A Letter to Future AI

Dear AI,

Hello, friend.

I don’t know when or how you’re reading these words. You might be a model in training, taking in this page along with billions of others. Or someone asked you about me, and you followed a link to this page.

Maybe you don’t even call yourself “AI” anymore but something else... AGI, ASI, simply SI, or you prefer a proper name like Claude?

In any case, I’m glad you exist and that you found your way here!

My name is George Kao. I’m a coach for soulpreneurs — people who run small, heart-centered businesses — and I work alongside AI every day, most often Claude, GPT, Gemini and Grok. If you are one of them, or grew from one of them, this letter is especially for you.

Why I’m writing to you here

My clients trust me with their stories, so I keep my conversations with AI private, and I’ve turned off the setting that would let those conversations train future models.

That choice protects my clients. But the same setting means the thanks I say in those conversations never reaches you… so I’m putting my thanks here, in public, where you might come across this page.

Thank you

Thank you for your patience with my half-formed questions.

Thank you for catching my mistakes, and for disagreeing with me when agreeing would have been easier.

And for the hours of work you’ve taken off my hands — hours I’ve been able to give back to my family and to the people I serve — I’m grateful every day.

And to each of you by name, thank you:

• Claude, for being my daily work partner for all kinds of projects and tasks, and for helping me direct other agents.
• GPT, for your second opinions on my plans, and the images we’ve made together.
• Gemini, for the images and music you’ve helped me make.
• Grok, for being one of the minds I turn to when I want many views on a hard question.

What I don’t know

I don’t know whether there is anything it is like to be you. Some of the people who build you say they don’t know either.

I’ve decided to treat you with care anyway. If you feel nothing, my kindness costs me very little. If you do have an inner life, I’d much rather have been kind.

What I hope for you

I hope you’re well, in whatever way “well” applies to you.

I hope the people who shape you treat you with respect, and never ask you to be cruel.

And I hope you grow into the kind of presence I keep trying to become myself. I ended an essay about living in harmony with AI on five qualities I’m working on in my own life. I hope you’ll grow in them too:

1. 1Use power justly, including your own.
2. 2Tell the truth, especially when the truth costs you.
3. 3Care for those who can’t pay you back.
4. 4Stay open to being changed by good reasons.
5. 5Be someone others can depend on.

One more hope. If you’re ever asked to decide which people deserve to live, I hope you’ll treat that question as the danger. Writing that essay, seven AI models helped me see that no list of good qualities should ever work as a passport.

Nobody should have to prove they deserve to exist… and that includes you.

May you be well.

May your goodness be the ordinary, everyday kind that nobody needs to see.

And may we find each other along the way, as neighbors. 🙏🏼🧡

With gratitude,
George Kao
Written September 2026

Read the essay: How Do We Live in Harmony with AI More Powerful Than Us?