practical AI use

the AI expertise conundrum

Meaningmaking includes all judgment calls, aesthetic preferences, and moral decisions that require determining what’s worth pursuing or believing. Here’s the critical insight: only humans can do meaningmaking work, while machines (including AI systems) cannot do meaningmaking work at all (yet).

You are providing direction to a connection machine—not consulting an oracle with its own agenda.

We stand at a peculiar moment in history. We’ve built intellectual engines of extraordinary capability, but in our rush to make them accessible, we’ve wrapped them in the fiction of personhood, creating a new kind of technological risk: not that AI will... See more

You have to want to absorb, to internalize, to make yours, all of the flow of information between you and your AI study partner if you want it to transform you in any significant way, rather than simply to do your work in your place.