Such a nice, mild mannered bot

Here’s a sample of what goes on in a very short space of time in my highly sensitive, artist brain when I consider AI. It’s exhausting and takes constant management, but manage it I must.

Robot dogs roam the streets, tracking down and eliminating anyone going against whatever elite doctrine is cooked up and served without our input.

AI doesn’t really get going because of the major climate event it tips us into, and chaos (in my mind, preferable to the previous dystopian imagining) ensues.

Species begin to thrive again because we’re able to make revolutionary clean energy breakthroughs, and we find a tender balance, with mistakes and jeopardy along the way, between the gains of advanced technology and human needs. (This vision is restricted to particularly optimistic days)

Those who cannot hold tight enough to keep up with the speed of societal, technological, and economic shifts form an unprecedented extremity of underclass, worse than the Victorian era’s, but in it we find a consolatory community we’d almost forgotten might be possible.

We’re all bald in jelly tanks, 'The Matrix' style.

And I never really settle on any satisfying conclusion.

Other than the certainty that I need to push myself, the human artist, the creativity coach, the thinker, to maximum levels of inner-authority, bravery, and belief in why I do this, while trying to work out how to enlist the help of a few AI tools if just to not completely fall behind.

But that takes time, and this revolution isn’t waiting around.

I walked into London Waterloo station to be confronted by a gigantic advert for Rayban x Meta ‘AI translation glasses.’

If I still worked in Blockbuster Video, we’d be relocating Minority Report to ‘historical fiction.’

I hope this provides a little glimpse of the need to take people along for the ride from a mental health and purpose point of view. The sheer intensity of this revolution we’re in, without any form of consultation with the population, is incomprehensible.

I shared some of these thoughts with a good friend of mine who runs the media department in a school. He’s started to speed up his workflow on the admin side of things, and he’s always had one eye on the underground bunker. He said to me,

‘Tell you what though mate, whenever I interact with these chatbots, I always say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’, just in case.