People Do Not Yearn for Automation

Despite widespread AI use — ChatGPT alone has 900 million weekly users — polls show most Americans distrust or dislike the technology, with over half believing it will do more harm than good. The tech industry sees this as a marketing problem, but the real issue is "software brain" — the mindset that everything can be reduced to databases and automated. Regular people don't want their lives flattened into data, and no amount of marketing can change that lived experience.