Prior to delivering a brief keynote and moderating a panel at the Global Family Offices Summit in Miami last week, I instinctively had a cursory glance at the artificial intelligence news du jour. Much to my dismay, it was an excruciating and depressing experience, with gloom and doom plastered on clickbait headlines about the AI bubble, deep fakes, and the endless grave of failed corporate pilots.
Herein lies the paradox: on the one hand, commentators shrug off the AI revolution as a pure speculative bubble, but on the other hand, they relentlessly assert dystopian visions of a post-humanist or transhumanist future where society is utterly machine-centric. This disturbing confusion does not contribute to a clear vision of the effect of the AI revolution. As I was interviewing an incredible panel of AI entrepreneurs, I was reminded that everything they were doing with AI was utterly human-centric.
