What will it mean to be the "human in the loop?"

It took us a solid 15 years to reconcile with the impact of smartphones and social media algorithms on child development and mental health and take action.

How quickly we will confront what deploying AI broadly across the workplace will do to us? I’m not talking about job loss or offloading of our skills to AI. What will it mean to be gainfully employed working with AI? We can already see it happening:

😰 The stress of demonstrating massive productivity gains and fear of not keeping up.

🤯 The cognitive strain of managing a “data center of geniuses” who can all work faster than you or anyone you have ever worked with.

🫥 The loss of connection to other humans as our attention turns to bots.

The trajectory is bleak, even ignoring what mass job displacement could mean.

If we have any chance of unlocking the massive upside of AI, control of the conversation has to be ripped away from the handful of companies that stand to profit from it (the same people who promise a coming age of abundance but promise to move if you dare to tax them a wee bit more).

🎓 Education has to embrace the flipped classroom: prioritize effective deployment of AI to tutor and teach concepts and preserve serious time for discussion, collaboration and group work.

💵 Corporations need show leadership and move to investing the profits from productivity gains in people vs. returning them to shareholders.

💓 Our elected officials have to show a pulse. Give us some sign you understand what is coming. Anything…