The AI ReckoningThe AI era
Beinghumanin theage of AI.
A thought experiment on being human when we’re no longer the smartest.
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In 1903, the New York Times predicted flying machines would be built in one to ten million years. The Wright brothers achieved the first powered flight 69 days later.
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Six measurements, one direction. On puzzles it has never seen: 95%, from 6.5%, in 17 months. Every new test we build falls faster than the last.
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AI as tool, as advisor, as digital colleague, as partner. Now we set the goal; it runs the chain. The steam engine did not design better steam engines.
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Lake Michigan, one doubling at a time. By the time it looks dramatic, most of the journey has already happened.
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Homo sapiens. The wise ones. We named ourselves for the one thing we assumed could never be exceeded.
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“AI is not here to take your job; it’s to take away what you don’t want to do.”
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Identity, purpose, meaning, agency. Meaning has never required being the best at something. Sometimes it comes entirely from choosing to do it.
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A durable job is not one AI cannot do. It is one people keep choosing a human for, even when AI could: preference, institutional, accountability, capability.
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A business is a chain of tasks, and the chain moves at the speed of its slowest link. Some weak links are chosen by society, not set by physics.
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The reckoning was never about AI. It was about us.
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The AI Reckoning: A Thought Experiment on Being Human When We’re No Longer the Smartest
For most of history, being the cleverest thing in the room was our job, our identity and our edge. That is ending. AI keeps getting more capable, and nothing in the race stops it at human level.
I don’t think the answer is to look away, and I don’t have the full answer either. So this site is a thought experiment we run together: use AI firsthand, every day, decide where it helps and where it shouldn’t, and keep asking what we want to stay human for. The news, the talk, the garden and the AI Badge are all part of it.
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Victor del Rosal
Adjunct Professor, National College of Ireland · Chief AI Officer, fiveinnolabs
Victor teaches AI for Business at Master’s level and has trained Fortune 500 senior managers and business leaders on generative AI with the UCD Professional Academy. He wrote HUMANLIKE: The AI Transformation and Disruption, and he builds the tools he teaches with.
His tutorials follow the ECHO5 method: Enlighten, Encourage, Envision, Empower, Equip. Beginners are welcome, and experienced people get stretched.
Teaching Award, National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. NCI President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching.
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