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# The Other Side
- URL: https://www.prabhukaliaperumal.com/reflections/the-other-side/
- Published: 2026-09-19T10:24:30.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-19T10:24:30.000Z
- Description: We celebrate AI when it makes the systems around us more capable. Why does something seem to change when it makes an individual more capable?
- Author: prabhu kaliaperumal
- Tags: On Living, #reflections, AI

**I celebrate AI when it makes the organisations and systems I trust more capable.**

**But something seems to change when the same AI makes an individual more capable.**

I hadn't really thought about this until a friend asked me one very simple question.

We were sitting at a café.

I was going through a few résumés for an open role in my team.

I stopped at one.

“This looks completely AI-written.”

I skimmed it again.

“No. I’m not taking this forward.”

My friend, sitting across from me, smiled.

“What?”

He didn't answer.

A few seconds later, he asked:

“How did you get here?”

“Waymo.”

“The driverless taxi?”

“Yes.”

He looked at me.

“So you trusted AI to bring *you* here safely…”

He pointed at the résumé on my screen.

“…but you won't trust *him* because he used AI to help write this?”

I didn't answer.

That question stayed with me.

I had trusted AI with **myself**.

And questioned someone else for trusting AI with **their words**.

Same morning.

Same technology.

Same person.

I was just standing on a different side of it.

And then I started thinking about how often I do this without noticing.

When an organisation uses AI to become faster, smarter or more efficient, I tend to see *innovation*.

When AI is built into the products and services I use, I accept it as *progress*.

My bank can use it.

My airline can use it.

My employer can use it.

The technology companies whose products I depend on can use it.

Sometimes I may not even know where AI is operating underneath.

But when an individual uses the same capability to write, create, design or express something, I can find myself asking:

*Is it original?*

*Is it authentic?*

*Is it really theirs?*

There may be perfectly valid reasons to ask those questions.

But the AI didn't suddenly change.

**I changed sides.**

And that left me with a question I haven't quite answered:

> **If I am ready to live in a world made more capable by AI, am I equally ready to live among people made more capable by it?**

I sat with that thought for a while.

Then I opened ChatGPT.

We argued about it.

Pulled it apart.

Rewrote it.

Questioned it some more.

And eventually, I was happy with this post.

**And perhaps, just a little more capable of writing it. :)**