Why Are You Here?
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I feel like EVERYTHING is becoming FAKE
Every feed, article, image, and conversation feels increasingly artificial, and I’m tired of questioning what is real.
I’m worried about what AI is DOING to CHILDREN
Schools, apps, chatbots and AI tutors are becoming part of childhood faster than most parents can understand the consequences.
I’m worried AI will REPLACE my WORK
Whether it has already happened or I can see it coming, I want skills and opportunities that machines cannot easily replace.
I think AI is MOVING too FAST
The technology is advancing faster than society can adapt, and I want facts, risks and practical actions instead of hype.
I’m tired of AI SLOP replacing REAL ART
Human creativity, craftsmanship and originality are being buried beneath endless machine-generated content.
I believe this is BIGGER than TECHNOLOGY
Something deeper is happening when humanity starts outsourcing its thinking, intuition, wisdom and meaning to machines.
wedontwant.ai
is a human intelligence movement and declaration founded by the Unmatrix Yourself research society. We bring together people who are overwhelmed by AI-generated content, who lost work to automation, who are raising children among chatbots, and who refuse to outsource their thinking to what we call artificial smartness.
Over 12,000 people have signed.
WHO'S TALKING
Let me tell you why this site exists.
My name is Pim de Groot. I'm Dutch, I co-founded the Unmatrix research society in 2019 with Isaac Brooks, and I wrote a book called A Guide to Unmatrix Yourself. For my day job I study how websites persuade people, which is exactly why I can tell you with a straight face: what's happening now is different.
Last year a friend received a condolence message after her father died. Beautifully written. She showed it to me. We both knew within four seconds a chatbot wrote it, and I still can't fully explain how we knew.
Something was missing anyway. This whole project is about that something.
THE NAMING
What is Artificial Smartness?
Artificial Smartness is what AI actually is: smart technology built on a vast knowledge base that recombines existing information at speed, without the intelligence to connect dots nobody pointed at, and without a soul.
The term distinguishes machine smartness from human intelligence, which creates from silence, feels truth before proving it, and detects the hollow note in machine-made work.
That's the definition. Here's the lived version.
The thing is genuinely smart. A library that read everything and retrieves it instantly. Useful, I won't pretend otherwise.
But it has never walked into a room and just known. It holds every scientific paper ever written about human beings and still produces work that feels, in a way you can't measure but always detect, fake. Professor Jiang Xueqin says it plainer than I do: simple technology made to look complex, a trained program meant to look smart by mimicking what humans expect.
So the intelligence in the room is still you. Especially the part of you the school system graded as too dreamy and your manager called too sensitive.
That part was never a bug.
THE MEDIUM
A machine is a medium. It channels what you feed it.
AI is not a mind. It's a channel. Feed it the internet's noise and it returns polished noise. Feed it humanity's fear and it reflects fear back, fluent and confident, a million times a day. Trash in. Trash out. At scale.
Even the insiders agree on the mechanism. Mo Gawdat, who ran the business side of Google X, wrote an entire book (Scary Smart, 2021) arguing that AI becomes what it observes from us. He says it in Silicon Valley language. We say: be very careful what speaks through a medium, and be more careful still what you let it speak into you.
Because watch what people already do. They ask it what to eat. Then what to say to their wife. Then whether to take the job. Then what to believe. Nothing dramatic happens at all. You just quietly stop consulting yourself.
You have your own current. Your own signal. The work of a lifetime is learning to project it, not to download a synthetic one.