Here's the thing about AI and social transformation—it doesn't have to mimic human cognition to reshape how we organize information and society itself.

Look back at history. The printing press didn't think. The internet didn't contemplate. Yet both completely rewired how knowledge flows, who accesses it, and what becomes possible. Technologies that reorganize the architecture of information? They're the real game-changers.

AI is doing something similar right now. It's not about consciousness or thinking like humans. It's about recoding how data gets processed, distributed, and acted upon. That shift alone—that structural reorganization—is powerful enough to cascade through markets, industries, and social systems.

The takeaway: don't fixate on whether machines think. Watch what they reorganize.