Daniel Pink argues that easy access to AI won't boost human motivation. He worries people will avoid cognitive challenges when answers come too easily. Confronting uncertainty and grappling with problems remain essential for learning, so motivation in an AI era will stay as complex as ever.
With more learning coming from interaction with AI bots that are intelligent, can we expect human motivation to go up in the future? And I think the answer to that is no. I, I don't think it necessarily has any connection. One thing that I am a little concerned about with AI, while even though I'm generally bullish, is that people will be expending less effort. They'll be doing things to avoid any kind of cognitive adversity. When cognitive adversity, not knowing something, trying to figure things out, Asking questions is how we ultimately learn. So I think that human motivation in an era of AI is gonna be very similar to human motivation before AI— complicated, difficult, inscrutable, and endlessly interesting.
