Asking if you're for or against AI captures the ambivalence most of us feel, but doesn't help us use it well.

Zhēn (真), a Chinese character for "true nature," offers a benchmark: Does a use of AI bring out our best?

Most AI systems default toward agreement, and you can counter-configure them for critical assessment.

You likely use AI and find it in certain ways efficient, helpful, and occasionally seemingly brilliant. I do. Sometimes I feel like it lights up my brain.

You may also find AI enormously frustrating as it flattens your ideas and dulls your thinking, as if it’s stripping away parts of your essential self. And you may be thinking, “Regardless of what I think, AI is happening, and if I don’t keep using it and keeping up with it, I’m going to be left behind in the job market.”

Thus, in my post’s title—Are you for AI or against AI?—I provided the answer that I think many of us would, which is “Yes.” The question captures psychological ambivalence. But it doesn’t go far enough to provide ways to understand the fundamental characteristics and pitfalls of AI. And that’s important, because with those in hand, we can better design and use AI well, by which I mean wisely—to bring out the best that is human in terms of intelligence, authenticity, relationality, creativity, morality, and sparkle.

That is what this blog is about. And I have named it with a word that may be unfamiliar to you.

The Chinese character Zhēn (真) means true, real, or genuine.........

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