone in my ecosystem. He was concerned that by using A.I. we are giving all of our power and brains away. He was worried A.I. would make us dumber, or worse.
I am definitely aware that when our brains, and bodies, are not required to “remember” something anymore, those parts dull. When we don’t “use what Source/God/The Universe/Our MAMA gave us”, we lose it. Sometimes it’s lost slowly where we don’t even notice (until we do) and sometimes it goes quickly.
How often do we have to reset passwords that are remembered in the “keychain” and not in our synapses?
How often do we find it hard to access that old joy we haven't accessed in years, from a long lost hobby maybe, or even a long lost friend?
It's true there are smart and ethical ways to use A.I. and then also some other ways too. I think it's up to all of us to decide what we are and are NOT available for in this new age.
And we all get to do that.
It has been said that this is one of three inflection points that totally changed - and revolutionized - human culture.
The first of these inflection points was industrialization. None of us can argue that industrialization changed and shaped the world and everyone had to evolve and adapt. Industrialization set the stage for the next revolution.
The second was the rise of the internet on planet Earth.
“Suddenly” (over a handful of years) we were connected globally in a way that simply was not possible before. We could and can learn, connect, enjoy and adapt because of “the world wide web”. It also forever changed us on the planet.
The third revolution is the one we are living through right now. The third human revolution that is molding history and culture is of course, the advent of A.I..
What I’m not saying is that these changes, these revolutions, were all for the best. They weren’t. There have been “cons”, along with the “pros” of cities and google, but those pros and cons are for another blog post.
I am focused on leveraging the “pros” of this new age as best as I possibly can.
I, just like you, am bringing the world through my faculties and trying to decide how to proceed, how to adjust, how to be and how to show up. How to make art, do business and steward my brand and lifeforce.
I, like some of you, remember Y2K, dialup and life before smartphones (I wrote many-a-direction on an envelope to have in the car with me!) This new age is shocking, but I know not as shocking as for those that have lived through much more than I have.
During the A.I. Summit, one of my favorite (and one of the scariest) metaphors was brought up on Day 2 by Noelle Russell.
She compared the A.I. of this exact moment, at the end of July in 2025, to a baby tiger.
It has razor sharp teeth and huge paws but right now at least: it’s a baby! And we have a chance to train it before it grows up.
This is terrifying… and exhilarating… to my nervous system.
I think that we need thoughtful, heart centered folks leading the charge. We need the right brainers, the creatives equipped with A.I.. And before you’re like “Brennah, NOOOO!” Hear me out:
Cities and the internet advanced us.
And A.I. can to, as long as we allow it to amplify our creativity instead of outsource it. The way I’m using A.I. is changing my life for the better at this point. And yes, it’s a big scary (but potentially also VERY beautiful) road ahead with this tech, really this force, on our planet and beyond.
So who’s with me (at least for now)?
Who is ready to take up this tool and learn a tiny bit more?
To buy back time for the things that matter most.
The bigger questions.
The “unique edge” we all carry.
How can we utilize this tool for consciousness?
How can we use it to discover our blind spots?
How can we use it to be even more human?
These are a few of the many questions I’m asking myself.
I know opinions vary WIDELY about this tool and what it means for us as a whole. I’d love to know though, what’s your view? Leave a comment below if you’d like. Thanks for reading, more soon.
Your messy human ally,
Brennah
PS: I tried writing blogs with A.I. but it just felt like cheating somehow, lol. Just so you know I wrote this piece entirely with my brain.🧠✍️🥳
