Is It You? The Importance of Figuring Out What It Means to Be Human in the Age of AI

Generative AI poses many challenges, especially for those working in white-collar professions. Computers can now collaborate with us in new and unexpected ways. The humanist view of creative thinking offers a different vision for human flourishing in the age of generative AI. Generative AI has the potential to short-circuit real learning. With AI, there are three options for collaborating with machines. The first is to remove generative AI from the picture altogether and let humans do all the work. The second is to allow the machine to do some of the work, while other tasks, including oversight, are handled by humans. And finally, the third is to outsource the entire task to the machine, letting it do all the work.