"They spend all day in their rooms and aren't interested in doing things with us," laments Pedro, the father of two teenage boys, ages 13 and 15. Both he and his partner, Marta, are getting used to this new stage. "Adolescence has such a bad reputation that you get a little scared, but it's not that bad," admits the mother, although she acknowledges that they are still adjusting.

A few years ago, psychologist and neuroscientist Alba Cardalda (Barcelona, ​​1989) uploaded a video to Instagram to answer a simple question: how do you politely get someone to go to hell? Rosa dels Vents saw it and asked her for a book to try to answer it. How to get shit started politely (2025), which has placed among the best-selling non-fiction books in Catalan this past Sant Jordi.

1. Simplicity. No two humans are alike. This reality is expressed in all types of relationships, including creativity. We humans create from the complexity of our condition: a body that lives in relationship, an intelligence, perceptions, sensations, feelings, a sensitivity that makes each of us a unique relational animal. Affection defines our relationships with one another. Uniqueness is transmitted in all areas of life and in the creation of symbols. For many years now, in The intimate sense (1982) explored the forms of this relationship: love, artistic creation, intuition, the construction of singularities, so to speak. Does AI overflow this world? Will it leave space for the human condition or will it envelop us from its presumed capacity to do creative work for us? Will there still be artists or will they be AI feeders? Artificial intelligence sounds to me like a contradiction in terms. Or, worse, a certain desire to expropriate humans' singularity.