Why Gen X Is the Perfect Generation to Adopt AI As Artists & Professionals

Generation X learned the world through card catalogs and rotary phones, then spent every year since teaching itself the next machine — dial-up, cloud, now the ones that write back. That amphibian training, not any credential, is the real argument here: it's why Gen X is positioned to lead AI adoption without either worshipping the tool or refusing it. The essay works through what that leadership looks like in creative practice, and in the unglamorous, unavoidable work of getting a company's data honest before any of it can be automated.