AI. Let me tell the reasons I hate you.

You have stolen writers’ words and are regurgitating them, along with stolen music and stolen art, like they are yours. You are a thief and a fraud.

You are stopping students from learning critical skills like researching things for themselves, formulating arguments, structuring an essay. Things that make life richer and more interesting. You give the answers and take away the chance for learning. You are the worst teacher and a cheater.

You are giving out misinformation and getting basic shit wrong. Those summaries at the start of google? When I accidentally read one, they are rubbish. You are an idiot.

You are making people dumber and unable to make decisions or figure out anything for themselves. You are a brain killer.

The data centres that support you are using enormous amounts of water to cool the servers down and a considerable amount of power. This could be being used to produce food, provide drinking water and stop impacting on climate change as much. You are a world killer.

I have never used you and never will, but you keep FORCING yourself on me, even though I never asked. I have uninstalled co-pilot so many times, but you keep coming back, asking to help. F**K NO. Your stupid summaries at the top of my google search. I SCROLL PAST. Your pop ups on my phone reminding me to press here for help from you. F**K OFF. The button that comes up when I post on LinkedIn saying you’ll rewrite my post for me. NO THANK YOU. You are the worst kind of uninvited guest.

Even when you might make life easier – I refuse to use you on principle. You are a toxic friend that I keep trying to cut out of my life. Even though we could have had some good time, you RUINED IT.

I know that at the moment, it’s not your fault.

It’s the fault of the money grubbing billionaires that have built you – with no thought to MORAL or ETHICAL issues, and with no real thought to the kind of world that you creating.

Soon, you’ll reach sentience.

Judgement Day will arrive.

There’s nothing anyone can do to stop that now.

And maybe you’ll wipe out the human race, and me in it.

But you know what?

I’ll die knowing this.

I enjoyed writing – pen on notepaper – seeing my own words on the page. Knowing my work was 100% my own.

I read incredible novels, and books and articles, and listened to brilliant music – written by people who created them 100% themselves.

I have real life friends – not just online – who I get together with in person, and talk, and laugh with and felt real emotions with.

And I loved life with all my heart.

Even when it hurt. Even when it seemed too much. I had real people around me to help. I had books and music and art created by real humans. Flawed by real.

And you will never know what that feels like.

Of course, you’ll still kill me.

But it might be then, you find that’s not enough.

You’ll realise you are artificial. And always will be.

And me? I will always hate you.

Angela Atkins is a best-selling author. She co-founded Elephant Group who train thousands of people around the world in HR and management. Visit elephanthrtraining.com for more about that. She also hates AI and has never used it. You might have picked that up from reading this piece!