Hello!

We are in January 2026. This date is important because it marks the definitive end of the "Honeymoon Phase" of AI. The era of using AI merely as a "glorified spell-checker" or a "chatty search engine" is over. We have moved from Generative AI (tools that talk) to Agentic AI (tools that act). This is the AI revolution!

My name is Anca Penghis. I am a 50-year-old project manager, divorced, raising two children, two daughters of 15 and 16 years old. We are living in a different country than the one we were born. Having already crossed borders between nations, I am now focused on crossing the border between the machine age and the conscious age. We live now in Western Europe and we benefit from all the advantages that this time of prosperity and this well-developed geographic area is offering: access to technology, nice housing, safe well-paid job, high quality health and insurance services and high flexibility and freedom to work and travel together with my daughters. As a parent I intend to bring my daughters perspective also, as well as my parenting perspective while guiding my children build their future in an AI world.

Why I am doing this

In 2026, we are at a crossroads. As AI automates our logic and our labour, it is forcing us to confront a vital question: What is left when the machine can do everything that we were taught was valuable?

I created The Growth Journeys because I believe the speed of change nowadays in the world is so high that we lose track on where we were just a short time ago. I also believe in the next years we will be witnessing major changes on humans society as a whole. I am choosing to be a correspondent of the transition to a new era—one where Humanity is more valuable than Intelligence.

As a living witness with high integrative capacity, I am going to share my opinions, thoughts and experience of living the AI revolution and express it from a psychological perspective.

I am also using AI as a tool to help me manage this website.