Reflections on an odd recent experience with AI and imagination. “What felt true to me then and now is that if we become accustomed to outsourcing imagination — with or without consent — we risk atrophying the muscles and relationships needed for collective visioning, make our psyches and lives increasingly vulnerable to anti-life and anti-empathy agendas, and forget our capacity and sacred obligation to imagine and seed futures beyond what the oppressive powers and systems of our time would have us see.”