3 Laws of AI Empowerment

Technology Is Part of Who We Are

The lines between what's "digital" and what's "real" have never been blurrier.

Our phones attach to our hips like another appendage. When any of our devices run out of battery, we twinge at their last gulps of electrical life.

Some call technology "unnatural." They claim it to be separate from us in some way.

I disagree.

The history of human beings is one in the same as the history of technology. You cannot separate the two.

For better or worse, technology has proven to be useful enough that it now commands most of our attention.

And now, we have created bridges to the physical world in the form of robots and other emerging AI systems. In the very near future, that power will expand to an army of physical robotic AI too.

So how do we cope? AI is coming in hot, and the robots are coming with them.

Trust me, nowadays, anybody can command an army of digital AI.

Three Core Skills for the Age of AI

To help us adapt, I've identified three core skillsets we must master in the age of AI: Self Learning, Impulse Control, and Collaborative Problem Solving.

1. Self Learning

We adopt self learning to embrace all the inevitable changes coming into our world. We don't hide from them. Instead, we look these inevitable changes in the eye, self-learn, and adapt.

When we are in a space of self learning, our abilities expand along with AI's abilities.

When we don't self-learn, we become passive, and our abilities diminish in the face of AI (without us being aware of it).

2. Impulse Control

We adopt impulse control and become deterministic where we put our attention.

AI has gotten very good at eating all our attention in the form of algorithms. More often than once, I've opened up Instagram to send a message only to spend the next 20 minutes doom scrolling.

With impulse control, we become deliberate with our attention. Instead of being a victim of the algorithms, we choose which AI entities we engage with.

Ideally, choosing the algorithms which align us with self learning (principle one).

3. Collaborative Problem Solving

We must embrace AI as our co-creator across everything we do.

No digital role should be 100% human driven any longer. We now have digital co-creators capable of incredible feats of creativity.

Ignoring these super powers will create risk for you as a creator or entrepreneur.

While many of us have been sharpening our axes, the chainsaws are being invented, and they're called AI.

If you have yet to adopt AI into your problem solving, I beg you to get learning. Start by controlling your impulse to doom scroll. Hop on YouTube and get curious about the latest innovations.

Apply that learning and get playing with your digital co-creator. Repeat.

Moving with the Tide

By adapting these three principles, you will find yourself moving with the tide.

By adapting these three principles, you will ensure you are not caught off guard.

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