I have always embraced new technology, excited by all the new things I can do with it. AI is no different… I have taken multiple courses from Google, MIT, and even taught myself Python for the first time so I can take the Deep Learning course and build my own regression algorithms.
But I am finding myself asking more and more ‘Should I do this’ – about work and strategic initiatives, how I spend my day, or even emails and communications… from a place of reflection on the question ‘What will bring the best outcome for me, and for us?’
That’s encouraging and a natural reaction to a world of increasing AI impacts… showing up in stories of friends making incredible videos in a day, from the fragmented information about DeepSeek, or OpenAi’s Superbowl commercial. From the geopolitical dimension that seems to layer over everything these days.
These questions will become the most important to ask for all efforts since the asymptotic phase of how much we can achieve, and how easily, is approaching. Very soon, we will truly be able to do anything with nothing more than a chat prompt. The ramifications of what we can do are drowning in the sea of tokenization and vectorization. As @askcatgpt says, this will be the last human job: deciding what Should be done. What will make the world better for the most people? What will bring an end to the division, cruelty, and wars of the world? What will make our lives not just easier, but safer and more loving? And what is it that Humans truly need? What will create a sustainable future for life on the only planet we know of where it exists?
The forces we need to marshal to answer these questions don’t come from data. They don’t come from increased productivity, nor do they come from being wealthier. They come from within us, and we already have what we need to answer them. Our Humanity, our intuition, our moral judgment, and our shared experience. Just because a thing can be done doesn’t mean it should be. And that is a worthy thing to spend our time thinking about. Now more than ever. We are all going to have more time to think, and I hope we use that time to ask the question: What should we be doing? We are still the only ones who can answer that, and it’s the only question that matters now that we can do anything. Soon, we won’t be able to answer it, because everything will be done, and not by us.