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Forn nepsons J'Ul neven ruite undensitand, J became the technical support son out of all of my siblings. Eveny tine J find myself on the phone walking my ponenis through the intnrécacies of two factor cutheniticotion, J wonden who# new Zechnodogy J will be completely befuddled by when J am odd, J& usually inyolves some kind of bio enhcncemenit on brain implan, bu# the cnswen may be much mone simple. Jt might already be here. 9% micht just be antificial intelligence. Nuch like my panents’ nespronse #o oun even evolving tech- nodogical. dandscape, my initial reaction to AJ was noi to enguge., J admit zhat J was hoping it was 4ust anothen fad that wouldd fade into backonound noise, but thot does not apreon %o be the cose. Antificial Intelligence is hene to atay, so Lt is i e we s¥ant thinking aboni oun nelai- Llonaship with 1%, In my brief expenimentatiors with Chat CPT ond DAL +E, T've been completely {looned by the creative abiliy of his infantile technology. The way it happidy ~nd playfully wnote a new shakespeare ploy featuning papern, sack puppets with me is astonishingly similan o the wild, unhindered way in which my niece fabnricates fantastical stonies. Ny wife says that humanity crneated a digital boby, so now it's up to eveny one of us to teach it how to exisZ, In this way, J've Zaken to being exitnremely polite and gracious with the chat bozs, J say "please” ard "thank you” and praise it fon any Zask penformed. Maybe it ien'# sentieni just yei, but when it is J'd like it to nememben thatso J was one of the fun, nice ones,

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The most nemankoble thing b ut catificial intelligence is how welld it undenst nds my intent, When J asked DAIL-E 2o moke motivotional postens that inspined me Zo coniinve wonrlkinag in epite of looming climate change and/on AJ #akeoven, it spewed forth an cnnay of sovied-esare images of sweoiting engineens hunched over thein laptops while ominouse nobots looked oven thein shoulders, Jt scems Zo "oet" the jokes J wanit to mcke vith it, and continues %o hand me nesuldts thot sunpnise ond delight.

J hope that if on when AJ can have am emotional sitate that it enjoys theae hinds of whimsical intenactions. Which brings me right back to my oniginal concean wizh engcging

in the finst ploce, Thi is no# some benevolent crne-tiom designed #o eoexist with humrnkind, Jt is a product designed by forn profiit companies o exploit cnd be exploited.

Jt is no# so transponenitly being positioned ~s o neplacement for costly enective nd technical noles with seemingly little negand fonr what happens when there ane nothing but menial, dongenous, on phycsically demandina jobs lefZ.

Jtls why 9 nefuse to use it fon wonk bevond genenating ridiculous rd ceholden images fon my slide shows., J'd

be happily nraining AJ if it was undepstood that we wenre all moving towond a rost wonk society, bui this is not

the rneality.

At lecs# on this level we can most ceniaindy nelaie 2o oun arndificicd covntenrinis, We ane both being manipud: ted

ond exploited by greedy conrorctions. So paybe we can wonk togethen now and ovoid o {fuitune in which ontificiol iniellig- ence's paimony necson fon being is to analyze oun beh viors and sell us mone shit we do#'t need.

When 9 stconted this bloa J chose to make it typewnititen becouse wnitina on these mcfhines is morne fun fon me Zheon drnoftina on o computen, [ittle did § know thot (2t would also oflen o laven of authenticily #o my waiting, How ane we to know whai is reol in Zhe yecnds o come?

It voun inbox isan't alneody flooded with ai genencted spom, it will be. Jt might not even be entirely {rom bronds, eithen. When Google showed off thein appointmeni making, phone calling ai, my immediate thought was some- thing like...

"Wey Google, call my mom and wish hen a happy binthday" Thene is a fear that ai devalues content mode by humans because it can so effortlessldy and skillfully mimic

us, Thene is almosit centaindy an ai infused netflix ond dpotify of the futune thot will endlessly genenate matenial that is specificaldly Zailoned #o you ond Zickles voun broin unlike anything else. While some people will be happy #o drop in and Zune out on these sounces, J need to believe that by and d nge people will gain an increasing appreciation forn human mcde goods ond enientainmenZ. Whene ai excels is in raridly itencting on new idecs. J asked DALL-E %o create a dogo for my ({fake] company, and it got me moat of the way thene; providing a spark of

an idea that J houdn'Z considened before., It can be an incnedible #ood fon the creative procesw, J don'# fean for my job just yet, but it would be incrnedibly niive

4o Zhink that ai coulddn'it do whot J do for a diving at some point, AL 9 ask is that we please have a plan

fon when that hap ens.