AI Distrust and Forward Progress
The more I think deeply about AI, the more I reflect on humanity and creativity and what our purpose here might be.
I understand feeling distrust for AI on principle. I’ve read so many blog posts from people who have various reasons for wishing AI didn’t work the way it does, didn’t use as much energy, didn’t crawl the web without permission, didn’t put people out of work, didn’t upend education, and so on.
For me, now that I’ve seen AI, I can’t un-see it. I can’t go about my life as if nothing has changed. In a world where machines are smarter than we are, what should we work on? Everyone will find value and happiness in different ways.
A well articulated post. My thoughts exactly here. I especially like this conclusion:
My gut feeling is that for the folks who do not change anything in response to AI, pretending that AI doesn’t exist, they will increasingly be unhappy. Not today, but eventually. Despite all the hype, the changes will creep up on us slowly over several years.