The Internet was created to connect people, to bring them closer, quickly and directly. Now, it is learning to live without them. Data and machines are the protagonists of this era. Algorithms and artificial intelligence languages play the role of the creator and, although they still remain under our control (faithfully following our prompts), their tendency toward autonomy is growing.

But is the age of artificial intelligence the end of human presence on the Internet? No. It is simply the end of its exclusivity. For the first time, the Internet is filled with content that does not require a human hand to exist. Texts, images, videos, comments appear before us — and they are not handmade.

And yet, this does not mean that human creation loses its value; it means it gains new meaning. When everything can be produced, what matters is not the production itself, but the intention, the concept, the vision, the approach.

Artificial intelligence does not replace imagination; it gives it more tools. The algorithm has no desire, no anxiety, no feelings — and is not expected to develop them. That is where we come in: human beings who, unlike any other natural or artificial entity, can feel. AI can write a novel, but it cannot give meaning to a life story. Nor can it be moved by one.

Machines can predict, but they cannot admire. They can answer, but they cannot think.

The Internet truly is changing — not because humans will disappear, but because the way they exist within it will change. Google is already trying to explain to publishers and businesses that we will no longer search for answers in the same way. We will continue to seek them (as we have since the first day humans appeared on Earth), but with different tools.

Hasn’t it always been that way? Once, people looked at the sky with the naked eye and drew arbitrary conclusions; today, the life of an atom is simulated to analyze life itself in detail.

Perhaps, then, the “age after humans” is the moment when humans stop fearing the machine and see it as a means to reach the ultimate goal: understanding what happens around them. Let us not forget that the Internet itself once awakened fears and primal instincts when it first appeared — but taming it led humanity to its greatest progress of all time.

Artificial intelligence is not something we should fear either. But we must learn to tame it as well — as we have done with so many things throughout human history.