Andrew Hilger

Andrew Hilger writes and speaks about leadership, AI, the future of work, and digital transformation.

Artificial Intelligence, Genuine Stupidity

Ever since I found myself in a fast-casual-order-modification-service-agent-chat doom loop, I’ve been contemplating a series of posts called: ๐—”๐—ฟ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ณ๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ถ๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—œ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฒ๐—น๐—น๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ฒ, ๐—š๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜‚๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฒ ๐—ฆ๐˜๐˜‚๐—ฝ๐—ถ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐˜๐˜†.

I’ll be looking for examples (so hit me up).

The short of it: I’m increasingly frustrated with where we’re pointing the supposedly game-changing technology:

I used to be a customer with wants and needs…
…Now I’m a set of monetizable eyeballs expressed as potential lifetime value.

I was a student engaged in learning…
…Now, I’m a score spit out by some model’s assessment of my ability to pay tuition.

I was an engaged citizen who had something to say about the future of my town, county, state and country…
…Now I’m a potential campaign donor with known hot buttons that increase my likelihood to donate.

At least I still get to be a passionate fan who lives and dies with my teams…
…Except my teams have sold my data to someone who predicts the likelihood that I’ll make an in-game bet on second-half passing attempts.

I long for the days when I was a human being…
…Rather than a vast set of data crunched in the cloud via ever-optimizing AI models.

Is it any wonder that all this intelligence hasnโ€™t brought us the fulfillment we crave? Maybe it’s time to start asking if we’re using intelligence for the right purposes.

#WisdomOverIntelligence #TheWrongRace