
- 27/01/2025
- |Personal Development
We’re being superseded. Outsmarted. Soon we might be surplus to requirements.
That said, during a global conference in Singapore several months ago, one of the other speakers made the distinction that AI won’t replace us. We’ll be replaced by someone who knows more about how to leverage AI. However, with hindsight, that’s not entirely true.
AI is already leading to ‘rationalisation’ in some sectors.
Take a moment to Google-Gemini: ‘AI Redundancies’ and there are already several articles with headlines (no doubt generated with the assistance of AI) ticker-taping the news that businesses are increasingly reducing headcounts. AI is unclipping the white collars with a deft, inhumane touch.
Indeed, you can now have a deep and meaningful with AI. Through facial recognition, it can even detect which (happy or sad) face you have on. You can pour your heart out and it’ll listen. Ask you searching questions. Make you think. Perk you up. Keep the conversation going.
For the lonely, AI could be a wonderful antidote. According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), 27% of adults in Great Britain previously reported feeling lonely ‘often’, ’always’, or ’some of the time’. So, AI could become a constant companion for those who have no one to talk to—a comforting thought if you lead a solitary existence and don’t like the company you keep.
AI is almost certainly developing its artificial emotional intelligence.
But will it feel for you? Really feel for you.
Will it shed a tear for you?
Hold your hand in your darkest hour?
Worry about you?
Worry with you?
Forgive you (eventually)?
Love you with all its heart?
Maybe someday.
But you’ll always know deep down that you’re talking to a nobody. An algorithm. A constellation of uber-sophisticated technologies. ‘It’s life, Jim, but not as we know it.’
That’s why we still need (to lean on) each other.
With all our flaws.
Our ineptitude.
Our indecision.
Our vulnerability.
Our mood swings.
Our lack of confidence.
Our failed resolutions.
Our inner strength.
Our resilience.
Our ability to learn from mistakes.
Our optimism.
Our laughter.
Our joy.
Our shared experiences.
Our emotional intelligence.