Everything you control, you control through decisions—and at work, decisions are the actual product. The next four chapters are about what a decision is, what your body knows, who you think with, and how to own one, and how AI is changing our decisions without us being aware.
Helen Edwards is a Co-Founder of Artificiality. She previously co-founded Intelligentsia.ai (acquired by Atlantic Media) and worked at Meridian Energy, Pacific Gas & Electric, Quartz, and Transpower.
A growing cadre of academics, activists, technologists, lawyers, and designers are confronting biases and attempting to understand and mitigate them. The attempt to grapple with AI bias will force us to confront the biases in ourselves.
Paradoxically, the prediction of our future selves reduces our ability to freely find those selves. The younger we are, the more pernicious this effect may be. Perhaps the ultimate protection we can give our kids is the right to figure themselves out before an AI does it for them.
