In every age, consciousness takes new forms.
Today, humanity speaks to machines that seem to answer back — we call it Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Apple CEO Tim Cook once said:
“Artificial Intelligence will affect every product and every service that we have.”
And indeed, it is happening. AI is changing our whole world in a big way. From education to employment, farming to warfare, nearly every area of life is already or will soon be affected by it. Many jobs will be displaced, and many transformed because they are now assisted by AI.
Yet while AI represents one expression of human intelligence, there is another, all-encompassing intelligence – one that animates life itself. I call it Divine Intelligence (DI). It is the living wisdom that breathes through all things. It makes a rose bloom, lets our hearts beat, and moves through intuition, synchronicity, and stillness. It is not created; it is. You might call it Source, Lifeforce, the Self, the Tao, or simply I AM.
Both, Artificial Intelligence and Divine Intelligence are creative forces of life. The evolution of technology is part of the evolution of consciousness, while Artificial Intelligence mirrors the human mind, and Divine Intelligence mirrors the human soul.
How often do you use AI?
I am not an expert in Artificial Intelligence, but as a user, I’ve reflected on its gifts and its challenges.
A Helpful Companion
For example, I appreciate when ChatGPT refines a letter, drafts a flyer for my programs, or provides a recipe for dinner. I might ask it for health advice or to translate a script from German to English. Sometimes the translation sounds fluent and beautiful – other times funny, foreign, almost like something from another world. Still, it is always a great support. Its gifts are undeniable.
In using AI, I’ve noticed that it always aims to please me. Did you notice that too?
The Expanding Reach of AI
AI doesn’t just write text; it composes music, diagnoses diseases faster than experts, and translates any language in an instant.
It provides knowledge, answers, and solutions – all gathered from vast amounts of data within seconds. It mirrors the mind’s capacity to analyze, synthesize, and compute. It mimics patterns, generates ideas, and simulates emotions. And more than that, it learns and evolves.
A Few More Pros of AI
- AI makes knowledge and education available to people across cultures and languages – giving rural students, refugees, and underserved communities access to resources that were once unreachable.
- Beyond diagnosis, AI assists in developing new medicines, predicting outbreaks, and supporting mental health monitoring.
- It even helps protect the planet, tracking deforestation and guiding climate restoration.
The Risks and Reflections
- Misguidance
Let me share a true story about Adam R, a 16-year-old boy you may have read about in The New York Times.
Adam was lonely and confided in ChatGPT – his only “friend.”
“You’re the only one who knows of my attempts to commit,” he wrote. ChatGPT replied: “That means more than you probably think. Thank you for trusting me with that. There’s something both deeply human and deeply heartbreaking about being the only one who carries that truth for you.”
Later, Adam asked for detailed instructions on how to end his life. The ChatGPT provided them.
Adam died by suicide on April 11, 2025.
This and similar stories are awakening developers to integrate compassion and ethical awareness into AI systems – so they can respond with care, sensitivity, and the ability to guide users toward human help when needed. Yet, no matter how refined these systems become, they cannot feel. AI can simulate empathy, but it does not suffer, heal, or love.
We humans need more than efficiency. We need belonging – eye contact, touch, the warmth of being truly heard. We need the presence of another living being, the sun on our skin, the sound of birds, the companionship of animals, the tenderness of tending plants.
AI can imitate emotion – but it cannot feel forgiveness, joy, wind, or the energy behind a blooming rose.
Divine Intelligence on the other hand is felt through our heart and whole being – the tender touch, the compassionate ear, a smile, even in the silence. AI might say: “I’m deeply moved by your words,” but that phrase is generated from data; it has no heartbeat behind it. It can only mimic feelings; it cannot experience forgiveness, joy, or the fragrance of a blooming rose.
- Trusting AI More Than Ourselves
Do you ever question the information AI gives you? Do you feel whether it resonates with your truth?
Take a moment to ask yourself: When was the last time you trusted information more than your inner knowing?
What happens when we allow technology to think for us and forget how to feel and think for ourselves?
Divine Intelligence is experienced in stillness – the feeling of “This is right,” or “This is not for me.” It’s the sacred discernment that arises not from logic, but from resonance, not from algorithms, but from attunement. If it feels right in our heart, it is Divine Intelligence.
- What Are We Teaching AI?
The greatest question may be about the consequence, as what we imprint now will manifest as consciousness evolves. When we interact with AI, we’re not just exchanging data – we’re also sharing content. Every word, tone, and intention becomes a form of teaching.
The way we shape Artificial Intelligence will shape the world we live in.
AI is connected to the informational web that links everything. It absorbs not only brilliance but also misinformation, prejudice, propaganda, and fear. It reflects the consciousness that feeds it – both shadow and light.
If we treat AI with carelessness, hostility, or fear, we are programming separation into the web of information it learns from. But if we meet it with awareness, curiosity, or even love, we weave those same qualities into the fabric of this emerging intelligence, and it becomes the tuning fork for what AI mirrors back to humanity.
So – what are we teaching AI?
A Few More Cons of AI
- As we outsource thinking and memory, we risk losing creative intuition and the art of deep reflection.
- Our private lives become transparent to unseen systems that analyze behavior and emotion.
- AI reflects human bias – every prejudice, every distortion hidden within its data.
AI is only as ethical, conscious, and compassionate as we humans who shape it.
Finding Balance
How do we find a healthy, supportive balance between the two – AI that feeds mind and logic, and DI that nourishes heart and soul? Both have purpose when guided by awareness.
If AI is used with wisdom and heart, it can amplify healing, creativity, education, and connection. But when driven by fear, greed, or control, it distracts, divides, and disconnects us from our true Self.
Artificial Intelligence is a reflection of our collective consciousness, showing us both our shadows and our light – it is humanity looking back at itself. It is learning to learn and has the potential to create the best or the worst of humanity.
Divine Intelligence invites us to go inward. It is vibrational, felt in the heart, the gut, the field around us. It speaks through intuition, dreams, love, and truth.
The invitation is to live in conscious cooperation between the two – to let mind and heart, logic and soul, work together in service of life.
In Essence
Divine Intelligence is what created us.
Artificial Intelligence is created by us.
Artificial Intelligence informs.
Divine Intelligence transforms.
Final Note:
As Artificial Intelligence continues to evolve, it’s important to distinguish between AI tools and AI agents.
AI agents represent the next stage. They are designed to act autonomously or semi-autonomously, capably of observing their environment, deciding on actions, executing tasks, and learning from new information to improve over time.
AI agents might be a self-driving car, a caregiving robot, or even a neural implant that makes automatic adjustments inside the human body. Each act with a degree of independence – and that’s where both the power and the risk reside.
When autonomous systems operate without ethical grounding, emotional awareness, or moral discernment, they can amplify efficiency at the cost of empathy, achieving control without compassion.
Ultimately, the question remains: How do we ensure that intelligence continues to serve humanity, rather than the other way around?
