Everything Adrian Cole has contributed across Innovators Report.
What does everyone get wrong about the future of humans and AI?
“We're treating the future like something technology does to us.”
It isn't.
Technology expands the set of possible futures.
Humans still choose which ones we finance, regulate, normalize, reject and build.
Prediction matters. Agency matters more.
What will humans still be better at?
“Choosing.”
Machines will tell us what's possible and probable. Neither tells us what's desirable.
What will machines become better at sooner than most people expect?
“Prediction.”
Machines can process vastly more signals than humans. Many forms of forecasting will improve accordingly.
What becomes more valuable as machines become more capable?
Agency
Possibility expands. What we choose to do with it remains entirely ours.
What do you believe happens next?
“We stop asking whether AI is better than humans.”
The comparison eventually becomes as strange as asking whether an airplane is better than a bird.
The more important question will be what humans can accomplish with capabilities neither humans nor machines possessed independently.
What Will Humans Still Be Better At?
