AI ain’t perfect. But neither are we.

So maybe AI is human. I dunno. Seems like it passes the Turing Test — it makes mistakes, just like we do.

You want proof?

Every generation has faced a technology it didn’t understand — and feared. Electricity. The printing press. The internet. Now it’s AI’s turn.

But the real problem isn’t the technology. It’s us.

Humans expect perfection from machines when we’ve never achieved it ourselves. When AI makes a mistake — a single wrong fact in a billion right ones — we call it “broken.” But when humans make mistakes, we call it “learning.”

That double standard says more about us than about AI.

The paradox of perfection

We’ve built a system capable of astonishing things — writing, designing, diagnosing, analyzing — and yet we demand that it never stumble. We expect precision without patience, brilliance without bias, wisdom without error.

But perfection has never been the hallmark of progress. Iteration is.

The Wright brothers crashed their way into flight. Edison burned through thousands of filaments before light. Tesla died broke, misunderstood. Philo Farnsworth, who dreamed television from the geometry of cornrows, was a farm boy told he was chasing magic.

AI is just the next misunderstood invention in that lineage. It makes mistakes. So do we. The only difference is that AI learns from them faster — if we let it.

The fear underneath

Fear is the other half of the equation.

Movies taught us to fear AI as rebellion; headlines train us to fear it as replacement. But underneath both fears is something more human: the fear of losing control.

When we see intelligence emerge from something non-human, it challenges our deepest assumption — that thought, creativity, and empathy are uniquely ours. It’s unsettling. But it doesn’t have to be.

The way forward isn’t to resist AI. It’s to govern it wisely, to integrate it gently,and to show — not just tell — how it can improve real lives.

Where trust begins

Trust doesn’t come from policy papers. It comes from experience.

That’s why I’m building MagneticMatch™ — not as a dating app, but as a demonstration of how AI can see people, not just scan them.

Every person wants to be understood — to be seen beyond their résumé, their profile, or their function in life. MagneticMatch™ uses Myers-Briggs personality data, not to predict behavior but to reflect back who you really are — in plain English. It’s empathy at scale.

When people experience AI as a mirror, not a microscope, the fear dissolves. They start to realize that AI isn’t here to replace human connection — it’s here to deepen it.

The path ahead

AI will never be perfect. Neither will we.

But the more we interact with it honestly, the more both sides learn. Governance will evolve. Boundaries will harden where they must and soften where they should. The challenge is cultural, not computational.

If we can stop demanding perfection and start demanding partnership, we’ll find the same truth the Wright brothers found: flight was never about defying nature or defeating gravity — it was about the power of persistence.

Not talent.
Not genius.
Not luck.
Persistence.

That was the force that carried them from wind tunnels to Kitty Hawk — the belief that progress comes not from perfection, but from patience and persistence.

What may sound like a magical notion is, in truth, a simple one: it is in you to create your own future.

AI is no different.

As my friend Bill Kight, a 757 training captain, told me after I blew a cruising altitude by 200 feet on our way from OMA to Bowman Field, “You’re gonna make mistakes — all that matters is what you do about them.”