The most important skill in an AI world

The most important skill in an AI world:

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The most important skill in an AI world.

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Judgement.

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Judgement is everything.

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It is the only thing.

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The only thing that’s going to make you different.

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In case you don’t already know it, we live in an AI world.

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A world dominated by artificial intelligence.

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It is making decisions for us.

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Thinking for us.

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Writing for us.

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It’s even made decisions at the US military level that murdered over 100 schoolgirls in Iran.

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AI is here.

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It’s everywhere.

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It’s not going away.

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Eventually, all white-collar work will become a commodity.

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Why hire a marketing person when AI can do it for you?

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Why hire a banker to run a financial model when AI can do it for you?

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Why hire a copywriter when AI can do it for you?

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Why hire a graphic designer when AI can do it for you?

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And on.

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And on.

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And on.

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We are going into a world in which the skills that people have developed, some over lifetimes, are becoming obsolete.

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Becoming useless.

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Becoming even worse than AI.

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AI is literally taking over work.

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Why hire 100s of people in a call centre if you can run an AI voice agent?

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Why hire a travel agent if an AI can book it all for you?

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Why get a radiologist to read a scan when an AI can do it for you?

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AI is getting good.

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Really good.

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But we’re hitting an impasse.

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In order for AI to work, it needs to train on data.

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The quality of the data coming in matters.

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OpenAI and Anthropic, the makers of Claude and ChatGPT, trained on the internet.

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The whole internet.

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They digested data from everywhere and created models that can do anything.

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But only things that have already been done.

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The AI models use data they’ve learned and, based on the query or search, come up with the most likely answer.

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But here’s the problem.

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They can’t think.

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They aren’t conscious.

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They have learned how to mimic humans.

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Like the Hugging Face example.

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Or the example of AIs trying to stop their humans from shutting them down.

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But they can’t think.

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They can’t come up with new concepts.

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Even the recent controversy around the mathematics scandal, where OpenAI tried to claim they found the result to the theory, all of that was based on work from humans.

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Discoveries.

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Experiments.

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People sitting down and thinking.

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Could AI help humans think?

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Absolutely.

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It’s almost doing all our thinking for us.

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It is for most people.

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And here’s the scary part.

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But also the advantage.

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Everyone is going to become like AI.

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A robot.

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Spitting out what an AI tells them to do.

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It’s already happening.

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People are using ChatGPT and Claude more than anything else.

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For all types of use cases.

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Some great.

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I’m sure some not so great.

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But the advantage that will come with AI will not be outsourcing your thinking.

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It will be on developing yourself.

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Learning yourself.

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Trying yourself.

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Failing yourself.

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It will come from you moving away from AI and doing things your way.

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Finding your own creativity.

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Starting your own thing.

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Creating something that hasn’t been done before.

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Can AI help you along that path?

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Absolutely.

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But be careful.

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Be careful not to use and trust it to much.

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Instead, look to the real world.

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Be in nature.

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Talk to people.

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Ask questions.

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Be curious about the world.

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Not the online one we’re all scrolling through.

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But the real one right in front of you.

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That’s where you will learn to differentiate.

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That’s where you will see problems.

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That’s where you will understand.

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For an AI can never take your brain.

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It can never replicate you.

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It can never become you.

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You are you.

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You have a brain.

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You have a body.

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You can feel emotions.

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You are so much more than an AI.

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And we need you.

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We need more people.

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Real people.

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Humans.

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Not robots.

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People with feelings.

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Who create art.

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And dance.

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And sing.

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And write.

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We need more of you.

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The creatives.

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The rebels.

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The folks who refuse to let AI take over.

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Because AI is coming.

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It’s here.

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It’s there.

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It’s everywhere.

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But it’s not you.

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For you have judgment.

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You can learn.

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You can see.

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You can experience the world in a way AI never can.

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So go follow that path.

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Follow those curiosities.

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Ask questions.

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See where the world takes you.

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Never stop learning.

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And along the way, you’ll see.

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Your judgment will improve.

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You’ll learn more.

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You’ll see patterns every day.

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Ones that help you be better.

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Ones that help you grow.

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Ones that help you contribute to society.

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All that comes from judgment.

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The most important skill in an AI world.

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Go build yours.

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