Embrace the uncertainty

I am a huge AI optimist. In part because that’s just who I am as a person, I’m always pretty optimistic. But I’m also optimistic because I’ve thought carefully about the alternative, and the alternative is worse. The way I see it, when your options are “have your job transformed and hate it” or “have your job transformed and embrace it,” I’d rather choose the second one. My options right now include being extremely bummed about the current rate of change, letting it get the better of me, and probably losing my job eventually anyway, OR working very hard to envision a future that I actually want to be a part of, where AI makes my work better and more impactful, and doing everything I can to make that happen.

I can’t control whether or not these AI systems exist. They will with or without me. What I can control is learning how to work with them and sharing that knowledge with my friends and colleagues as we do the incredibly tough work of figuring out what the future actually looks like.

That’s not toxic optimism… To use another fairly overloaded term right now, it’s called agency.

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Nobody knows what’s next. That’s terrifying, and also kind of thrilling. Embrace the uncertainty.

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