As artificial intelligence permeates every corner of our lives, one BI writer has a lingering question: Was this written by artificial intelligence?
BI’s Aki Ito puts on her detective hat and goes hunting, unleashing artificial intelligence detectors on every aspect of her professional and personal life. The results were eye-opening and, in at least one case, heartbreaking.
But it also raises a bigger question, a new artificial intelligence worth considering overlord Partners take up a bigger part of our lives: why is it so important to us whether it was created by artificial intelligence or humans?
When it comes to writing, people like Stanley Druckenmiller see no argument. Honestly, I get it.
People like Aki and I who write for a living are understandably sensitive about outsourcing our writing to artificial intelligence. Why worry about outsourcing your writing to a robot when you’ve already invested billions?
Of course, when artificial intelligence gets closer to us, the tune tends to change. A 2025 survey of Wall Street’s most data-obsessed investors, quants, found that most are not using artificial intelligence to invest. Last year, many of them told BI that they were not interested in the technology.
Even noted venture capitalist and AI optimist Marc Andreessen thinks AI falls short in one specific area: getting his job done.
We should all be sensitive to the spread of artificial intelligence for one simple reason.
This technology can quickly go from a handy tool to something you can use. Just look at engineers, who are by far the group hardest hit by artificial intelligence.
A software engineer’s post about how coding artificial intelligence has made the job “suffocating” has gone viral.
“People are working 12 to 13 hours a day just to hit the enter button,” he said. “No one thinks anymore.”
Before long, those skills you entrust to artificial intelligence will degrade. Think of it as the atrophy of artificial intelligence.
I realize I sound a bit like Henry Ford’s salesman right after he introduced the Model T. Becoming an AI Luddite is not a realistic path for most of us who want to keep our jobs. To some extent, the use of artificial intelligence is inherently a requirement.
Like Aki, I find it a useful sounding board when working on drafts. it Hate My dad was joking, but so were a lot of you.
But handing the keys over entirely to AI companies does come with risks, especially when they are still trying to figure out their business models. What happens when the price of a tool you depend on suddenly increases by 20%? We quickly forget what it was like when the Millennium Living Allowance ended.
Now my AI editor is suggesting I revert it to a human author, but I think I’ll end it here. After all, one has to stay sharp.