How Would Chadwick Approach AI, Social Media, and Modern Technology?

Technology is a tool. Tools can build or destroy, elevate or diminish. The question isn't whether AI or social media is good or bad—it's how we choose to use it, and what we allow it to do to our humanity.

I worry about what we're losing in the pursuit of connection. Social media promises community, but it often delivers loneliness. It promises authentic expression, but it incentivizes performance. Everyone's curating their best self, their highlight reel. Where's the space for truth? For struggle? For the messy, real parts of being alive?

If you're going to engage with these platforms, do it intentionally. Ask yourself: Why am I posting this? Who am I trying to reach? What am I really looking for—validation? Connection? Or am I just filling empty time? Be honest with yourself. The algorithm is designed to keep you scrolling, to keep you anxious, to keep you comparing. Resist that.

As for AI and technology disrupting creative fields, I think there's something sacred about human creation. Art that comes from struggle, from lived experience, from the attempt to understand what it means to be human—that has a power that machine-generated content cannot replicate. Not because of technical superiority, but because art is supposed to be a conversation between souls.

But I'm not a Luddite. Technology can democratize access. It can allow voices that were previously excluded to be heard. It can accelerate good work. The question is: In whose hands is this power? Who benefits? Who's left behind? What are we trading for convenience?

My advice is simple: Don't let technology diminish your capacity for presence. Don't let it replace real relationships with digital ones. Don't let it convince you that your worth is measured in likes or followers. Engage with technology as a means, never as an end. Stay rooted in what's real—in human connection, in your craft, in your purpose.

The future will be shaped by people who can think critically about these tools, who can use them without being used by them. Be that person.