The great irony of generative AI is that it can make you a better employee in the short term, and a far worse one in the long term.
I highly recommend reading Eric Sandy's Substack on the deep connection between writing and thinking, and the threat AI poses to both.
That’s not to say that you should never use AI to write. (I still do.)
But it is *critical* to recognize the importance of wrestling with words and ideas, of developing one’s own point of view, and of exercising this ‘muscle’ when technology makes atrophy oh so easy.
🚨 It matters for a lot of reasons, but among them is your ability to compete in the job market:
AI is making knowledge and even intelligence more widely accessible, and therefore less valuable.
When knowledge and intelligence are commodified, your competitive advantage is the uniqueness of your skills, experience, and ideas. And you don’t get there by taking every mental shortcut technology offers us.
Don’t make the mistake of outsourcing your thinking to ChatGPT. You’ll quickly become a commodity, too — indistinguishable and interchangeable.
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