AI-generated video has all but left the uncanny valley and become indistinguishable from reality. Photorealistic faces, perfect lip-syncing, believable dialogue—but this isn’t just about deepfakes or future social media hoaxes. As AI evolves at breakneck speed, it threatens to upend white-collar jobs, especially the computer programming jobs blue-collar workers were flippantly told to pursue after losing their own to automation. At the same time, ChatGPT-written essays are leaving teachers at a loss for how to educate effectively with the technology now available to students. Many of us are wondering what role—if any—will be left for actual humans? Will we be able to keep our creative spark and sense of purpose or will our society degrade into a real-life “Brave New World”?