I’ve been reading Ethan Mollick’s excellent book about AI called “Co-intelligence.”
If you’re looking for a good read on the topic, this is it. Smart and relevant, yet easy to digest. Nice work, Ethan.
A warning:
If and when you start using AI as a helper, please remember that you’re in charge. AI doesn’t replace your brain, your opinion, or your need to think about the results that AI provides.
Here’s what I mean.
If you’re hiring, don’t simply feed all of the resumes in, ask the AI to “tell me which is the best candidate” and then just take its word for it. Instead, ask your AI copilot to “summarize each of these candidates and rank-order them against the following criteria…” Then, you look through those summaries and decide for yourself.
The best candidate will likely not be the one chosen by AI with the simple question of “tell me which is the best.”
Outsource the busy work to AI. Don’t outsource the human work.
