Late night thoughts about AI…

Common convo starts to the AI issue:

“AI does _______”

“AI is replacing ______”

“I created this using AI and ________”

“Check out this short video I made with AI”

Somewhere along the way we have forgotten that AI doesn’t create. AI is a creation of humans. Humans keep making AI tools that humans use. We don’t have an AI problem. We have 3 overlooked issues instead:

1) Humans are foolish enough to make a job replacing technology without first figuring out where all the newly unemployed people will find work.

2) We keep blaming AI as if it is somehow the agent making the changes.

3) The more people use AI, the more it is being trained to do more of our jobs.

If you are one of the people using the notion that embracing AI tools now makes you a leader in some new successful leading edge, you are quite literally training your replacement with every prompt.

Really what AI is, is a shovel. And we keep using it to dig ourselves into a hole that we can’t climb out of.