Mindless “AI or DIE” Will Worsen Your Human Debt™

Forget AI in the computer industry (where indeed the discourse is complex as its appearance shakes the very foundation of software crafting, engineering, product and design alike), what about it everywhere else? How does it affect every other employee in every other industry and what’s first emergency for you as a leader of an “AI or DIE” company?

Let’s first look around for context. Much is happening in the world. Most of it dreadful. Little to be pleased for or feel proud about. No matter what side of the political spectrum you happen to be on, you’d have to be blind not to see how it all feels like it’s crumbling faster than we can build anything.

I have been writing about the tech and business world, for what is now gosh, nearly 20 years. I’ve been lucky that they have been pivotal years in human and technology development. When I started my career the internet was barely there, everything else came after. The revolution that iPhones brought about, cloud computing, SaaS, digital money, living our lives through apps, everything we see whizzing by on the infernal informational highway came at us at once in the space of only a few (tens of) years.

That makes us all sorely unprepared. It’s a lot. It’s incredibly much. Much more than our brains and our bodies were built for. And they are breaking on us.

The world is in the midst of a physical and mental health crisis of unprecedented size and it’s rare to find anyone who thinks they’re doing peachy. And all this is before we recount that it is hardly just the digital explosion that we grapple with but ecological disasters, pandemics and wars thrown in for universal good measure as if to test our final limits.  It’s no wonder we are faced with a world more divided and less compassionate than ever. Some even suggest we may collectively have developed “zoochosis”, a condition wild animals develop in captivity characterised by uncommon behaviours and distress. After all, we do indeed all live in cages of our own making and no one touches any grass anymore. (Millennium pun intended).