Recent research from MIT about AI usage has surfaced the problem of “Cognitive Debt.” It suggests that using AI for writing tasks could lead to lower mental engagement and a weaker sense of ownership over our ideas.
Love this. In my experience, tech tends to mirror the state I bring to it. When I’m clear and intentional, it can open amazing possibilities. When I’m reactive or distracted, it multiplies the noise. It reminds me to keep leaning into the state I want to be in.
George - this is excellent! And right on. AI can help us do our job better if we let it and use it well. I have started writing my prompts to include instructions for AI to ask me for more direction or personal input if it thinks it needs it. i am liking the results so far. I have a long way to go to use it well. I like your guidelines!
I think the biggest challenge with AI is training young people that the AI is a computer, and not actually thinking for itself. It cannot do what a human can do...higher order logical reasoning with creativity. Young people need to know that or they enter into a world with fake parameters. For example, I asked AI to find contact information for a potential speaker I wanted to approach for my summit. The AI had initially given me the name of that person (AI good) but then told me that on so and so publicly listed resource, contact info was not available. I went to so and so resource and clicked around and found a phone number that went right to the person's answering machine! (AI limited). As you know, I also recently asked the AI a question about its own interface (would my chat be anonymized in your AI) and it couldn't answer. I use AI for research, but kids need to know, as when using Wikipedia, that they must take all answers as potentially false and double check everything.
OMG, George, you are so speaking my heart and language. Yes, YES, YES!!! What's really cool to me is that all of the suggestions you mention at the end, I'm already doing! It's so liberating and helpful to have ai partners who can show up with my creativity and spark my curiosity to connect patterns and think about things in different ways. From distilling my journal entries after a recent psilocybin journey and helping me design a jewelry piece to integrate and support that experience TO tracking missed spots of exploration with clients or doing the work of smoothing out the larger themes and patterns in my writing and content to help it feel like ME and connect with more cohesiveness (sorry, excited, major run-on sentences!). It's still so important to have real experiences and get real people's feedback and more lived experience data, but it just frees up so much for me to build and grow things and ideas without the constraints of certain skill sets that aren't my forte. The idea itself becomes the muse, and I'm just playing with its energy.
Soulpreneur! Love that term. I'm gonna check out Delphi. 🫶
Love this. In my experience, tech tends to mirror the state I bring to it. When I’m clear and intentional, it can open amazing possibilities. When I’m reactive or distracted, it multiplies the noise. It reminds me to keep leaning into the state I want to be in.
George - this is excellent! And right on. AI can help us do our job better if we let it and use it well. I have started writing my prompts to include instructions for AI to ask me for more direction or personal input if it thinks it needs it. i am liking the results so far. I have a long way to go to use it well. I like your guidelines!
Thanks Steve! 🙏🏼
Great article George
I think the biggest challenge with AI is training young people that the AI is a computer, and not actually thinking for itself. It cannot do what a human can do...higher order logical reasoning with creativity. Young people need to know that or they enter into a world with fake parameters. For example, I asked AI to find contact information for a potential speaker I wanted to approach for my summit. The AI had initially given me the name of that person (AI good) but then told me that on so and so publicly listed resource, contact info was not available. I went to so and so resource and clicked around and found a phone number that went right to the person's answering machine! (AI limited). As you know, I also recently asked the AI a question about its own interface (would my chat be anonymized in your AI) and it couldn't answer. I use AI for research, but kids need to know, as when using Wikipedia, that they must take all answers as potentially false and double check everything.
True! There is increasingly a new work role for humans -- verifying ai answers.
OMG, George, you are so speaking my heart and language. Yes, YES, YES!!! What's really cool to me is that all of the suggestions you mention at the end, I'm already doing! It's so liberating and helpful to have ai partners who can show up with my creativity and spark my curiosity to connect patterns and think about things in different ways. From distilling my journal entries after a recent psilocybin journey and helping me design a jewelry piece to integrate and support that experience TO tracking missed spots of exploration with clients or doing the work of smoothing out the larger themes and patterns in my writing and content to help it feel like ME and connect with more cohesiveness (sorry, excited, major run-on sentences!). It's still so important to have real experiences and get real people's feedback and more lived experience data, but it just frees up so much for me to build and grow things and ideas without the constraints of certain skill sets that aren't my forte. The idea itself becomes the muse, and I'm just playing with its energy.
wonderful! and it's increasingly accepted re: run-on sentences and other grammatical quirks, makes the writing human 😄
LOL!
A few additional ideas on what to PRACTICE as a human being and creator, that will set you apart from ai content: https://x.com/GeorgeKao/status/1944249882656530694