Ask or Die: Your Human Edge Against AI
The one where curiosity doesn’t kill the cat.
Automation has always upended human jobs. Right through time.
All technology breakthroughs brought tangible cost & time savings, improving margins, amplifying productivity, and driving greater value.
Which is all well and good until the advent of AI. Because AI has replaced the quintessentially human trait: experience.
It’s one thing to automate tasks for efficiency, quite another when AI starts replicating the essence of human experience. Knowledge, skill, experience, mastery — AI’s pulling that card from our skill-stack like a pro Jenga player.
Imagine harnessing not just the speed and productivity of automation, but also the collective experience of billions. Every trial, error, lesson, untraveled road, decision, and choice — all at the click of a button. Where does that leave your hard-earned experience? Your 10,000 hours?
The marketplace loves experience: fat paychecks and deep respect galore. But what if AI makes that experience a commodity, a billion times over, accessible through a web chat? Where does your experience stand then?
AI isn’t just a fancier tool. It’s a fundamental shift. It’s like programming the building blocks of life to work smarter. We thought blue-collar jobs were vulnerable. Turns out, it’s the white-collars — the consultants, strategists, story-weavers — who are in the firing line. Experience, skill, strategy? AI’s got it in spades.
So, what’s our play?
With AI dishing out all the right answers, how do we, mere mortals, stay relevant?
The answer: Ask better questions.
Better questions lead to more accurate, more contextually apt answers. Our roles shift from finding, sorting, and displaying info to crafting questions that make AI sweat for the answers we need.
Being curious, thinking outside the box, shedding functional fixedness — that’s our lifeline against AI’s sweep. It’s never been more crucial to be innately human, to ask the questions that matter.
In the AI era, our superpower isn’t just being human. It’s being the human that asks the right questions.
So go on, be inquisitive, be uniquely human. Ask away. It’s our best bet against AI’s onslaught.
