Virgin Islands policy strategist and community advocate Moleto A. Smith Jr. argues in this September 16, 2026 op-ed that the more consequential question about AI is not what the technology will eventually be capable of, but what living alongside it will reveal about human nature itself. He frames AI’s emergence as another chapter in a recurring human pattern in which mystery leads to knowledge, knowledge leads to discovery, and discovery opens onto new mystery. The piece is a reflective, philosophical meditation from a non-technologist’s vantage point rather than a policy, risk, or industry analysis.
