Kevin Surace argues that resisting generative AI is like refusing Excel in the 1980s. Early adopters will thrive as "robot overlords" using AI for advice and document work, while others get left behind. He uses AI for nearly every task and says it brings both joy and a real edge.
Everybody thinks AI is going to take their job, but this expert explains why they're looking at it completely wrong, and his logic is hard to ignore.
Nobody likes change, so let's just start with that. And second of all, they've heard and they've read it's gonna take your job. But my view is you wanna become the robot overlord because the alternative is you've been run over by the thing. Remember, this is a language model world and a, a visual model world, but before that we had something called a math model. It's called Excel. We don't even think about it anymore. But if you were in finance in 1988 and Excel showed up, you thought it was the end of your career. It was over. So I think it's important to let people know that this is a wholesale change. And if you approach it right, it is gonna bring you great joy. GenAI has brought me great joy, not just because I speak about it and I'm in the field and all that, but because I use it for everything, for everything I do. I do not wanna do anything alone. I want the advice of a large model, either visually or uploading documents and summarizing those documents and pointing out things I might not have seen and ideating. So those who do that, of course, are gonna win. Those who took on Excel Those who said, I'm never going to use that thing, it scares me, they weren't in finance a year later. It was over, right? So look at the joy that it can bring you.
