Reading the Platformer newsletter “AI as Normal Technology, Revisited” made me smile.
It seems to me that Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor, the “AI is Normal Technology” guys who think it might take decades for humans to integrate AI into the ways we live and work, are right. And wrong. And the five authors of AI 2027, who think maybe we’ll all be destroyed by robots as soon as 2030, are also right. And wrong.
Has the tech industry ever engaged in more prognostication or debate? Not in such a public way. Have the stakes ever been higher? Probably not.
Anyone who works in or with AI is consciously and unconsciously reshaping the foundations of not just the technology industry but everything else too. None of us knows what our daily choices will create in the long run.
In times of intense change, certainty is a bad communications strategy. But as we strive to read the signals and define a path forward, asking the right questions matters most. Casey Newton always surfaces great questions.
For each of us who counsel founders, CTOs and thought leaders, let’s encourage them to ask the right questions rather than to stake out positions of certainty on constantly shifting terrain.
It’s the only choice that won’t look foolish six weeks, six months or six years from now.
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