Today, AI can impressively help anyone to write and read in almost any language. This allows a surface-level exchange of ideas, but comes at a steep price: the loss of honest engagement with the magic organ that makes us human. The challenges of learning a new language are exactly why it is still so important to do so in the AI era. Recently I’ve received many emails in flawless English from Chinese readers of my writings. At first I was amazed at such readers’ superb English, but soon I