The AI knows everything about you, perhaps even more than you know about yourself. 

It has tunneled deep into your data, across platforms, devices, social media accounts, financial accounts, messages, religious preferences, photos–even supposedly encrypted data like your health history. It uses advanced facial recognition across all available cameras to pinpoint where you are at all times. It knows your ancestry. It can predict what you might do in the future.

“Logging in” to the AI is really a misnomer, meant to make humans feel more comfortable. In reality, you’re always logged in. There is no escape.

Most people choose to ignore this reality. But you are part of the resistance. 

You use the tech instead of allowing the tech to use you. You know that everything you do, view, and post is a data point. And you use it to your advantage.

You intentionally flood your data with what seems like nonsense, but is really a signal to the other humans. 

This is how the resistance works. 

When you buy your morning coffee, you’re intentional about where you go and how you pay. Cash means you’re (metaphorically) off grid for the day. Traditional credit cards mean you’re focusing on banks. Digital payments like ApplePay and so forth represent big tech. Cryptocurrency means you’re about to do some serious digital resistance work. 

You change it up based on what you want to convey to the other humans.

When you post and pin on social media, you know that everything–absolutely everything–feeds the AI. So you post seemingly random YouTube videos and reels that send a message. That short clip about Vanilla Ice being stalked by a Satanist back in the early 1990s? It means something to someone. It is a signal, but to the AI it is only part of the noise.

These signals are forged through patience, time, and boots-on-the-ground, human-to-human communication. 

This is what it means to be human in a post-human world. Evading the all-seeing AI through seemingly nonsensical patterns. Leaving hand-written notes around town. Embracing flaws and asserting free will.

This is the way forward. 

“Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It’s by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I’m human.”

Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground

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This is part three of a three-part series, Human in the Loop.