Thoughts on the AIpocalypse
Hi everyone! 2024 was something of a vacation from content for me — did you miss me? I missed you! — so it’s time to burst back onto the scene with a plan to create more more MORE in 2025.
If you haven’t met me yet, hello and welcome! I’m Cassie. I’ll tell you more about me in a moment, but first the call to action so you don’t miss it:
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The more our tools do for us, the less we seem to understand about what we’re really asking them to do.
The more our tools do for us, the less we seem to understand about what we’re really asking them to do.
This is the paradox of progress in the AI era. As tools make it relatively effortless to generate answers, we’re confronted with a growing disconnect between ease of use and depth of understanding.
I believe that we need to update our perspective on what it means to lead in an accelerated world, and I’ll be doing that by sharing new ideas and freshened up versions of my perennial blog posts, as well as audio and video, via the newsletter.
Plus humor, of course, since wit is the greatest form of intelligence!
About me: I spent 10 years at Google, where I started as a statistician in Research and Machine Intelligence and ended as Google’s Chief Decision Scientist, before going off on my own a little over a year ago to become an AI advisor and investor.
To feed my heart and soul, I love sharing what I learn with you, which is why no matter what, I’ve always maintained a second profession: speaker, educator, and content creator. You might know me from such stuff as my Making Friends with Machine Learning course or from my keynotes (here’s my speaker invite link for those who want it: makecassietalk.com) or perhaps my tongue-in-cheek leader-oriented tech blog posts you’ll find here on Medium, which I’ll be overhauling for you as we move to the newsletter.
I’m also a secret thespian, so my annual vacation this year is being spent in a three week acting school intensive (9 AM to 10 PM almost every day, ooooof) to become an even better speaker and creator. I’ll write up some of the lessons I’ve learned about acting for you in the newsletter, since you might be surprised that most of it is about how the body works and moves. Crying, for example, has a lot to do with the knees. But more on that later!
Let’s talk about AI, though, and the main reason I speak and write…
We are heading towards an era of acceleration, where the “four horsemen” of the AIpocalypse are not terminator bot but complexity, negligence, change, and opacity. In other words, AI demands more from us as leaders! I’m fairly optimistic about our AI future, but we leaders need to step up and steer this ship!
That’s why I’m committed to sharing what I know with leaders and aspiring leaders who believe, like I do, that the most interesting thing about AI is us.
Please join me at decision.substack.com and don’t forget to bring likeminded folks along!
