A tool, not a mentor

When it’s appropriate, a good mentor has the ability to advise: “You can figure this out by yourself,” or, “I think you already know the answer to your question.”

ChatGPT and other AI models aren’t typically trained to do this. They’re designed to provide answers, not to remove themselves from the process.

And sometimes what we need is to be redirected inward. To seek our answers not from the Robot, but from within. We might even learn that our questions have no answers. Sitting with that tension could be the very thing we need to do.