My friends use AI regularly, but I refuse to. I'm learning to keep my beliefs and opinions about it to myself.

My first true encounter with AI was at a teacher training about two years ago, where the objective was to show the different ways AI could save teachers' time.

I then decided to ask AI for an age-appropriate chore chart for my 10-year-old son at the time. It was the one thing in my life that I could think of that I really needed help with. The list AI gave me was adequate, but I knew I would never reference it. It felt cold and generic.

I decided then not to use AI anymore; I wish I could say the same for my friends.

All my close friends use AI regularly to do everything from designing their weekly meal plans to scheduling out their entire weeks. They rave about how brilliant and helpful it is.

Getting on board with AI is almost starting to feel like peer pressure. I do realize that I cannot entirely resist technological change, but choosing to do my own thing instead of using AI is my choice right now.

I'd love to stand on the rooftops and yell about why I don't want to use AI, but because I love my friends, I don't want to criticize them and their choices.

One of my friends talked me out of a poor haircut decision by asking ChatGPT to alter a photo she had of me with the haircut.

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It was not a good look, and in this instance, a friend used AI to save me from regretting a rash haircut decision and many years of awkwardly growing my hair out. Still, this one experiment wasn't enough to lure me to AI use in my everyday life.

In this way, I feel like I can still express my opinions about AI while showing my love and respect for them simultaneously.

I think it's been a blessing in disguise to be so close to people utilizing AI because it's forced me to learn how to communicate my feelings about it in a nonconfrontational way.

I might have strong opinions regarding the technology, but that doesn't mean one of my best friends needs a lecture from me for asking ChatGPT to show her how to add more protein to her diet. I'd rather listen to her tell me excitedly about the week of dinners she's looking forward to because I just love listening to her.