10 Things Every Graduate Needs to Know in the Age of AI |
Many graduates hate AI. Beneath the hatred, there is the reasonable fear that the world is changing too fast.
Our problem? With the progress we evolved to make, we've created an alien world we didn't evolve to inhabit.
After our basic needs are met, put love first. Relationships are key to our happiness and survival.
We can choose to use AI as a tool to help us understand ourselves and where we want to go with our progress.
Graduates, the old playbook was written for a world that no longer exists. The pace of change has finally exceeded our ability to adapt to it. Because AI changes everything, everything must change.
Just this past week, graduates booed two commencement speakers for mentioning AI. That tells us where we are. We’ll come back to that.
The short version, in case you don’t read the rest: after we meet our basic needs, put love first. Love is the bullseye of life and the truest measure of wealth.
With that, graduates of Generation AI, here are:
10 Principles to Thrive in the Age of AI
1. Take care of basic needs first.
Safety. Sleep. Real food. Movement. Nature. People (in person). We didn’t evolve for Takis or TikTok. Mental and physical health struggles are often symptoms of unmet basic needs. Cultivate a life around prioritizing them.
“Know thyself” was inscribed at the Temple of Apollo at Delphi over 2,500 years ago. The Greeks understood that self-knowledge is the heart of all wisdom. They were right then, and even more so now.
Within a handful of years, AI may surpass humans in intelligence. For the first time in history, we will no longer be Earth’s most intelligent species. What AI doesn’t have, and may never have in the way we do, is the wisdom to use intelligence skillfully. That’s our differentiator. We cannot know where we want to go until we know who we are.
3. Become skilled at relating to others—in person.
After basic needs, relationships are the key to our health and happiness. In fact, relationships are a basic requirement and how we meet all other needs. Someone with two close friends will be happier than a person with 20........