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Surviving AI FOMO: Do we all need a digital second brain?
A minister’s complex experiment with an AI agent sparked my existential dread, but here is why we should not hit the panic button just yet.
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The secret to surviving the AI age is not knowing how to build a digital second brain, but simply having the courage to keep experimenting with our first, says the writer.
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I cannot pinpoint exactly when it started, but I have long harboured an acute insecurity about falling behind the technological curve.
If I had to play armchair psychologist to myself, I suspect the anxiety stems from moments of troubleshooting all sorts of tech problems for my parents over the phone while living overseas. Without realising it, you find your voice steadily rising into the receiver: “No, press the source button. HDMI 1!”
