Aneesh Raman

This is not about artificial intelligence.

This is all gonna be about human intelligence.

And our book isn't a how to AI, it's a how to human with AI with most of the focus on the human part.

Our brain, which I think is the still most amazing, incredible known object in the known universe,

It's been around far longer than the work we're all living right now.

The work we're living now is a product of the industrial age.

It's a couple hundred years old, and it's work that has made us machine-like.

Everything has been about efficiency.

How do we do more, better, faster, more, better, faster, more, better, faster?

We prize the technical skills and the analytic skills most of all in this economy as everything's been about the production of goods and services.

quicker, faster, better.

Well, we're gonna get outmachined by the machines.

And that means we're gonna go back to some of these fundamentals that have allowed humans to progress over millennia, that allow us to be an incredibly intrepid, imaginative, innovative bunch that creates things like the monetary order, the nation state, the entire world around us emerged because humans just came together and imagined something that didn't exist and then went and made it so.

And so we're sort of over-hyping AI and under-hyping our own ability as humans.

And I think that's because we've developed this shrunken sense of self in the industrial age at who we are and what we're capable of doing.

And so I think that as we start telling a different story, to your point about storytelling, Joan Didion has that great line, we tell ourselves stories in order to live.

Story of self is the most important.

So what is the story of self we're telling right now as humans?

it's gotta be that we're pretty badass and that there's so much more we can do at work than what we've been doing at work.

And how do we use this tool to make that so, to help us learn in new ways?