I've been warning people for well over a year that, no matter how they feel about AI, it can't be ignored or denied. It will impact them and their lives in good ways and bad. Putting their heads in the sand and acting as if it's not happening is not a long-term survival strategy. We're living on AI Time, I told them, get used to it. Some have, many have not.
Matt Shumer, CEO and Co-Founder of OthersideAI, gets this. Earlier this week, he penned one of the most important essays of our still-early AI age. Titled simply Something Big is Happening, it carefully explains how the vast expansion and rapid acceleration of AI development and application are unlike anything we've experienced before and how it's set to fundamentally alter society in ways that previous tech epochs, say, the Industrial or Internet revolutions, didn't before.
