ChatGPT: A Partner in Unknowing – Dana Karout

ChatGPT has divided opinion on how artificial intelligence might
shape our future: Is it a harbinger of our demise? Or a friend,
arrived just in time to guide us through our collective unraveling?
As we entangle ourselves with this technology, are there ways we
can use it to transform our intelligence, rather than simply
replicating it? In this week’s essay, writer and adaptive
leadership trainer Dana Karout pokes fun at the ways ChatGPT
mirrors our own limited ways of thinking. Drawing on her work
helping communities navigate conflict and complexity, she pushes us
to resist regurgitating what we already know in situations that
demand new ways of being. As we try to address the existential
challenges mounting around the world—ecological, social,
spiritual—could ChatGPT’s empty spiels help us let go of our
certainties? What true creativity, what real responses to our
moment of crisis, might emerge from our unknowing? Read the essay.
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