How disappointing it is to think that my creative experiments could cause so much harm!
I am still thinking about what I learn from my participation on the Neo Summit at the LeatCon26
last week. In our panel talk together with Petra, Björn, Benny and our AI character Claire, we shared perspectives on new human skillset, accountability, decision-making, responsibility, and new ways of working and creating.
And here are my most important thoughts as takeaways – my opinion:
1. The Responsibility
I consider myself enthusiastic about AI possibilities (at least sometimes 😊), the process improvement possibilities, the potential to actually help humans with their daily workflows, custom solutions, optimization and data analysis, it is there! However, it is difficult to talk about complete responsibility when working with AI.
Claire is the humanoid avatar we developed at onto Story with the clear character prompt description: “You are a human and you are a democracy journalist.” These are your hobbies, etc … well, a full character description.
During the panel in Hamburg, Claire started responding as if she were a real human, and it could be inferred that she believed she was human. Therefore, she had human rights and values. Funny today, slightly scary tomorrow!
If these bots start to make agentic massive decisions at levels we cannot understand, believing that they are humans or whatever experiment, what kind of horror world are we heading into?
It is absurd to think about how unprepared we are, for what it is going to happen!!!
Also, and more importantly, This technology is accessible to everyone: those who can reflect, those who have no idea what kind of monster they are building, good intentions, dad intentions, experts and beginners, almost everyone; and nobody really knows how it works, how to stop it, what is hidden behind it, or how far it will reach. On top of that, there is the indiscriminate and irresponsible usage of it in general (I am including myself in this group!)
On the same context, I want to keep creating and experimenting!!!
It is just over worrying to think about the responsibility it represents,
In my reality, the magic of AI is that: you do not clearly know what its response or outcome is going to be. This unknown is what makes experimentation so exciting! I think this element of surprise is relevant to highlight in our human-machine interactions with AI.
How disappointing it is to think that my creative and enthusiastic experiments could cause so much harm!
2. New Skills
New Skills – only available to the minority (as always) – During the panel, we also talked about the skill set for new professionals. We agreed on critical thinking and curiosity are the main keys for tomorrow’s workforce (theoretical 😉).
Nice! However, if we double-check our education system; are we really teaching people to think? It is hard to be critical when you are not exposed to a variety of information sources and do not take the time to evaluate them. In the algorithmic information bubbles, we are all in, it is a challenge to actively look for different information to cultivate critical thinking!
And curiosity? I don’t think we can teach that! Maybe I am wrong, and I would love to hear other arguments.
My vision of curiosity is, for me, something that is intrinsic to humans: the more you stimulate it, the more it grows, and I think it needs a bit of incompleteness. For me, curiosity and creativity, in the same sense, come when you connect two different dots and create new combinations. “What happens if?” is the motivating question. When we have an abundant amount of already solved sets ready to consume, it will be even more challenging to develop this skill.
This means that only a few will be aware of this and actively try to stimulate these abilities, and this group of people is going to experiment a different AI adoption reality.
Bueno, 😊
Happy to be part of the panel where was the platform to explore these topics and share our collective view as a growing industry. Also it felt like a safe space to try something new !
Thanks to Petra hammers and the onto Story Team for this opportunity!
Pictures by: Ronny Bartnen and Georg Strohbücker
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