Stjepan Štajduhar
@stjepan
Dad of two and a husband of one. Very much into design, psychology and writing. Aging backwards in my mind, where everything is intertwined. Against the grain, always.
Stjepan Štajduhar
stjepanstajduhar.com
The machine that cannot judge is precisely where people will confess. Its patience is infinite, its boredom impossible, its feelings unhurtable. People grieve with it, teach with it, lean on it in the small hours. And the thing that makes it safe for all of this, its inability to reciprocate, to need you back, to be changed by the encounter, is... See more
Carlo Iacono • What do you want from AI?
And we must find balance between the two
AI is revealing to us that our (growth/efficiency oriented) systems are fundamentally misaligned with what makes humans flourish and grow. And replacing humans with machines will exacerbate it.
AI’s learning benefits are strongest when the learning is volitional, when the person chooses difficulty because they want to grow, not because an institution requires a deliverable.
Carlo Iacono • What do you want from AI?
AI as a tool that allows you to grow 👍
The condition where the thing you desire is itself the obstacle to your flourishing.
Carlo Iacono • What do you want from AI?
Cruel companionship. Because the machine never gives back, it just holds a mirror for you
I have a name for this pattern: cognitive credit card debt. You save ten minutes by accepting a synthesis you have not integrated. An hour by using arguments you have not verified. A day by outsourcing the hard work of reconciling tension. Each moment of borrowed competence feels like a win. You are not building capacity. You are renting it. And... See more
Carlo Iacono • What do you want from AI?
I like this concept of AI as borrowed competence
People are not auditing AI as software. They are auditioning it as a life-organisation layer. They want it to handle the cognitive overhead that modernity has deposited on every individual who lacks the wealth to outsource it to other humans.
Carlo Iacono • What do you want from AI?
AI as a tool that will allow us to spend less time in front of the computer, not more
What they got instead was a mass confession about human bottlenecks. People did not primarily describe wanting smarter software. They described wanting their lives back. Time. Attention. Confidence. Possibility. Relief from the executive-function overload of modern existence.
Carlo Iacono • What do you want from AI?
It’s as if AI has also made it more obvious how technology is detaching us from the core human experience
How to better find stuff on Google
Best take I’ve seen so far in “putting AI” into an existing product.
Don't let AI speak for you.
Challenge it, rethink it, overwrite it.
That's the game.