The hidden cost of being alive, and why AI will never pay it. Press enter or click to view image in full size Photo by Igor Omilaev on Unsplash I have been using AI Chatbots regularly for the last 9 months. I have a paid subscription to Gemini, and work affords me access to Microsoft Copilot and Claude Enterprise. As a Product Manager, I have significantly accelerated my content generation, gathering research and writing documents in a fraction of the time it used to take. As a father of teenagers, I use it to summarize emails and news, freeing up time to spend more time with them. As I stand here working deeper with AI, I wonder. How can an AI read a 60-page paper and summarize it in 30 seconds when it takes me an hour just to get through the abstract? It’s a fair question, and honestly, the answer is more interesting than most people expect. It comes down to one fundamental difference between humans and machines, and no, it’s not raw computing power. It’s the overhead.…