Yes, I’m going here.

AI is all the rage, and it both worries and excites me.

I am deeply uncertain when I hear the tech bros telling me that in every technological leap forward there will be more jobs.

I’m hopeful but uncertain.

This week I wanted to share a different thought about AI.

Is there a chance it could make us MORE human?

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Could AI make us more human?

What if AI could make us more human rather than less?

I was listening to a fascinating podcast at the weekend. You might have heard of it; it’s called The Diary of a CEO.

When interviewing prominent investor Cathie Wood, Steven Bartlett, the host, asked about her views on AI.

She’s excited by it for all sorts of reasons, but one stood out to me.

Perhaps AI could make us better?

That I hadn’t expected.

My thoughts have been on how useful AI is and how it could replace us at work, particularly younger people.

I’ve been wondering, for example, how people will learn the core skills for their roles if AI does it all for them.

My worry has been that AI might replace us or somehow dumb us down.

Cathie challenged me on this.

She shared the story of Lee Sedol, a top-ranking professional Go player who was beaten by AlphaGo, developed by Google’s DeepMind.

As you might imagine, he wasn’t thrilled to be beaten 4-1 in a 5-match tournament.
After he got over his initial upset, he decided to use AlphaGo for training, and his game improved remarkably.

This got me thinking.

I wonder how we can use AI to be innately better rather than be replaced by it?

• Could we use it to learn new skills or to get better at something?
• Will it remind us about the importance of human relationships, given it can’t, by its nature, ‘relate’
• Could we become better humans, not just better employees, by using it to learn things quickly and as we need to?

I wonder. What do you think?

Email me and let me know.

I’m curious to hear what real people think.

More soon.
Davina

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