It's about time you wrote your personal AI Manifesto
When I pick up my son from boarding school, I will usually have spent the entire week making plans for what we will do together. On this particular Friday evening, I was excited to tell him that I was going to teach him how to use to create anime illustrations using Gen AI. We would spend the whole of Saturday researching and experimenting, before collapsing on the sofa to Akira on DVD.
“Why on earth would I want to do that?” he said. I was stunned, but he continued…
AI is taking jobs mom!!
Leave it out of creative stuff!!
It’s gonna ruin art!!
etc etc
And so we began quite a lengthy discussion where I espoused to him the history of tech: from the wheel to the Industrial Revolution to the AI in the games he plays every single day.
But then it occurred to me: he doesn’t know what my stance is. He doesn’t know my playbook, or what my ethics are on the subject, so he’s going to assume the worst.
So I thought I would write it down...
