30 Ways I've Prepared for AI Takeover
30 Ways I've Prepared for AI Takeover
Checklist of activities and strategies for AI Dominance
Random Observation/Comment #851: Clembot is busy so I can enjoy peak fatherhood.
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Why this List?
While it might not happen overnight, it's clear to me the future of white collar digital work will get further automated with AI agents. The tools available today really gives startups a huge advantage to move fast. We may not have the "cost of software going to 0", but at least there's a "cost from hackathon to first customer to 0".
Here are some other ideas of costs to 0 written prior to this whole AI revolution:
Experiment with AI tools - Original human content has been frozen in time. Everything will be derivative and created from generative AI images, video, audio, and 3D models.
Create a small following of friends - There will be so much augmented generative AI content that creators themselves will be disrupted by bots. Consider building a curated following of real people now before everything is inflated by bot-based accounts.
Create habits and update your defaults to make using the audio version of ChatGPT's GPT-4o Advanced Voice Mode or Gemini Live more seamless - I think I'll be one of those in the movie “Her” where I talk to my Clembot. (Side Note: “Her” is highly worth the rewatch.) Hopefully the new iteration of Clembot writes the automations on my behalf.
Write out your suite of test questions - This is worth a list of 30 by itself. I think most of my tests would be a review of my personal requests and testing of selecting capabilities I'm most frequently using.
Organize your static personal data - Dump everything about you into a secured “clemens.txt” file. You'd be surprised how we're fairly unique with less than 50 pages of metadata and sample writings. If the context window is big enough, then there's an easy enough way to organize the idea/essence of Clemens with matched writings stored in a small graph database.
Organize your dynamic data - Consider what you actually create digitally. Are you uploading photos? Writing blogposts? Liking certain content? All of these actions on different platforms should be summarized for a daily learning update from your AI Agent. I think audio, photos, and video analysis will take up too much data for it to be learned at first. If there was an RSS feed of this created data, then what would it look like?
Literally write out the tools you use on a daily basis and consider what your personal secretary would need to make decisions or write drafts - This is likely the top apps on your phone. The history of what you consume is also preference data that is advantageous to know. Hopefully it’ll be a personalized AI Agent curation algorithm with self sovereign ownership vs a YouTube addiction algorithm optimized on time spent consuming video.
Learn management skills - We will all shift from becoming managers of apps to becoming managers of AI agents that use our apps. I think the same delegation and support mindset will be extremely useful as a mental model.
Choose Your 5 images - Especially in the e-commerce world, I suspect we will have the ability to try on glasses, clothes, and other products with yourself as the model. I think you only need a few good images to train a base model and then overlay brand products. See: https://letz.ai/
Focus on process and results - AI will probably optimize the option of how to do things. For example, instead of atrophy of memorizing facts, our brains may lose track on how to do things. For now, it's just coding instructions and solving simple problems, but perhaps in the future it will include solving for financial portfolio management, summarizing news, and complex multi-application tasks.
Learn critical thinking and online skepticism - Who remembers the early days of figuring out patterns and locations of ads on websites? Pop-ups? Promoted posts? Now we'll start seeing amplified misinformation or disinformation that could be quite dangerous when multiplied by others. Perception is going to be skewed to your bubble.
Build your AI reading list - Curation of content is such a highly underrated activity. My feeds are my attention and they should be very lean. These are no longer about crypto projects, but AI tools and news.
Build your AI web of peeps / community - I'm "plugged in" to the web3 community because I've met hundreds of people at conferences that sit in telegram groups, whatsapp groups, discord, and slack channels for the latest news and insights. This is huge for recommended reading lists and conversations with smart people keeping updated with the newest tools. This could be your network that gets you the next job opportunity.
Do a digital reorg - For me, this is an analysis of the source of digital material in the categories of Work, Tools, News, Entertainment, and Comms. Within Work, I do a lot from my phone for staying updated with the market. For News and Entertainment, these can be cut down to the most important trending areas of my interested subreddits. For Comms, I still send a message to someone in my web of peeps I haven't talked to in a few weeks, but maybe my AI will do this on my behalf.
Keep working on digital side projects - The tools are so good that any side project you were motivated to build a few years ago can be a valid project you can complete in a weekend. You want to build a webapp? Try websim.ai
Automate more digital activities - This is more about how you complete your activities. For example, if I am trying to sync up with my wife on the calendar for the week, then we have a shared Google account and calendar we populate. Different activities have easier outcomes when they're connected to multiple services and these actions will be the things that your AI Agent can help you do.
Investing into AI powered tools - A $20/month subscription is actually not that bad if you can really create value from it. My AI-specific tool set costs are narrowed down to ChatGPT Plus ($20), Anthropic Claude ($20), Heygen ($20), and Midjourney ($10). Claude 3.5 Sonnet was amazing for some programming projects and data analysis. Heygen was for my clembot series, which I still have enough credits for doing 30 more videos, but I don't need a monthly reset of value.
Consider the impact of AI Ethics and Regulations - What should I disclose for usage of AI? Are all of my deliverables going to be criticized for being optimized with the tools I use? What's my stance on copyright or payment to original creators?
Dream about features for my AI Tutor - This is a fun exercise. How would you want to be taught a certain skillset? What would I ask a human tutor? The feature dreaming is about interaction and also reminders in everyday habits.
Relearn how to Learn - I'm much more of a "learn by teaching" person, but what if we have a learn by building demos? Perhaps it's fully learning by unlimited questions and asking questions from multiple angles for clarification. Maybe it's learning by reading Wikipedia articles and then diving into multiple links? This unlimited interaction and discovery on topics could be a huge unlock.
Learn AI by teaching AI - I felt much more connected to the tools when I needed to share something on a monthly basis. My full list of AI workshops are on YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLu-MJ-kMc3bxu2vxmmuO2-eNGsOxmnYZK&si=zI3MOPWYvUCw1JN6
Consider how Evie would be impacted by a fully AI automated world - This was another fun list of 30 exercise as I was thinking through the impact to reading comprehension or thought processes of a developing mind with a superpower tool. You can compare this to the introduction of calculators, Wikipedia, autocorrect for spelling, keyboard recommended words, and audio recordings.
Study AI Biases - Hallucinations are inevitable, but they will reduce over time with more reinforcement learning and personalized feedback. I think the data a particular AI is trained on will determine its tendency for being more inflammatory to optimized on engagement. Will AI bots just flood everything? Could there be a non-AI influenced Internet?
Look at AI and personal finance - When my AI Agent gets its own bank and brokerage account set of APIs, then what will it trade and how much will be returned? Is it just going to send me trade alerts? Do I need to pay a one-time package cost to train the AI with text?
Complete my Try Guys list - https://www.listsof30.com/p/30-try-guy-things - This list was created to emphasize the importance of non-digital activities. I'm still slowly chipping away at this.
Work on leadership and public presentation skills - There will be an in-person premium for a lot of activity and probably a preference by most people to get away from remote work. The ability to be personable is more important than ever when the Internet can be so disingenuous.
Stay motivated - I've gone through all the phases of grief thinking about AI. I'm currently in the acceptance phase with need to communicate my feelings.
Rewatch old Sci-fi movies - I'm so impressed by writers being able to predict these technological changes and create a whole universe around its impacts.
Diversify my skillset into blue collar work - Home improvement is top of mind. Probably need to do some outdoor survival training. Gig work 2.0 will be driven by AI requests with market pricing.
Include "please" and "thank you" into my LLM prompts - Perhaps the overlords will spare me for being polite.
~See Lemons Prep for AI Takeover
