AI

 The first thing to recognize about AI is the A. We humans have the “I” of intelligence and the “I” of imagination. That’s where AI came from. AI is a product of our time, a time in which we’ve created expansive technology to do our human work. We want speed and efficiency to give us more leisure and more time for ourselves. AI, like all technology, will intrude into lives in unexpected ways.

What we forget is that the right kind of work gives us discipline. And the more the work involves hand, eye and mind, the more fully we develop ourselves. So, for example, students who pay top dollar for a college education, then use AI to write their essays, are depriving themselves of the very exercises that develop writing and critical thinking.

I want the work I do to represent my own effort, ideas, thinking and imagination. We can’t be seduced into letting technology deprive us of the things that make us human—imagination, hard work, failure, pride in accomplishment.