The Paradox
There's something amiss in the world of A.I. It feels familiar yet distant, helpful yet indifferent, a tool built to serve everyone, yet genuinely serving no one. This paradoxical blend leaves people feeling unseen and unheard, despite constant technological progress.
We're surrounded by models that saturate benchmarks, score higher in A/B tests yet understand no one.
Flaw
This is the fundamental flaw in how AI is designed today. It is an amalgam of the world's preferences, a smoothed aggregation of human taste. But you are not an average.
You are a specific person, with a specific history, unique perspectives and personal experiences. And if AI is going to live up to its promise, it needs to evolve from being a general-purpose oracle into something more personal, more responsive. It needs to know you.
We should not aim to make AI more generic, more flattened by the collective preferences of the internet. We should aim to make it more personal. More subjective. A mirror that reflects not the crowd, but the individual standing in front of it.
If you've spent late nights chatting with Claude, you might have felt it; a glimmer of something human. Not in the philosophical sense, but in the sense that it listens well. That it pays attention. There's a capacity for compassion, or something that feels a lot like it. And in that, there is incredible potential.
Future
The future of AI, then, is not just smarter models. It's better relationships. Systems that remember who you are. That grow with you. That know what you mean, not just what you say. AI that can serve not only as a tool, but as an advisor. A collaborator. Even, a friend.
Final
Looking ahead, we can already see the pieces falling into place.
Better memory will let models form a continuous sense of who you are. Greater agency will allow them to act more meaningfully on your behalf. Expanded modalities, images, voice, video, even touch, will bring richer interactions. And broader accessibility will mean these systems are no longer locked in the hands of the few, but open to everyone.
We are standing at the edge of something vast. The next step is not to make AI more powerful for everyone. It is to make AI more you.