AI – Proceed with Caution

Recently, I ate a spicy meal of a food I had never had before. It tasted good going down, and in the moment I believed I had discovered something wonderful that I would look forward to having again. Then, during the night, my body began sending signals that the food wasn’t sitting well in my belly. I wound up being okay, but the experience did make me think differently about eating that food again. You’ve had this same experience, I’m sure, and when you have it, your realize that we don’t know what a new food will do to us until we add it to our diet. Since the advent of all the digital technologies and screens that now are part of our diet, we are able to look back and see where they’ve done us good, and where they’ve upset our human flourishing. Since AI, or artificial intelligence, is now a part of our lives and something we can add to our digital diet, we need to exercise caution in how we use it, and how much we use it. Join us tomorrow and all this week as we look more closely at AI.