We talk about AI as if it arrived from a different universe and operates by different rules. As if the moment intelligence became artificial, the laws that govern everything else somehow stopped applying. They didn’t! AI exists in the same physical reality humans do....
AI is hungry, and may be headed for your role. First it is eating the “breakfast” jobs (Scheduling, routing, basic coordination, etc.); the stuff that used to consume whole roles. Then it moves to lunch. The repeatable, rules-based work dressed up as “knowledge work,”...
AI is getting frighteningly good at cognition (language, knowledge work, code). It is still clumsy at embodiment (the physical world), but getting better fast. It remains inconsistent at the agency (in autonomously turning goals into outcomes). However, it is very...
There was a time when knowledge had weight; the weight of scarcity. The weight of a person who had spent years earning the right to say, “I know.” A doctor’s opinion did not just contain facts. It contained time, experience, mistakes survived, mentors endured, and a...
1. The Tin Man Problem For all our progress, artificial intelligence still suffers from a strangely human problem. It is brilliant in the ways that matter least to real interaction, and clumsy in the ways that matter most. We have built machines that can out-reason...