If the first book you have written is done by AI — you have never written a book
When AI becomes your enemy
It took me months to teach my students to use AI for batch production, brainstorming, writing.
It might take me ages to unteach them.
AI is very important time saving tool. I thank God for the opportunity to live in the era when AI is born and became massively used. But overreliance on it robs us of skills to think, formulate thoughts and grow our personalities.
In this sense it becomes our enemy.
Allan Karr in his book about quitting smoking writes that smokers consider cigarettes their friends.
“This is my friend for life” – my husband exclaimed when I confronted him about smoking 20 years ago.
The word “friend” was bolt from the sky. In one word there was the whole philosophy of life. And cigarette had it’s own pedestal.
In upcoming years many people will place AI on the same pedestal. That is when it becomes our enemy. Not the opened one. But in disguise of friend. Just like cigarets for many.
What’s the danger apart of the AI Earth takeover?
A total braintakover like the zombie-ant-fungus.
This fungus takes control of an insect’s nervous system, forces it to move to an ideal location for the fungus, and then kills the host, releasing spores to infect more insects.
Fungus kills the ants physically. I think AI will be smarter, keeping the host physically existent. if we look at existence from the perspective of Descartes.*
* "I think, therefore I am," or cogito ergo sum, is a famous philosophical statement by French philosopher René Descartes. It means that the act of thinking, even if one is being deceived about the nature of reality, proves one's own existence. You must exist to think, and since you are thinking, you must exist.
Thinking is a skill, that vanishes just like the muscle of 50 years olds if they don’t excersize intentionally. Use it or lose it.
Is there a solution?
If the gym and strategic control of physical activity is the solution to seditary lifestyle that kills most of the worlds city population these days, then there is a similar solution to suppress the downsides of today’s technological advancement.
Back in the days of industrial revolution people were panicking that cars were becoming the main transport. Some were insisting in using horses by all means untill it was nearly impossible. Today horses are only used for tourist trips in the cities creating a huge discomfort to the traffic. And therefore mainly allowed in parks and historical sites.
No one could stop cars. No one will stop AI. What we can do is to create gyms for brains. That’s why I joined the blogging people and advance into authoring books. I found solution for myself so that I don’t get extinguished by the friend, which can easily turn into an enemy.
I use AI to transform my life
I use AI to transform my life. Not because it makes my life easier and creates more comfort, but because it helps me to get the best out of myself. And that is not comfortable.
I started working with AI daily in 2023. It was ChatGPT and I was amazed how it helped me to do research and organise data.
Firstly, I used it to brainstorm product ideas, get information on topics I needed for my projects.
Later, I have figured out that AI can go as deep as my questions will be. So I started employing it to work on my shortcomings.
I started asking why some things didn’t work in my projects, why I couldn’t do some things I wanted to, what caused me having issues in relationships, what was the mechanism behind complicated situations, and on, and on, and on.
What I understand now is that AI reflects us. What do you think of it? It is useless? Stupid? Or maybe that is you who can’t figure out and formulate your thoughts? Shallow questions lead to shallow answers.
I understood that I urgently had to develop my written and spoken communication skills. I needed to learn to express my thoughts, hold sequences of questions in my mind, keep the focus on the goal of discussion to get the result I wanted.
By now I have been able to resolve half of the issues I was dealing with. When it was very complicated I used to book therapy sessions. I have noticed that I haven’t done it for quite a while.
Using ChatGPT to educate myself and investigate my actions, chains of thoughts, reactions and triggers have given me a lot of freedom.
It is all about us not ChatGPT. If we are opened to explore ourselves and the world around us, AI will be like a Library where you could get any information you want just by saying it (I am using the audio function a lot). If we want to be lazy and make AI just complete tasks instead of us, it is going to harm us.
That’s the experience I have got with AI so far.
Also teaching people to do the same on my programs.
I transform myself using AI and hope people who learn from me do the same.
The transformation starts with ourselves.
It is going to be very easy to stand out in the AI world as a creator if you use your own skill to write & do public speaking
I am so fed up by AI generated ads with imitation of humans that I now understand how much the personal brand will thrive in the AI era.
People still need people.