This essay reflects on the spiritual cost of artificial intelligence and the urgency to develop moral depth as technology accelerates. Drawing on Rudolf Steiner and Goethe, it asks: will our ethical growth keep pace with our machines?

Artificial intelligence is not just a tool — it’s a mirror.

It shows us who we are… and who we risk no longer being.

In an age of automation, we must nurture imagination, silence, and presence.

What’s at stake isn’t just progress —

it’s the soul of progress.

— Gilberto Castro