Sunday, July 12: The conversation I hope we keep having. One thing I've appreciated over the past couple of weeks is the quality of the conversations these posts have started. People don't all agree and that's okay. The goal was never agreement, because the goal was observation. The more stories people share about how AI is becoming part of their daily lives, the better we'll understand what's actually happening. Every comment adds another perspective. Every experience reveals another piece of a rapidly changing picture. We're all learning together. And I suspect we're still in the very early chapters of understanding what it means to live well with AI. Thank you to everyone who's shared their experiences, challenged ideas respectfully, and added thoughtful perspectives to the discussion. I'm looking forward to continuing the conversation. Question: What's one topic about living with AI you'd like to explore next? #Sunday #SundayFunday #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #IntimAIcy #HumanCenteredAI #TechnologyAndSociety #HumanFlourishing

Saturday, July 11: Observation comes before opinion. One thing I've tried to practice throughout this series is something surprisingly simple - to approach my examination and thoughts about AI as field research. For better or for worse, AI has already been deployed. First, as a machine colleague to everyone in corporate America in the summer of 2025, next, as a virtual employee answering phones or automating tasks throughout late 2025 and the first half of 2026, as a kind of responsive live agent or interactive help function throughout the end of 2025 and now into 2026. We now live in a reality where some kind of AI functionality is available in almost every aspect of daily life. To understand how that works and what that means is not a hypothetical process. For me, this means that I start with observation first. What am I seeing? Where am I seeing it? Next, I carefully name what I am observing. Since last fall, I've been slowing naming, creating and collecting my own vocabulary set to describe particular moments we all have with AI where we might fall into the trap of labeling an interaction with AI using standard existing human vocabulary. Only after I have spent a great amount of time observing, recording what I see, naming it, tracking it, thinking about it, then, sometimes, I might speculate on what that means. Or what it may mean over time. Because the reality is, we don't know. AI is fully deployed and it is available in almost every system we touch throughout our day. That may be why some are so susceptible to fear or to exhilaration. It's certainly tempting to rush toward conclusions whenever a new technology appears. And hypothesizing, or simply exploring thoughts about what something is or what it might mean is a common way we humans process new information or major changes in our lives. There's nothing wrong with imagination, or thinking simply to think. But History suggests that's rarely the wisest approach if we truly want to understand what is happening and have a chance to understand what might or will happen. So before deciding exactly what AI is... Let's pay attention to what people are actually doing with it. Before predicting the future... Let's understand the present. Sometimes careful observation is more valuable than a confident opinion. Question: What's one thing you've observed about AI that surprised you? #Saturday #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #CriticalThinking #TechnologyAndSociety #HumanCenteredAI #ThoughtLeadership