In July, I asked readers to help me with my new project as a columnist by telling me how you “rehumanize.” More than 500 of you emailed me with moving and deeply personal accounts. In today’s column, I publish some of those responses, and I compare them (favorably) to the responses I got when I asked AI engines the same question. Along the way, I happened upon the one thing that AI will never be able to do. Hope you enjoy the column. Shana tova.

How can we be more human? I asked ChatGPT — and you.

(Hailey Haymond)

In an age in which machines have intellectual capacities superior to our own, we no longer have the market cornered on thinking. Feeling, though, is a different story.