Two posts hit me this morning. In one, there was a LI post that asked about what will be the next ChatGPT moment in AI. In another, Audrey Watters posted in her newsletter about AI not necessarily making our lives better, and how we all should be doubling down on strengthening our human capacities for humanity. My thinking is that one of the next AI moments is going to be when a monumental disaster strikes that will be directly or indirectly caused by AI. Perhaps it will be a data breach. As we feed unprecedented amounts of personal information into AI, including government information, there are huge incentives to crack open those databases. Perhaps it will be a decision. We know AI makes mistakes, and the expression we used to use was, "to err is human, but to really f*ck things up you need a computer." AI maginifies that as corporations, governments, and government agencies are relying AI to make decisions that affect the lives of millions. Perhaps it will be unscrupulous use of AI to enrich a very few at the expense of all of us; using AI to deny benefits or services, to invoice, fine, tax, threaten, or perhaps to hide transfers of funds into the accounts of those running the AI. Or maybe a perfect storm of all three. But it's bound to happen. And the most likely outcome is that there will be a few scapegoats who get punished and our our tech titans and governing class be able to conduct "business as usual" because they got rid of the few bad apples that caused a crisis that no one could have foreseen or prepared for. For the rest of us, let's double down on strengthening our human capacities for humanity and building our islands of coherence. |
Mindshifting is recognizing and shifting from the mindsets that hold us back to the mindsets that push us forward. I write about mindsets, Mindshifting, learning, and education, with the hope that these posts give readers more power over their own lives and helps them give others, like their students, more power as well.
Learning releases jolts of dopamine and endorfins, just like having fun does. Here are my seven shots on Sunday. Experience 1: my B team tennis doubles team match was scheduled for 1:30. On the way over, it started to rain a little. Arrived at the court just as I received the text message, match canceled. Experience 2: as we are all talking the rain lets up. The pro announces the matches are back on. I let on that I’m not comfortable if the lines are wet and slippery, but the pro assures me...
Sorry about yesterday's broken link I'm not sure why, but the link yesterday didn't work. Instead of linking again, here is the whole article. I'm training a series of AI coaches for an online version of the MindShifting: Stop Your Brain from Sabotaging Your Happiness and Success book. The goal is to have the AI coach respond as if I were having a conversation with someone. Here is our most recent interaction which was based on the "Perhaps I Can" technique, AI Coach: Welcome! I'm Rishi, and...
I'm training a series of AI coaches for an online version of the MindShifting: Stop Your Brain from Sabotaging Your Happiness and Success book. Here is our most recent interaction