There are countless things I do not know.
No matter how many times one lives, it is impossible to experience everything the world has to offer. Even what we once experienced is often forgotten, leaving only a small fraction of usable knowledge at any given moment.
Looking back, I realize that as a high school student I sometimes pretended to know more than I actually did. I was not aware of it myself, but a close friend pointed it out to me. At the time, I barely understood what “pretending to know” even meant.
It took many years before I truly understood how little I know. The phrase “knowing one’s ignorance” appeared in my ethics textbooks, but it remained an abstract concept rather than a lived realization.
When I first started this blog, I may have written based on vague memories. Later, with the rise of Google search, I learned to verify information as I wrote. Today, with the help of AI, I can examine a far broader range of topics. For academic writing in particular, AI-based checking has become indispensable for me.
In that sense, traditional quiz shows may eventually fade away.
However, this does not mean handing everything over to AI.
The starting point is always one’s own experience—limited, but real. AI can expand that experience, help verify it, organize it, and amplify it. Without experience, meaningful dialogue with AI cannot exist.
By returning what is gained through this process back to human society, further progress may be possible.
No one knows how high the Tower of Babel called AI will rise. Yet I hope that decisions about how to use it—and where to stop—will remain in human hands. At the very least, it should not be a tower built by abandoning human experience, but one grounded in human reality and kept within a controllable height.
