Show your work

The first search engine felt a bit uncomfortable to use with having a computer tell us the answer to any question we typed in. But still, you had websites to choose from to see that answer.

AI is different in that (with a few exception) the user doesn’t see how it came to the conclusion it did.

Which is fine when asking what temperature to preheat your oven when baking a loaf of bread. But when we are trusting the machine to tell us how to think, how to feel, who to date, where to work, where to live—we are turning over the best part of what it is to be human…

…Agency, curiosity, exploration, creativity.

We don’t always need the “right” answer to every question. What we really seek is clarity.