Reality's melting. Grab a fork.
Today’s TED talk: AI governance.
I love how, just as we’re redefining what a worker should look like - say, someone over 40 - AI has quietly decided otherwise. Every job application I’ve submitted with a graduation date gets ghosted. Coincidence? That’s not what the Workday class action implies. I’d love it to be true as as-per-my-post-history, I’m not getting much love in spaces where I should be.
I got my Master’s in 2004. You do the math. Wrong side of 40.
Because we’re long past asking 'can we?' - we need to start asking 'should we?'. The potential of AI is staggering. It’s already running our social feeds, and we’re at the tipping point where slop starts overtaking the real. To quote Patton Oswalt: AI engineers are “all about coulda, not shoulda.” And now we’ve got a hyper-realistic video of Will Smith eating spaghetti.
But as with all bleeding-edge tech, the bad actors are never far behind. Cybersecurity concerns are mounting, and AI literacy is no longer optional. The same way you are training your parents not to give out their credit card info to random texts, it’s time to teach everyone - from your kids to your coworkers - how to spot a fake, verify sources, and ask better questions.
Because it’s no longer about learning a system, it’s about *systems-of-learning*. What can Gemini teach you that’s useful in Perplexity? What’s transferable from GPT-4 to next week’s model?
AI literacy and AI governance aren’t buzzwords - they’re survival skills. So start by checking your company’s AI policy. If you’re job hunting, check the policy of the company you’re applying to. And if the Workday lawsuit has teeth, maybe think twice before hitting submit - unless you’re also ready to add your name to the suit. (Doooooo iiiit!)
The hallucinations are still wild. Will Smith is still chewing that dang spaghetti. And maybe that’s a good thing - because society’s not ready for fully cooked spaghetti.
Be a discerning devourer of content. Teach the kids. Talk to your parents. The next generation will be AI-native. AI governance and AI Literacy are going to be paramount if we want to retain a connection to the real. Let’s make sure they stay reality-literate, too.
