Learning to Live with AI

> The drama around AI is bit ridiculous. It's going to revolutionize every business, cure disease, make us 8000% more productive, save the world. Also: it's going to steal every knowledge-worker's job, destroy the economy, and enslave civilization! The fact that everyone feels these things simultaneously makes it clear that it's not just a fad. It's also clear that it doesn't matter whether I like AI or not; any future job I ever have is going to expect me -- as a leader -- to make decisions about it. I don't have to like it, but I'm going to have to know when to use it, or perhaps when to defend against its abuse. I was joking with a friend that it's a bit like nuclear energy: it can create abundant power, and it can also be turned into a bomb. And now companies like OpenAI and Google have been passing out little bits of plutonium from street-carts to every person on the street. It's time for me to take some home and study it.