AI is transforming cognitive work across all areas of human activity.

It is poised to bifurcate humanity into superhumans who are amplified by it and those who become disempowered.

Individuals will be challenged to see if they can stay on the right side of the divide.

AI is now writing its own code and learning increasingly by self-supervision. It’s like an intelligent alien species is now occupying the planet with us and is becoming smarter by the day as it learns about us. How will we live alongside this machine in the future?

One of the major themes in my book, Thinking With Machines, is that AI is poised to bifurcate humanity. It will amplify those with deep knowledge about something while disempowering others who don’t. As a “pracademic” who brought machine learning to Wall Street in the 90s, AI amplified my edge over those who were not aware of its potential. I have continued to use AI to create novel commercial trading strategies since that time.

But in the new era of modern AI, I am forced to consider whether I am becoming obsolete, both as a practitioner and professor. Many of us should be asking ourselves the same question: how do I stay ahead of the machine?

Let’s construct a scoreboard for and against my potential obsolescence, starting........

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