The free citizen with liberating technology!?

It is surely undisputed that, in today’s global village, we need more information than we did in the villages of the good old days, where the neighbours knew everything about everybody before he or she did. In other words, we ourselves need the data. And that, in turn, means we must learn how to make use of the available data.

Artificial intelligence can help organise this flood of data — and it’s better at it than we are with our tiny cerebral cortex. And we have more influence here than we did with the good old newspapers (even if we still like to have them in front of us from time to time — whether weekly or monthly — and our fingers turn black with printing ink). With the old print media and radio/television broadcasters, we could only ask one question: which newspaper should we buy, or which channel should we tune into? With AI, we can ask endless questions. But as everyone should learn: giving an answer is easy; asking a meaningful question is hard. And once you’ve grasped that, the next step is to learn to ask questions that AI can then (help) answer.

For example:

What is responsibility?

Perhaps better:

Is responsibility ‘something’, or does someone have responsibility?

Or even better

What is the problem for which we need to find ‘something’ that will help us solve it? …

Or:

What can AI do?

Perhaps better:

What can I use AI for?

Perhaps even better

What do I want to achieve by using AI? A good mark? Really understanding something? …

Certain others have all the data – but you must, and can, make use of it!