The hype and fear surrounding artificial intelligence (Ai) is truly something to behold. Right now, the main thing we know about Ai is it will be used to deceive. It is a future that is already happening. We all know about deep fakes and voice cloning, and all that jazz. And it is a real problem. Strong caution is obviously warranted.
Another future that has already happened, full of humorous irony, is Ai taking on an increasing share of the job of computer programming, with the obvious irony being that computer programmers created Ai, which is now reducing the need for computer programmers.
Last time we discussed the skill of mentalization, and it is definitely an important skill. Building off that idea, one compelling possibility is Ai’s ability to help you and i develop our mentalization skills. In other words, it does seem to be the case that Ai can help you to better understand yourself. As an example, i have attached a recent interaction i had with Microsoft’s CoPilot.
