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AI, Heidegger, and Evangelion
Our brains, evolved for tribal politics and campfire stories, are ill-equipped for the moral ambiguity of a system with no soul to save or damn.
Unlike obvious automation in spreadsheets or homework grading, which we view as mechanical drudgery and are happy to offload, AI-generated prose attempts to inhabit domains we instinctively associate with authentic subjectivity: observation, memory, yearning, regret. In reference to Girard, every society is built, in part, on the ritual of scapegoating, a mechanism by which collective anxieties, rivalries, and fears are projected onto a villain or outcast, thereby restoring temporary order through exclusion or blame. Our task is not to panic when the machine gets close, nor to mythologize our differences into oblivion, but to take seriously the ongoing work of being human: suffering, loving, resisting reduction, and making art out of what refuses to compute.
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