Your Agency in the AI Age

And how much agency do we as the general population have, or are we just the subjects? Are we just the pawns in this game between these three major companies, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic?

Your biggest source of agency is actually using it to positive use in your own job and work. Like a large part of what I post about is like, this is a way to help humans thrive with AI if we use it this way, rather than just automating away human work. And I think our biggest sense of agency is, okay, you have access to these tools, you know, Simon, how do you use that to expand your business to make sure that all the people I've spoken to some amazing folks, they're all really smart. How do they do more than they did before? How do they do more satisfying jobs? There's a lot of agency there. And if then, if you talk about it through your platforms, that changes things. And a lot of what I do is talk to executives and leaders of companies where I'm like, we have to, you have to show people how augmentation, how this can be used to make humans thrive, how it can make your business thrive rather than the default plan of like, if I fire everyone and replace it with AI, profits will be higher. Like that's the dangerous thing. So to me, the real agency right now is let's find positive examples. And there are tons of them out there. Mm-hmm. Use them and build them to make AI make the world a better place and not worse.