Adapting To The Inevitable

AI is coming, like it or not.

The thing is, AI automation of the white collar world is upon us. It may be a good idea or a bad idea, we may like it or hate it, be confused or clear, enthusiastic or bored. Whatever our personal situation, AI automation of the white collar world is still going to proceed. And it will proceed for the same reasons agriculture was mechanized and factories went robotic.

This process of automation is now more than a century old, at the least. Our opinions on the current automation transition don't really matter, because we have little power to change the course of history.

I've been yelling about the overheated knowledge explosion for years now. Even if all my rants were published on the front page of the New York Times, it wouldn't make a bit of difference. Such things are bigger than any of us. They're bigger than all of us.

We are entirely within our rights to yell about AI. But doing so makes about as much sense as yelling at the weather. What does make sense is trying to figure out how we're going to adapt to the inevitable.