Great read! I started learning about AI as an exercise in self-defense after I attended a meeting in which several execs talked gleefully about replacing writers (like me!) with ChatGPT. Now that I’ve taken an ML class and even built several tools with it, I’d characterize myself as a pragmatist…it’s legitimately useful for some things, ineffective at others, and dangerous in some entirely novel ways.
Like you, I’d rather see nonprofits and other pro-social folks help to shape the conversation around AI now rather than wait for something truly (or even more?) awful to happen.
“it’s legitimately useful for some things, ineffective at others, and dangerous in some entirely novel ways.” The BEST description! Our discernment is what will find the uses in each category (and what to avoid!)
Hi Valerie, thoughtful post. I share some of your values mentioned in the post, I also am interested in leadership, learning and the evolving understanding and use of AI. However I wouldn't place AI as a third interest equal to leadership and learning, for me the third element is life, of which AI will be only a part. Like how we live life, AI can lift us up or take us down, it depends. As you note it has good potential to help. though for me it needs to be viewed from the broader context of human life, and then probed for how it can help. Hope these thoughts are useful.
That's a really great point and helpful feedback! I had paused when writing and realize that with this piece I am sort of tryihg to accomplish two things -- 1) my specific lens and 2) how I see it intersecting with AI. So it probably is a bit wonky to put them on the same level when you're right, life is what really surrounds it all.
Great read! I started learning about AI as an exercise in self-defense after I attended a meeting in which several execs talked gleefully about replacing writers (like me!) with ChatGPT. Now that I’ve taken an ML class and even built several tools with it, I’d characterize myself as a pragmatist…it’s legitimately useful for some things, ineffective at others, and dangerous in some entirely novel ways.
Like you, I’d rather see nonprofits and other pro-social folks help to shape the conversation around AI now rather than wait for something truly (or even more?) awful to happen.
“it’s legitimately useful for some things, ineffective at others, and dangerous in some entirely novel ways.” The BEST description! Our discernment is what will find the uses in each category (and what to avoid!)
Like I tell my kids about new cuisines, you won’t know until you try it…🤣
Hi Valerie, thoughtful post. I share some of your values mentioned in the post, I also am interested in leadership, learning and the evolving understanding and use of AI. However I wouldn't place AI as a third interest equal to leadership and learning, for me the third element is life, of which AI will be only a part. Like how we live life, AI can lift us up or take us down, it depends. As you note it has good potential to help. though for me it needs to be viewed from the broader context of human life, and then probed for how it can help. Hope these thoughts are useful.
That's a really great point and helpful feedback! I had paused when writing and realize that with this piece I am sort of tryihg to accomplish two things -- 1) my specific lens and 2) how I see it intersecting with AI. So it probably is a bit wonky to put them on the same level when you're right, life is what really surrounds it all.