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What’s the point of the above post? If you’re reading this, you’re early, and even the experts don’t know what they are doing. This is messy for everyone, and there’s still a ton of opportunity. No doom and gloom here, we’re doing optimism.
The AI Economy Is One of Abundance
The following articles breakdown the economics of AI, which modern media continues to paint as a hellscape where we create a “permanent underclass.” Big disagree.
I think it’s important to fight the AI slander so I’ve summarized the articles below.
Article 1: AI will make things much cheaper (through automation), and in doing that human-ness will become scarce. The economy will reorganize around that scarcity (i.e. things that are uniquely human). If you make something high-quality and valuable (as a creator, a consultant, a business, etc.) you will be well paid. If you provide a specific skill, like a teacher, fitness coach, nurse, etc., you will be better paid the better your skill (because it will be increasingly scarce).
Article 2: The thing that makes you unique — your judgement and taste — will become something you can sell. Your unique perspective is going to be a commodity (who would have thought failed companies could sell their Slack channel conversations but here we are). Bottom line: focus on your personal IP (and start building context in your AI system).
Article 3: If the jobs transition happens slowly, it will give workers time to adapt. If it happens fast, it will be chaotic and painful. If you operate in the policy space in any way you should start talking about the changes we can and must make to our economic and labor systems to soften the blow and set people up for success. Everyone is choosing to fear-monger instead. If you step up and lead, you’ll become a powerful voice.
Check out this beautiful vision for our future where things are cheaper and people work less:
Being A Human Is Still Your Greatest Asset
New research finds that an over-reliance on AI for thinking and tasks degrades memory, erodes expertise, and inflates confidence. If we want to avoid that we’ll need to: preserve and protect education and apprenticeships, strength our judgment, and demand greater oversight of AI (in whatever institution we operate within).
As AI makes everyone faster and eliminates tedious work, what will be left is lots of decision-making. This requires more brain power and judgment. We will all need to improve our thinking processes, meaning we’ll need to go for more walks, spend more time in silence, be more curious.
Final thought from this piece: “The people who will thrive are not those who use AI the most, but those who can still think without it. The institutions that will matter are not those that adopt AI fastest, but those that preserve the human capabilities AI cannot replace.”
Once again, your humanness is vital in all of this.
The AWS Of Intelligence
What Amazon did in cloud computing, Sam Altman wants to do for intelligence. He sees a future where OpenAI’s intelligence is so cheap and accessible any business can tap into it on-demand like electricity. The same way that businesses use AWS to host literally everything, he wants to host whatever you build (aka become the intelligence layer on top of which all things are built). This increasingly feels like where we’ll be going, especially given growing cost concerns.
Next week I’ll outline how I implemented a layer of AI into my business and some of the most common challenges and benefits it provides.
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