When I read this note from Dare, it really hit home:
The skill of being an effective AI worker is having enough competency to catch errors.
Anyone and everyone can use AI tools but an ever diminishing number of people know how to review and catch the errors. These people will be the biggest beneficiaries of AI.
And here’s the thing: the companies that are filled with people that know how to do this effectively will be the successful ones. This is true AI-first.
I see so much fortune cookie wisdom about how to be AI-first (eg ‘lean into it’, ’embrace the tools’, ‘initiate pilots’, etc). And then I see so much doomsayer venting about the dangers (eg hallucination, hackers scaling attacks, etc).
With so much AI slop being generated (both well intentioned and malicious), and the models being trained on the slop, the ability to fact check and error check are increasingly valuable.
It’s something we need to teach the kids from the earliest of ages. That’s the real path forward.
