What Experience Should Humans Keep in the AI Age?
- 京都全身矯正専門ハッピーカイロプラクティック整体東寺駅前
- Aug 24
- 3 min read
What Kind of “Experience” Should Humans Keep in the Age of AI?
— A Chiropractor’s Perspective —
These days, I often think about how quickly AI and robots are advancing.
Massage robots, pressure robots, even robots whisking matcha tea are already here. Step by step, technology is taking over what humans used to do by hand. In ten years, rehabilitation or even some orthopedic treatments may be performed by machines.
This makes me wonder: what will happen to the value of national licenses and qualifications?
In the past, people believed, “If a licensed professional is in the clinic, it must be safe.” But if AI and robots can measure every angle and pressure more precisely than humans, society may begin to feel that machines are actually “safer” than people.
What only humans can do
Still, no matter how advanced AI becomes, there is one thing only humans can build: real experience.
By “experience,” I do not mean just data or statistics. I mean:
Actually touching another person.
Noticing subtle differences that cannot be measured by sensors.
Questioning AI’s judgment based on past cases.
Knowing when to stop because something feels wrong, even in the gray zone.
AI can calculate the most probable answer. But AI cannot sense that tiny “something might be off.” That human sense—built through trial, error, and real contact—will only become more valuable in the future.
A challenge for younger generations
I worry about children who are now in elementary school. When they become adults, AI will already be everywhere. Even if they study hard and earn licenses like acupuncture or judo therapy, they may not have many chances to practice by hand.
This problem has already begun. In some large clinics, new acupuncturists rarely insert a single needle. Instead, they operate machines such as low-frequency therapy devices, or simply do massage. They graduate with skills, but lose the chance to practice them.
If AI continues to replace real practice, young professionals will not develop the ability to judge those “gray areas.” And when that skill is lost, the risk of mistakes in healthcare and body care becomes much higher.
How can we keep building experience?
In the age of AI, the answer is simple: we need human-to-human learning again.
I believe practical training seminars will become even more important.
Seminars using practice patients, to feel subtle differences in real bodies.
Case studies that teach how to handle the “gray zones.”
Workshops that share not only techniques but also philosophy, story, and tradition.
These are things no AI can provide. They are the only true education that keeps the heart of healthcare alive.
In conclusion
As a chiropractor, I have spent many years working with people. I know the frustration of seeing limits, the power of large medical systems, and the smallness of what one pair of hands can do. Yet, I also know the irreplaceable value of human-to-human connection.
In the age of AI, what must remain is human experience itself.
Not only how to perform a technique, but how to build, share, and pass on experience.
If AI takes away our hands, then humans must become the teachers of experience.
That is how we will continue to survive, and continue to matter, in the AI age.
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