In 1995, I encountered AOL discussion forums and became fascinated by a possibility that now seems ordinary: people separated by geography could find one another and think together.
Thirty-one years later, I find myself fascinated by another technological threshold.
Recently, my friend Calvin Harris Jr. shared a T-shirt bearing the words:
“AI WON'T REPLACE YOU. SOMEONE USING AI WILL.”
I think he is directionally right. But I have begun to wonder whether the larger divide ahead will be between people who merely use artificial intelligence and those who learn how to collaborate with it.
Over the past year, my daily work with AI has increasingly convinced me that meaningful human–AI collaboration does not require us to bring less of ourselves to the encounter. It requires more—our experience, expertise, judgement, curiosity, intuition, ethical commitments, and capacity for discernment.
Prompting can produce output.
Collaboration can produce emergence.
In this week's On Transcendence, I trace that idea from my first encounters with AOL in 1995 through my current work developing the Adaptive Elegance Scale alongside human scholars and an artificial intelligence I call Delphi.
The technology has changed beyond anything I could have imagined.
The question that excites me has not:
Who can we think with, what can we learn from one another, and what might become possible if we learn to think together?
The Intelligence Between Us
From AOL to AI: On Technology, Collaboration, and the Expansion of Possibility
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