Consciously Creative

I’ve worked in IT for 42 years and I find myself in a quandary over AI.

Currently working as a business analyst, I’m finding great value with targeted focus for AI tools. I’m using it to improve software quality and facilitate better conversations, to understand complex business systems with my customers, and to evaluate how they want technology to work for them, which sometimes includes automation of work to remove the need for human intervention.

This is nothing new. Technology has automated human tasks at scale since the Industrial Revolution, and at a more micro level well before then.

Like anything else conceived from the human mind, AI has a spectrum of impacts that can be from “good” to “bad” depending on who’s using it.

More important is how they use it. That’s where my AI quandary lies. I’m intentional with how I use it and when I don’t use it at all.

Instead of telling it to do things for me, I ask how to do it myself, so it has to tell me how it thinks. Then we can have a conversation.

I have lots of thoughts about using AI for positive outcomes, but really, AI is just a distraction from the bigger problems.

Late-stage capitalism. Supply and demand without regard for the true costs of consumption. Ecological economics. Environmental justice. Existential disconnect.

NIMBY - Data Centers

OKIMBY - All the things I use that rely on Data Centers

Data Centers = The Cloud = Somewhere out there, not here, out of sight

Happy 250 years. We are but a blip in time. A tiny speck on a dust mite’s ass.