We Banned the Soul from the Building: On AI, Spiritual Life, and Sustainable Practices for Writing

The article explores what human writers uniquely contribute compared to artificial intelligence (AI).

While AI can analyze vast amounts of text and generate syntactically correct sentences, it lacks the capacity for genuine longing, grief, or ethical self-interrogation.

These traits are tied to the human soul, a concept the article defines as the source of emotional depth, lived experience, and spiritual connection in writing.

For example, AI cannot mourn a lost loved one or yearn for something unnamed, as it does not possess lived experience or emotional memory.

The article highlights that while AI improves technologically, it will never replicate the human soul’s role in creating meaningful, authentic writing.