shouldn’t have said this!

I shouldn’t have said this…

Well but I couldn’t resist it.

Last week I went to a friend’s book launch in Lisbon.

She used to run one of the UK government’s first AI programmes. Back when nobody cared about this stuff.

It wasn’t fancy. A tiny bookstore-turned-event space. Maybe forty people. 

Writers, designers, freelancers, remote workers – the usual Lisbon mix. People who live off their laptops and somehow all ended up here.

After her talk, we opened it up for discussion.

And it got dark fast.

Everyone started talking about how AI is destroying jobs…

Replacing artists…

Killing creativity….

Same story, different mouths.

A pianist said AI had taken her future. 

…But then admitted she’d hated the classical music world for years.

A designer said AI was replacing her. 

…But then shrugged and said Canva had already done that long ago.

So I listened.

Then I said – as politely as I could:

“With all due respect, everyone here is an expat or a remote worker. 

None of us would even be in Lisbon if the last big wave of change hadn’t happened. 

The internet, online marketing, remote work – that’s what gave us this life. 

And people said the same things back then.

That books were dead. 

That TV was over.

That proper jobs were finished. 

But the world didn’t end. It just changed shape. And this AI wave?

It’s the same story again.”

Silence.

Then a woman from Malaysia spoke. She works in robotics.

She said, “Because of AI, people in my country can finally access real education. 

They can learn English, digital skills, start online businesses.

It’s literally creating opportunities that never existed before.”

And that landed.

Because the fear that night wasn’t really about AI.

It was about change.

The same kind that once brought us the internet. 

Then social media.

Then remote work.

Each one started with panic. Ended with freedom.

AI is just the next one.

That’s what we’re building inside Hyper Entrepreneur – tools and systems that help you use the shift instead of fighting it.

Something built to help you see what’s actually possible when you stop resisting AI and start working with it.

The future isn’t out to get you.

It’s inviting you in.

Darius