From the course: Smarter Thinking and Better Living in an AI World: A Conversation with Daniel Pink

What is most exciting and concerning about AI in our lives?

From the course: Smarter Thinking and Better Living in an AI World: A Conversation with Daniel Pink

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What is most exciting and concerning about AI in our lives?

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- What excites you most and what concerns you most about AI's potential to shape how we live more purposeful and fulfilling lives? - My concern, I think, is over-reliance on it, is that people will rely on it more and that what we're going to get is everybody turning out more stuff that's essentially the same level of pretty good, but not necessarily amazing quality, that all is kind of very similar to each other. So it's going to have a kind of, the homogenization at a B plus level of work product. As a writer, one of the things that I've always known is that writing is a form of thinking. It helps you figure things out. It helps you discover something new that hasn't been said before. And so if you're relying on these tools to do all your writing, it's just going to essentially give you a recapitulation of things that have been said before. So you're going to lose that thinking muscle. And that's another concern that I have. But if you look at it as a thinking partner, then I think it strengthens your thinking muscle. And so you can look at it, you know, it's really, so much of it comes down to how we use it and what our intention is behind that use. - Right. And then in terms of accelerants or exciting things, you've mentioned the ability to focus, the ability to expand, having that coach, that collaborator, that companion, that person at the water cooler, all of those things integrated into the ways that you naturally recommend leveling up. - For very, very low cost and very, very fast. - Yes. - And to the point where it will, it's going to change our muscle memory in the way that search engines changed our muscle memory or texting changed our muscle memory. You're just going to (mouth pops) turn to it. And again, used judiciously, I think it's a really, really amazing tool.

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