Category: Living With AI

Living With AI Looking back at history, certain moments stand out as turning points. When electricity began spreading through cities, it transformed industry, transportation, and daily life. The arrival of personal computers changed how offices functioned. The internet reshaped communication and information access across the world. At the time those changes began, they were not…

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,…

Living With AI Much of the public conversation about artificial intelligence focuses on dramatic possibilities — self-driving cars, humanoid robots, or futuristic assistants. But the more interesting story may be happening in quieter ways. AI is already appearing inside tools people use every day, often without much notice. It helps filter spam, recommend music, detect…

Living With AI Every generation experiences technological change. Steam engines, electricity, automobiles, computers, and the internet all reshaped daily life in ways that were difficult to imagine when they first appeared. So it’s fair to ask whether artificial intelligence is simply another step along that same path. In some ways it is. New tools have…

Living With AI When discussions about artificial intelligence turn to jobs, the conversation often focuses on what might be lost. That’s understandable. Any major technological shift raises questions about how work will change. But history suggests that technology rarely only removes work. It usually creates new kinds of work as well. The automobile reduced the…

Living With AI Once people begin to understand how artificial intelligence might affect certain kinds of work, the next question usually becomes a matter of scale. How big could this change actually be? Estimates vary widely, and no one knows exactly how quickly industries will adapt. But several economic studies suggest that over the next…

Living With AI When people hear predictions about artificial intelligence changing work, one of the first reactions is skepticism. That’s understandable. Major technological shifts usually take a long time to unfold. The Industrial Revolution took many decades. The spread of electricity across the United States took nearly half a century. Even the personal computer took…

Living With AI When people talk about artificial intelligence and jobs, the conversation often jumps to the idea of machines replacing people. But that may not be the most common way this change actually unfolds. A more likely pattern is something we’ve seen many times before with new technology. The work itself doesn’t disappear. Instead,…

Intro I regularly use four AI tools: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Copilot. While learning, designing, and developing my website, it became clear that I needed the additional capabilities of paid subscriptions (I’ll explain why in a future post). I chose to subscribe to OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude. As my website work began to scale…