Living With AI
For most of history, tools extended physical abilities. A hammer amplifies strength. A telescope extends vision.
Artificial intelligence introduces something different: tools that help with thinking tasks.
That doesn’t mean the machine does the thinking for us. More often it means people work alongside systems that can rapidly analyze information, generate possibilities, and assist with problem solving.
Many professionals are already experimenting with this kind of collaboration.
Examples of Human + AI Collaboration
| Field | Example |
| Medicine | doctors reviewing AI-assisted diagnoses |
| Software development | programmers using AI to draft code |
| Research | scientists using AI to analyze large datasets |
| Writing and communication | people using AI to organize ideas and drafts |
The skill may not simply be knowing how to use a tool.
It may be learning when to rely on it, when to question it, and how to guide it effectively.
In that sense, artificial intelligence may become less like a machine and more like a very fast assistant that still requires human judgment.
The next and final in this series is Living With AI #10 – The Turning Point We May Be Living Through, will be posted Sunday. We have been working on a series of AI in the medical world but before that, I plan to share a few conversations I have had with different AIs, conversations I think many of you might find interesting.