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AI on Earth

Some prominent people in high tech say that artificial intelligence (AI) will take over the world. Computers will calculate that humanity is the real problem on earth and will start World War III to wipe us out. You can’t make it up, even if Hollywood already has—repeatedly. These predictions are garbage. Pay no attention to them.

This is fear mongering. Fear doesn’t make you smarter about technology; it makes people irrational, erratic, and prone to extreme behavior. Fear leads to bad decisions.

Equally, stop listening to so-called “futurists” who claim that AI will eventually merge with and exceed human intelligence, achieve “superintelligence”—like Iron Man and his omniscient bot, Jarvis—and attain “singularity.” When this happens, technological advances will alter the fundamentals of nature and economics as we know them, everything will be automated, human misery will end, and people will enjoy a one-thousand-year life span. Again, you can’t make it up. Utopias all turn out to be failures or frauds, sooner or later.

Recent AI hype may sound like the noise of a classic market bubble, like tulips in the Netherlands in the 1600s, or the South Sea Company and Mississippi meltdown in the 1700s, all the way up to dotcoms and “the new economy” in the 1990s, subprime mortgages until the crisis of 2008, and those cryptocurrencies that Warren Buffett called “rat poison.”

But there’s more to AI than that.

AI is real. It is a set of computer tools that can help you to make money in the good old-fashioned way: increase sales, streamline your operations, and reduce your overhead costs. If you are in government services, it can enhance your work and lower your expenses.

You can use it if you are a farmer, a dry cleaner, a banker, a teacher, a sport coach, a doctor, a lawyer, and just about any profession you can think of. We do mean “any.” Including the oldest, believe or not. It’s hard to inhibit some entrepreneurs.

Joshua and I are going to tell you in plain terms what AI is, what it can do and what it can’t, how you can and should use it for the benefit of your organization, whether a business, nonprofit, government entity, or NGO.

The race is on. There is a global contest to see which economy gets the most out of the best set of AI applications.

Don’t hold back. We all have to wise up, do the work, and use these tools correctly and responsibly, for our profit and protection, before others take advantage of our ignorance.