“The world is going to end. AI will kill us all.”
That is the easy story to tell. It takes no effort.
When people describe me in one word, “optimist” comes up a lot. Sometimes they say I am too optimistic. I heard something on a podcast recently that stuck with me: staying optimistic is hard work, and turning negative comes easy. I think my dyslexia and the harder parts of my life pushed me to take the difficult road in how I think.
A simple example. When cars arrived, people worried about all the jobs that would disappear. Same with the industrial revolution. Now it is AI. Picturing the worst and counting what we will lose is easy. It asks nothing of you.
The harder thing is to picture the jobs that do not exist yet, and the progress we have not made. We keep saying the world is running out of natural resources. I would rather think about the resources we have not discovered.
So with all the bad and frightening headlines, I look for the news nobody watches. New ideas. New solutions. That is usually where the answers are.