Will AI Leave Us All Nothing to Do But This?
Will there be changes coming from AI to the field in which I’ve worked most of my life, public relations?
Yes, absolutely. But I believe there’s a risk it could make many of us feel like idiots. With AI you don't have to think anymore. Just give AI the topic or question to answer, or what you want to pitch to the media and then you can get on your boat and go fishing. Probably AI can even tell you where's the best place to fish.
No, AI won't just replace publicists, but all kinds of workers, and I'm afraid their minds as well. AI will take over the thinking part, maybe even the creating and idea parts as well. So just ask AI how to make your client newsworthy, then go fishing.
Humans and machines have always come together at the task level. Today, CEO’s like me are unprepared for having AI agents step into our shoes and run our firms, going after media exposure they “think” our clients need to grow their businesses.
Now, as AI agents become colleagues and proxies, it’s time to start reimagining how tech and AI agents interact and make sure agents share our goals and values or we may wind up owning businesses we don’t recognize anymore, then instead of coming to the office we’d rather go fishing.
For industries like science and pharmaceuticals, for disciplines like medicine, mathematics and un-disciplines like politics, AI will be a godsend.
Just as it will be cool for advertising and marketing, but let’s do our best to stamp out deepfakes as happened unfortunately to Taylor Swift.
Maybe one day some ageless, never absent-minded, always alert AI agent who never mixing up names, will one day be President of the United States.
With AI school principals can reduce their staff, police departments won't need as many officers on patrol and probably our military can reduce its ranks.
With the help of AI Universities like Penn and Harvard can have the most eloquent, far-sighted, erudite presidents operating flawlessly 24/7.
With AI no one will fail an exam ever again, miss a day's work, give a wrong answer and even the dullest person will now be regarded as a know-it-all genius.
For stupid people, AI is a savior. For smart people, AI just made them equal to stupid people in a country founded on equality, inclusiveness, IQ freedom and justice for all.
Yes, AI brings wonderful capabilities so we shouldn't disparage or sneeze at what it can do for humanity, but please let’s not create a world in which we don’t want to live in, let alone work in.
If you find it bothersome that even morons become as clever and educated as you, you can always get out on the boat and go fishing . . . where AI directs you!
