# AI and knowledge work > AI and knowledge work [AI](https://wiki.g15e.com/en/pages/Artificial%20intelligence.txt) and ## Notes ### One of the fundamental problems > "What you write down doesn't mean exactly what you think it means. And when it does, it doesn't have the consequences you expected." --[Software Abstractions: Logic, Language, and Analysis](https://wiki.g15e.com/en/pages/Software%20Abstractions%20-%20Logic,%20Language,%20and%20Analysis.txt) ### Thinking about ways to increase competency or productivity Instead of trying to find what humans can do better than AI, find ways to leverage AI to increase . - The argument that there is something that humans are good at but AI is bad at was a futile idea even in the 1950s (e.g., see the various arguments introduced in [Computing machinery and intelligence](https://wiki.g15e.com/pages/Computing%20machinery%20and%20intelligence.txt) and [Alan Turing](https://wiki.g15e.com/pages/Alan%20Turing.txt)'s rebuttals). Rather than looking for such things, it seems better to think about ways to increase the performance of a system composed of AI and humans or how to utilize the value created by AI. For the time being, 'replacement of human resources by AI' will likely involve more cases where humans who use AI well replace humans who use AI poorly, rather than cases where AI directly replaces humans. Related article - [Using GenAI as a learning tool, not a crutch - Stack Overflow](https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/04/04/using-genai-as-a-learning-tool-not-a-crutch/) ### Concerns about value unrelated to competency or production Knowledge activities separated from production also have value. - Even if machines are faster than humans, sports (100m running) are still meaningful. Even after , humans still compete at . Even if AI is smarter than humans, some intellectual activities may continue to have meaning in a form separate from the labor for production. art, etc. claims the loss of 'aura' in , but many works have a larger aura due to reproduction (people still go to the Louvre to see ), and 'reproduction' is meaningless for much conceptual art. - The problem [Alienated labor](https://wiki.g15e.com/en/pages/Alienated%20labor.txt) mentioned by can be alleviated. Of course, for that to happen, implementing is a very important task. ### Flexibility, generalist, optionality - 2025-03-28 - [The Return of the UX Generalist](https://www.nngroup.com/articles/return-ux-generalist/) - 2025-03-11 - [Organization structures in the age of A.I. agents will be fluid, not fixed.](https://x.com/dharmesh/status/1899184692018262272) - ### Different lenses of thinking Why? To instruct AI, and for my own use. - - - … ### Ethics - ## Articles - 2025-04-30 - [Our new AI strategy puts Wikipedia's humans first – Wikimedia Foundation](https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2025/04/30/our-new-ai-strategy-puts-wikipedias-humans-first/) - [Strategy/Multigenerational/Artificial intelligence for editors](https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Multigenerational/Artificial_intelligence_for_editors) - [Generative AI and the Nature of Work](https://wiki.g15e.com/pages/Generative%20AI%20and%20the%20Nature%20of%20Work.txt) - [Working with AI: Measuring the Occupational Implications of Generative AI](https://wiki.g15e.com/pages/Working%20with%20AI%20-%20Measuring%20the%20Occupational%20Implications%20of%20Generative%20AI.txt) ## See also - [Knowledge work in the AI era](https://wiki.g15e.com/en/pages/Knowledge%20work%20in%20the%20AI%20era.txt) - [Software engineering in AI era](https://wiki.g15e.com/en/pages/Software%20engineering%20in%20AI%20era.txt) - [Design in the AI era](https://wiki.g15e.com/en/pages/Design%20in%20the%20AI%20era.txt) - [Generative AI and competency of programmers](https://wiki.g15e.com/en/pages/Generative%20AI%20and%20competency%20of%20programmers.txt) - [New practices for AI-aided programming](https://wiki.g15e.com/en/pages/New%20practices%20for%20AI-aided%20programming.txt)