AI, if prompted correctly, can serve as a tool to expand your understanding of life by challenging how you see things. When it offers a different perspective of meaning, it isn’t saying you were “stupid”. It’s showing you how your current interpretation might be limited by the lens you’re currently using.
In effect, your interpretations may seem perfectly legitimate, even working functionally within your stage of understanding. However, engaging with AI lets you explore ideas from newer vantage points, revealing nuances or connections you might not have noticed before. This is effectively growth in action. So it’s not about a measure of your intelligence but about an expansion of your perception.
This is the paradox of development in that what once felt unquestionably true may later seem like a radical misinterpretation of life. So using AI in this way requires that you have the courage to step into a new space of possibilities that can radically alter your perception of yourself and your world around you, letting you see it from a much broader and deeper vantage point.
Much of our suffering comes from wrong perceptions. To remove that hurt, we have to remove our wrong perception.
Thích Nhất Hạnh