Bill Gates Is Wrong. A New Decade of Human Excellence Is Coming

AI's Legal and Ethical Challenges | Edition #197

Bill Gates has been saying that in the next decade, humans won't be needed for most things, but he's wrong.

A new decade of human excellence is coming, but not for the reasons most people think.

AI is changing how we live and work, and many people already use AI on a daily basis for work, productivity, or personal tasks.

But what we've learned to appreciate, especially in professional contexts, is excellence.

And by excellence, I don't mean working like a computer, calculating fast, or producing lots of coherent and human-sounding texts.

I mean excellent execution.

From authenticity to personal communication, from emotional awareness to human connection, from attention to detail to sincere care.

I'm sorry, but only humans can do that.

Until AI becomes biological (if it somehow becomes, one day), it can't achieve this level of excellence, especially during execution.

Many people think that just because anyone can use ChatGPT to generate text or images, it means everyone will become a writer or a designer, and we won't need humans to do that anymore.

Absolutely not.

It only means that the excellence bar has been raised.

Now, excellent professionals will have to do their job, considering that there are many mediocre professionals using ChatGPT and other AI tools trying to compete with them.

The excellent execution, including its raw human touch, will be very different from the mediocre, AI-powered delivery. We are already seeing that.

The upcoming decade will see an explosion of excellence from humans who almost organically connect with their work or art and understand what they are doing from a deeply human perspective.

The AI-powered delivery doesn't have human grounding and cannot sustain itself.

It's attached to a specific technical means and cannot expand beyond the technical means.

It sounds a bit like a broken recording repeating itself. Its human pilot cannot bring it to life.

I think that more and more people will want to see and experience the raw human touch behind human work.

And this is excellent.

Excellent professionals will thrive.

See you soon!

Luiza