Human Curation in the Age of AI
August 5, 2025
Human Curation in the Age of AI
While AI can simulate technique with perfection, refined curation remains a distinctly human skill. This is an invitation to think about taste, discernment, and how to cultivate them with intentionality and depth.
Ira Glass once described this moment where our taste develops faster than our technical abilities. We know what’s good, but we can’t yet create it ourselves. A gap that creates frustration, but it also drives us to continued practice. I’ve been thinking about how this plays out in our AI era, where the technical gap is closing rapidly, but something else remains distinctly ours.
As Andrea Grigsby put it perfectly: AI can simulate our tools, but it can’t reach our taste. The algorithms can master technique, but discernment—that’s still human territory.
We’ve linked to at least a few articles in taste since starting Elsewhere at the beginning of 2024. As we address the impact of LLMs on professional practice, one questions comes up frequently–what is it that is uniquely human, the things that machine will replace last? One suggestion is taste.
Here Henrique Iamarino reflects on what taste is and how to develop it (other articles we’ve linked also consider this topic.)
