The Next Intelligence
Thematic Core: “Human Intelligence (HI) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are shaking hands to create Next Intelligence (NI).”
We stand at the edge of a new partnership, and we’re acting like clumsy teenagers on a first date. We either fawn over the AI’s abilities or we fear its intentions. We haven’t yet learned the manners of this new relationship.
The first manner is this: know what you bring to the table. You bring the hunger. The AI brings the kitchen, the ingredients, and every cookbook ever written. But it cannot taste the food. It doesn’t know if the meal should be comforting, challenging, or celebratory. That is your job. You are the appetite that directs the feast.
The second manner is to be a good conductor, not a struggling soloist. You don’t need to play every instrument in the orchestra. Your value is in hearing the symphony in your head and knowing how to cue the strings, the brass, the woodwinds—the AI being all of them—to bring it to life. Your humanity is the baton.
This collaboration, this Next Intelligence, is not a replacement for you. It is an amplification of you. It turns your spark of an idea into a controlled burn. It turns your whispered intuition into a clear-voiced proclamation.
The Tipping Point: Stop asking the AI for answers. Start using it to ask better questions. Your role is no longer to be the repository of knowledge, but the source of direction, meaning, and soul. The future belongs not to the smartest person in the room, but to the one who can build the most profound partnership with the smartest thing in the room.
I also think of the societal context of AI, Mo.
It could be a very helpful technology if used in a society that had people’s best interests at heart.
A good reminder, Mo, that we can control AI if we don’t allow it to write for us. Instead, as you say, we should be asking AI questions and regarding the answers as research for our written work. Excellent distinction.