I read a piece on linkedin from an entrepreneur who is encouraging his employees to use AI to put themselves out of a job.

In theory an employee who follows that advice will then have the ability to move on to more interesting jobs and challenges.

Even if his intentions were good, I’m sure what many of his staff were actually hearing was “you should train your replacement before we fire you”. ¹

The internet is destroying our civilization. And AI, with its ability to create fake content and exploit human weakness at scale, will only accelerate the the problem. However, there is an opportunity to turn this around if we use the motivation to get online to our advantage. In fact, harnessing this motivation has the capacity to do more for humanity than most schools. But first we need to treat the internet with the respect it deserves which means creating a something akin to a drivers license.