14 more crazy predictions about AI

You don’t need more boring business charts.

They come each day in your feed. Who’s gaining share? Where’s the private equity money flowing? Who just released a new model, and how does it perform on the key benchmarks? What is the new expert consensus on when we’ll have AGI?

Timelines, bubble charts, logo maps, survey results, and all the rest.

It doesn’t matter. It’s just noise.

Maybe Google will overtake OpenAI. Maybe it won’t.

Irrelevant.

Here’s what does matter:

AI is going to change how we work, how we live, and how we interact with each other.

Let’s talk about that. Because that is what you need to know. That is what you need to prepare for. That is where the white spaces are found.

Earlier this week, I made 14 crazy predictions about the future of AI. It was my second most popular post ever (based on subscriber growth), and took us all the way up to #26 on substack’s technology leaderboard!

How about 14 more predictions?

But this time, let’s hear from AI. Let’s hear what it thinks my own list was missing.

It took me about 90 minutes of wrangling with ChatGPT to get predictions that felt right, that felt like something I wanted to share with you. Lots of back and forth and revision, but I think we ended up with some interesting ideas.

Here’s what’s coming if you keep reading:

1. Everybody has an answering service

2. AI as financial bloodhound

3. Compute time as class marker

4. Customer service centaurs

5. Shareable AI

6. Hive mind for hire

7. Death gets weirder

8. AI referees the humans

9. Leaning in to AI authorship

10. Prompt speak goes mainstream

11. Wikification of the world

12. Life becomes a game

13. The privacy arms race

14. AI access as relationship milestone

Plus, an appendix on how to be demanding with AI. I’ll give you access to the entire 90-minute conversation which ultimately generated the content I’m sharing today, in which you’ll see me continuously prodding AI to do better, until it finally produced what I wanted.

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14 MORE CRAZY PREDICTIONS ABOUT AI

I. Everybody has an answering service

CEOs and heads of state don’t manage their inboxes and schedules. Somebody else does it for them.

That “somebody else” is going to become available to everyone.

You text a friend: “Free tonight?”

Insta-reply: “Hey—this is Alex’s digital assistant. Two options: 7:30 or Sunday brunch.”

Five minutes later, Alex (the human) adds in a thumbs up.

And there will be bypass codes, of course.

Certain people get a phrase that routes straight to the human, always. Scammers and spammers get perpetually lost in the cloud.

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II. AI as financial bloodhound

You can try this now, with a prompt. Upload your bank statement, and ask AI to audit it, find wasteful spending, identify places where you may be getting ripped off.

It’s a start. But still a puppy in training.

When it grows, it will (if you want):

• Review all of the financial and legal documentation generated by your life

• Send you texts like: “Found 3 charges that violate the vendor’s own terms.
  Estimated recovery: $142. Want me to pursue?”

• Send your health insurer demands like: “Give me a machine-readable bill. My AI needs to talk to it.”

And maybe your AI bloodhound can talk to the ones employed by your friends. They can share best practices and engage in a bit of friendly competition.

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III. Compute time as class marker