Conclusion: most of us don't need AI in the same way most of us don't need a chainsaw.

"We’re all mostly just regular people interacting with other regular people, trying to go about our business and get through our days. Nobody’s asking us to index and catalog entire libraries of information. Nobody really cares if we reuse a stock photo that somebody else might have used somewhere else at some point. We’re not so busy that we need everything predigested before it’s presented to us. We’re still clever enough to work our way through unfamiliar problems. Some of us, I would have to think, still possess the ability and the desire to produce some sort of output in our chosen medium without relinquishing creative control to AI."

I disagree, you're not including mental fatigue. I can say something like "I have a server OS upgrade that needs to be done by X date. The server uses XYZ technologies. Here is the list of stakeholders and their roles. Design me an assessment and implementation plan and outline the key milestones and their dates." Could I think through that myself? Yes but it may take a couple hours. I just got 85% of the planning work done in 2 minutes.