We’re inundated with AI everywhere we look, and many people in my circles are over seeing it pop up in every digital interface we use.
Its existence, the existence we have created, by default, suggests that our human skills, thoughts, and processes aren’t entirely adequate. It suggests that we should cut and paste our natural phrases, skills, and abilities — the parts of us that make us human.
Sure, our ways of working could be improved. But was there even an issue before AI waved its hands around and said, "Find me something to do?"
I’m not gaining much value from Apple’s AI assistant summarising my emails. It summarises the whole thread, not the latest email, and therefore gives incorrect summaries. Did I even need a summary of an entire email thread? No, no, I didn’t.
I use ChatGPT to help me search the web and correct my wafty paragraphs, but there is an essence of ‘me’ and ‘my’ ways of writing and sharing that is being lost in the process. I am sure recruiters, in particular, are getting a lot of job applications that are starting to sound like group think.
It’s scary to think that we’re all becoming the same person, expressing ourselves through a type of course correction.
Perhaps one positive aspect is that we’re making human skills more valuable by adopting AI. Maybe that’s what AI is here to show us: that being human is irreplaceable and we can appreciate what makes us so.
As with any problem, I’d ask a key (design thinking) question: What’s the problem we’re trying to solve?
Was this post written using AI? Guess 🙂
