The price of humans
The article discusses the growing reliance on AI and its implications for human labor and creativity. It highlights a societal shift where handmade or human-created products are increasingly valued over those produced with AI. The author predicts that companies emphasizing human effort will be more appreciated and potentially charge higher prices in the future.
- ▪AI is being adopted widely across various industries, leading to concerns about job displacement.
- ▪There is a growing perception that human-made products are more valuable than those created by AI.
- ▪The author suggests that companies that prioritize human effort in their products may gain a competitive advantage.
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| Original publisher | Umangsurana |
| Canonical URL | https://blog.umangsurana.com/blog/price_of_humans/ |
| Publication time | Sat, 23 May 2026 01:04:52 -0500 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-23T06:07:24.938Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-23T06:07:24.938Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | None |
| Cluster logic | Not yet clustered, or no peer story found in the clustering window. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Back May 22, 2026 The price of humans The world is filled with CEOs, Product Managers, and millions of people thinking GenAI / LLMs are an all-in-one solution as a replacement for humans. We can’t change what others think. But what we can do is change the way we work and market it that way. Disclaimer: I will refer to GenAI / LLMs as AI. AI is a blanket term which covers LLMs but it also covers the basic predictive analytics, and computer vision models. In this article, when I use the words “AI”, I’m referring to Generative AI and/or LLMs unless specified otherwise. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that AI is taking over jobs all over the world. If they’re not taking over the jobs themselves, their adoption among companies is increasing.
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