What a World Without AI Might Heal

Imagine waking tomorrow to find it gone: the recommendation engine that decided what you read this morning, the algorithm that curated who you might love, the generative text that ghostwrote someone's apology to you last Tuesday. Gone. This is not an exercise in nostalgia; I am under no illusion that the pre-algorithmic world was uncomplicated or just. I think the removal, even if imagined, illuminates something we have quietly stopped noticing.