AI Should Make Us Better – Dr. Vivienne Ming

If you’ve ever had a nagging feeling that the way you, and most other people, are using AI right now might actually be doing you harm, our guest this week has the research to back that hunch up.

Dr. Vivienne Ming is a theoretical neuroscientist, entrepreneur, and author who calls herself a ‘Professional Mad Scientist’ and she means it!. She co-founded Socos Labs, a think tank dedicated to the future of human potential, and has spent nearly 30 years working with AI, long before it became a household word. 

Vivienne has founded six startups, served as chief scientist at two others, and her latest book, Robot-Proof, When machines have all the answers, build better people, argues the vast majority of us are using AI the wrong way increasing our risk of cognitive decline and even dementia.

She outlines the right way to use AI so that it makes us sharper versus hollowing us out.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Why having an army of robot minions is not the goal and what to aim for instead
• The skills that predict who thrives with AI
• Why the best decisions are ones neither human nor AI could reach alone
• About Vivienne’s ‘nemesis’ prompt and why it makes her work sharper, and …
• What Vivienne would say directly to the founders of the big AI companies.

We were pretty blown away by the span and purpose of Vivienne’s work, and how she frames thinking about AI. As she says it’s NOT about fear of AI replacing us, it’s about AI defining us.  

Enjoy this conversation with the unique, funny and whip smart Dr. Vivienne Ming.

 

 

Links

Socos.org

Vivienne’s book: Robot-Proof, When machines have all the answers, build better people