AI can cut and generate video now, should I fear it or dismiss it?

AI can cut, caption, and even conjure video from nothing, and you meet it with a shrug or a knot of fear. Both are ways of not really looking at it. The tool is neither beneath your notice nor the end of your work. It is a fast, tireless helper that is genuinely good at some things and empty at others. Dismiss it and you fall behind people using it to move faster. Fear it and you freeze while the world moves. The steadier path is to look straight at it, learn what it does well, the grunt work, the rough drafts, and see plainly where it falls short, taste, story, the choices that make an edit yours. It generates footage; it does not know what is worth showing. Spend an hour this week actually using one of these tools on real work. Feel where it helps and where it flattens everything into sameness. You will come out neither dismissive nor afraid, but clear, and clarity is what lets you use the tool instead of being unsettled by it.