AI can be a tool that amplifies human capability. Companies are choosing to make it something else. That choice is not technical. It is political. And we are allowed to refuse it.
With this final piece I want to tell if swing the hammer without a clear target, you just make noise and eventually some damage...I feel to me that we have this great tool in the form of deep learning models aka LLMs/Chatbots and the narrative is just to use or get made redundant. This is a tool that in my view is and will change how we approach things, it's not a tool just for work, being productive or being 10x(there's no such thing as this). Maybe the AI domain is telling us the very nature of what makes you, you. And I feel is not corporate work, formula or a get rich fast scheme.
These four essays started from a simple question on my chat, about how our job in today's society have a great impact in almost defining who we are. I have a lot while researching, from other people comments and direct messages. Thank you.
I suspect the question is something like, will we still have people who understand the work when we actually need them? But I'd rather hear what you actually meant to ask.
Yes, we will. although I feel sometimes experts are being sometimes attacked, and the content that speaks about we no longer need experts to advise us. Is deeply worry. Imagine if we don't have reporters that investigates companies, individuals, even governments?
The question for me isn't just what AI is capable of. It's who we're becoming as we deploy it. And I'm not sure enough people are asking that. Leaders who default to replacement over augmentation tend to be the same ones who've never done the internal work to see their people as anything other than a means to an end. That's not a new AI problem. That's the same leadership self-awareness problem now amplified by AI.
Yes, that is a very relevant question to ask. I wonder about that too. We are very good at adapting to our environment, and for sure AI will change the way we think, the way we act, and how we lead our lives. In the corporate world, it is mostly about output, a means to an end. Technology will change, but it feels like we are still trying to carry on all these practices that are in some way incompatible. This is the same mindset of expecting a tool to change things that we as people are accountable to change. Who we are becoming, that’s a question to delve in…
With this final piece I want to tell if swing the hammer without a clear target, you just make noise and eventually some damage...I feel to me that we have this great tool in the form of deep learning models aka LLMs/Chatbots and the narrative is just to use or get made redundant. This is a tool that in my view is and will change how we approach things, it's not a tool just for work, being productive or being 10x(there's no such thing as this). Maybe the AI domain is telling us the very nature of what makes you, you. And I feel is not corporate work, formula or a get rich fast scheme.
Hopefully we will get there eventually. Thank you for putting out there this type of information. It does help.
I'm planning in doing a Live Q&A around a shared topic.
Feel free to share something you would like me to talk about.
And I will do a Live Q&A.
Chat: https://substack.com/chat/1613271
Thank you.
These four essays started from a simple question on my chat, about how our job in today's society have a great impact in almost defining who we are. I have a lot while researching, from other people comments and direct messages. Thank you.
1- https://newsletter.diamantinoalmeida.com/p/who-are-you-without-the-title
2 - https://newsletter.diamantinoalmeida.com/p/they-did-not-accidentally-make-work
3 - https://newsletter.diamantinoalmeida.com/p/a-delusional-ape-hallucinating-narratives
4 - https://diamantinoalmeida.substack.com/p/the-hammer-and-the-weapon
If you’ve read this and thought, “That’s us,” you’re not alone.
The good news is that changing it doesn’t start with a new tool.
It starts with one honest question in the next meeting:
“Are we using this as a hammer to grow the team, or as a weapon to control it?
I suspect the question is something like, will we still have people who understand the work when we actually need them? But I'd rather hear what you actually meant to ask.
Yes, we will. although I feel sometimes experts are being sometimes attacked, and the content that speaks about we no longer need experts to advise us. Is deeply worry. Imagine if we don't have reporters that investigates companies, individuals, even governments?
The question for me isn't just what AI is capable of. It's who we're becoming as we deploy it. And I'm not sure enough people are asking that. Leaders who default to replacement over augmentation tend to be the same ones who've never done the internal work to see their people as anything other than a means to an end. That's not a new AI problem. That's the same leadership self-awareness problem now amplified by AI.
Yes, that is a very relevant question to ask. I wonder about that too. We are very good at adapting to our environment, and for sure AI will change the way we think, the way we act, and how we lead our lives. In the corporate world, it is mostly about output, a means to an end. Technology will change, but it feels like we are still trying to carry on all these practices that are in some way incompatible. This is the same mindset of expecting a tool to change things that we as people are accountable to change. Who we are becoming, that’s a question to delve in…