**DO YOU REMEMBER THE FIRST TIME YOU TRIED AI?** Not the first time you heard about it, but the first time you actually sat down and asked it to do something. Why did you decide to try it? What were you trying to do? Maybe you wanted help writing an email, or perhaps you were curious about something you'd read. Maybe you wanted to plan a trip, compare two products, troubleshoot a problem, or simply see what all the excitement was about. And what happened? Did it impress you, disappoint you, confuse you, make you laugh? Did you immediately think of ten more things to try? Or did you close the application and forget about it for months? I think these early experiences are interesting because they may influence how we approach the technology afterward. One person gets a remarkably useful answer and becomes curious, while another gets a completely ridiculous answer and decides not to bother. Someone else sees potential but isn't quite sure where AI fits into their life. And the technology keeps changing while we're making those judgments. **THERE IS NO SINGLE AI ADOPTION STORY.** Some of us began experimenting years ago. Others have only recently started. And even people who began at approximately the same time may have taken very different paths. I'm curious about those paths and wanted to create some opportunities for us all to think and share as we feel comfortable over the next 1-2 months. **Question: What was the very first thing you remember asking AI to do? And did that experience make you want to try it again?** #Monday #MondayMotivation #November #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AICreep #Technology #PersonalExperience #AILiteracy #Curiosity #EverydayLife

Good afternoon, LinkedIn friends, today starts a new series I've been thinking about for a few weeks about AI. For the last few months, we did a Back-To-School "Special," of sorts and thought about what the rapid emergency, deployment and implementation of AI, particularly as it is changing so rapidly, might mean for our children, who are, themselves, also rapidly changing. Now, we turn to thinking about ourselves and how all of this rapid change might affect us, because we matter, too. I had originally intended this post for yesterday, so you are going to get a bonus post today. Enjoy! **WHILE EVERYTHING IS CHANGING, ARE WE PAYING ATTENTION?** I've been thinking about something that seems both extraordinarily important and remarkably simple. AI is changing and our workplaces are changing even more than usual because of that. Also, our homes, our habits, our expectations, and the ways we approach everyday problems may be changing, too. And it's all happening while we're busy living our ordinary lives. We're going to work, raising families, taking care of people we love, paying bills, making dinner, and trying to keep up with everything else. Some of us are enthusiastically experimenting with AI. Others are proceeding cautiously. Some have already incorporated it into daily routines without making a particularly conscious decision to do so. And we're not all having the same experience. Obviously. Because we don't bring the same histories, abilities, opportunities, responsibilities, interests, or concerns to this technology. So I don't think we should assume that we're all experiencing the same changes. But here's what interests me. I think AI, in particular, because of how rapidly it simply became embedded in our lives, is bringing a level of personalization to our experiences that other previous technological revolutions simply may not have equaled. And because of the extraordinary speed of change, I want to ask the following: **ARE WE TAKING THE TIME TO NOTICE WHAT'S HAPPENING?** Not to reach some grand conclusion about whether AI is good or bad, but simply to stop for a moment, think about what we're experiencing, and perhaps learn something by sharing our observations. That's what I'd like to explore throughout November and maybe December -- Ordinary people, living ordinary lives, during a rather extraordinary period of change. **Question: Have you noticed anything changing in your personal or professional life because of AI? What's been most interesting or surprising to you?** #Sunday #SundayFunday #SundayPartDeux #Monday #MondayMotivation #November #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AICreep #HumanExperience #EverydayLife #ProfessionalLife #HumanCenteredAI #HumanFlourishing