The Many AIs, My Evolving Approach
Here’s what keeps coming up for me about AI: we’re calling a lot of different things by the same name. There are the tools themselves. ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot. Image generators like Midjourney, DALL-E, Stable Diffusion. Voice cloning, video synthesis, coding assistants. A dozen categories of software, all lumped under one umbrella term. But there’s another layer that I think matters just as much: the perspectives people bring when they talk about AI. How you feel about these tools depends a lot on where you’re standing. Whether you see opportunity or threat, convenience or risk, the future of work or the end of it. We’re not just using different tools; we’re coming at this from completely different places. And I think that’s shaping adoption, trust, and the conversations we’re having about what AI should and shouldn’t do. ...