I was thinking … more and more content is being pushed to all platforms with use cases of AI in your day to day routine. The big question still remain, do you truly, really need it? Let me explain.
I have just finished reading a really interesting book called “Agentic AI: Wie Sie die KI für sich arbeiten lassen“ which translates intro “Agentic AI: How the AI will work for you“. What I liked about the book is that there are some very interesting AI projects presented, always with the asterix in the end. You are able to manage your email but * take care of all permissions you give to your agent as it can ruin your email. Build yourself a wiki but again, * take security into consideration as the agent can delete everything if the permissions are given. Always with an asterix which I believe is the best approach in getting into AI.
There are some undeniable advantages which AI can provide. Summarizing huge amount of data, help in suggesting ideas, automate tools and processes and the list goes on. AI is here and it’s here to stay. What I mean with the fact that we truly really need it are examples like giving it access to your mailbox, your files, your entire life without the asterix mentioned above.
Let’s take emails for example. Why would you need an agent to look through your emails and write emails for you? I simply don’t see the benefit of this integration outside of giving away your most important data to the agent operated in another country. The control is no longer there … and even if you delude yourself that you will check all the right check-marks from the beginning you will be asked again maybe for an update maybe for an additional configuration. Like in the example of social media, the illusion of control is given but in the background your data is being used for whatever purpose that company decides to.I believe that our attention span should dictate how many things we remember in a day. We are already bombarded with so much information that in theory can be centralized by an AI, but the risk of becoming “robots“ ourselves is too great. We should have the time to organize our day, each morning, not for an AI to organized it for ourselves…yet another tool that you must oblige to start your day.
Similarly I believe the fight for your data and personal information is being done from the big AI Firms. The message seems to be “If you truly want to use our agent, let go of control and let us help you as you are not able to help yourself“.
Another example taken from the book was organizing a wiki. Very well described, with security in mind, you can do it. Again my question is should you? Do you truly need to remember everything since a few years, with the help of AI or the data is more or less given to AI to process it, organize it and present it in a nicer form. It can do everything for you, but why? We are chasing things that are beyond our power to remember and the only winner is in the end the AI who get’s access to your data.
I know that I might sound as an AI skeptic and probably you are not mistaken, nevertheless that does not stop me in playing with AI almost daily, trying to understand it, trying to keep myself informed and prepared, in this new age of unknown which we face. My advice is that you should do the same, but always take it with a grain of salt. Try to understand the reasoning behind, what you win or what you lose in the process of learning it, and if the loss is greater than the win, just walk away. There are enough other things you can do with AI, don’t limit yourself to the use cases where you lose your personal information or data in the process.
Until next time, TFG
