1. What if AI was less of an answer and more of a question?

2. What if the AI alphabet began with TBD?

3. What if we stopped overhyping the damned technology?

4. What if we recognized that AI without humans in the loop is the sound of one chip flopping?

5. What if the AI industrial codaplex realized the intelligent path is to augment, not replace?

6.  What if employers decided the metric isn’t how many people you get to fire, but how much productivity you can ignite?

7.  What if we admitted that AI trust and authority signals don’t mirror what gets humans to believe, embrace, or desire?

8.  What if we stopped making silly generalizations like — oh, I dunno — an em dash is a surefire sign it was written by AI?

9.  What if optimizing for traditional search and optimizing for AI-enabled search was a coming together, not a falling apart?

10.  What if stacking AI subscription fees sparked the same backlash that’s crushing cable?

11.  What if the creative community used its purchasing power to hold AI platforms accountable?

12.  What if the lawyers required creative prompts to include phrases that would reduce the risk of creative theft?”

13.  What if studies showed that AI models degrade when they’re only trained on other AI output?

14.  What if we all realized that free AI services from a tech giant is a giant come-on?

15.  What if businesses will be the first to widely accept the value of AI agents?

16.  What if branded AI agents offering concierge service will be how the consumer train gets rolling?

17.  What if we came to grips that, as of now, AI is more of a vibe than a brand?

18.  What if the conclusion “if no one notices the difference, there is no difference” was destructively false?

19.  What if we didn’t just twiddle our doomscrolling thumbs by doing more than just doomscrolling?

20.  What if A.I., done right, could “help rebuild the middle class by giving a broader range of workers access to expertise”?

21.  What if AI turned into a wake-up call for healthy skepticism and critical thinking?

22.  What if we celebrated the value of human spontaneity and the happy creative coincidence?

23.  What if AI gee-whiz was destined to become so-what in a few years?

24.  What if this blog post wasn’t written with the help of AI?

25.  What if it was?