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The Cerebral Prosthetic Trap — Gen Z's Warning to AI Users · 10X AI with Julius Neil

• Julius Neil Buenconsejo: Good day everyone, so I'm here again for my next episode. My guest right now is, he's going to be the youngest guest in my podcast because I'm going to discuss about ⁓ generational gaps when it comes to AI. So I have here Tilak, and Tilak is still a student, but he's an author also. So Tilak, can you introduce yourself to our viewers and audience? Tilak: Thank so much Julius and I really appreciate this opportunity to be with you today. ⁓ about me, so I'm Tilak, I'm 16 years old. As you just said, I'm a young author. So I've written my first book, just published it in the last year. And really the most holistic way to put it, I'm just a young individual who's just ready to make mistakes and ⁓ learn from experiences through those mistakes and learn new things and progress. Julius Neil Buenconsejo: ⁓ for the viewers, I was by the article that you wrote about AI, because as a writer, and then a Gen-Z as well. So I would like to know your perspective about writing when it comes to Gen-Z. So why did you write this article? And can you tell the audience what is the title of this article? Tilak: Yeah. Yeah. Okay, so you can find the article on like LinkedIn. Basically, it's my perspective on AI as a Gen Z author. And being the author myself, I know the different notions present around the usage of AI in terms of creating content. But on top of that, before I go into my perspective, or my reasoning behind writing the article, I want to talk about my book a little bit and why. Julius Neil Buenconsejo: Mm-hmm. Tilak: I wrote the book first. So my book is about my spiritual guru. And before I go into his life, just felt some things when I was younger, felt as if, if I if I if I have time might as well, you know, invest in a good project. And over some time, I've kind of played with myself, figured out a way to, you know, think about a good project through which not only I can learn something, but I can better a skill as well. Right. So throughout the whole process, I thought about writing a book about his life. And the way I went with it is because I'm much younger, I had to, you know, invest some more time in figuring out how, you know, I should express my ideas, express express my thoughts. And I started back when I was probably 11, 12 years old. But then I was much younger. So I started and then I stopped eventually. But end of last year, last last year, I began. writing the book. about my guru. So his name is Pramukh Swami Maharaj You can find him online if you just have a quick search. Basically, what inspired me to write about him is three specific points. One character, two culture, and three community. Whenever you look at anyone who's famous or anyone who's got a lot of status or prestige, they often have two traits. ⁓ One, they end up showing off humility. And the other one is more outgoing. You can see humility in them. And I really saw humility in him, even though I haven't really interacted with him on a one-to-one basis. Even there's that massive gap, I was still able to see through his different, through different incidents that I read about him, the different things I've seen throughout his whole life. I saw that aura around him. and there's three things that I just mentioned. Character. he passed away at age of 95 and he became the spiritual guru of the BPS organization, which is a social spiritual organization. It's a global organization as well. So you can imagine the different tasks that being the head of such a massive organization could be. Right. So number one, character. Throughout his whole time as a spiritual guru, as a spiritual head of the organization. You can clearly see his ability to connect with people. And nowadays in this world of AI, we're that distinction between figuring out a way to connect with others. And that's being lost through generations. Especially in my generation, you can have a look, people are more addicted ⁓ to their than going outside and having ⁓ a cricket or around, right? So I saw his ability to connect with people of all ages. That's number one. Number two, community. Nowadays, people are becoming more self-interested and through all the campaigns he ran, different ways, he was able to connect with the community at large as well. And things like de-addicting them from drugs. It's something that people know about, but no one's really bothered to speak out against or just have that conversation with someone and tell them, This is harmful for you. You should stop. The initiative itself shows his ability to connect with a large audience. And number three, culture. He was able to build over 1,200 temples around the world the span of around 45 years. And that itself is a feat and shows his ability to be organizational and his ability to execute tasks with multiple people. ⁓ making house, for example, you've got to Julius Neil Buenconsejo: Hello. Tilak: being in contact with so many different contractors, different people. Similarly, a temple is just 10 times the house, if you think about it. The scale is just much bigger. So you can imagine all the work that's put behind each temple. that just shows his life. So I was really inspired from it. And I thought about writing it from ⁓ perspective as a Gen Z, you could say. And yeah, that was the reasoning behind writing the book. But now the article. So After writing the book, getting it published, I thought about, you how can I really connect his message to the world? And yeah, that whole process led me to, you know, writing articles about my perspective. And that's why I wrote this article about ⁓ my or my take on AI as a Gen Z author myself. So mainly in the article, I talk about how people are forgetting the fact that AI is more of a prosthetic, which is something we might talk about later in the talk, ⁓ how it's more of a helping tool than really just something that's there on your laptop. It's really something that should help you out in the whole process. So I just wanted to a bunch of different points like that out throughout the article. And yeah, that was the main intention. Julius Neil Buenconsejo: Mm-hmm. Before we go into the details of the article, I was very by your on this spirituality and all this. And then you have this guru, you have this model that you wanted to follow. ⁓ And suddenly at this age, how come you in this path compared to the normal Gen Z who are just ⁓ playing PlayStation or Xbox or just you know... Tilak: Yep. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Julius Neil Buenconsejo: doing TikToks or Facebook or Reels or YouTube. Why did you choose to be like this? Tilak: Yeah. So the answer is in his life itself. yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm part of a spiritual family, ⁓ you could say, but basically from a young age, ⁓ through the temples that he's built around the world, he's been able to inspire not only me, but thousands of other children just like me into, you know, staying away from, you know, being addicted to, you know, reels and stuff. He's not saying that it's bad, but we're not saying it's bad or whatever. But whenever you over-engross yourself into it, it becomes something that, you know, degrades your capacity. Right. So every week we go to the temple and over there, there's different assemblies that take place. And that's where we learn as our youth of our age. learn different values. We learn what is right, what's wrong. In simple English, that's basically what you should be understanding and through that platform that he's provided for thousands of ⁓ kids, students, youth around the world. where I've I inspired. That's that you could say is the main foundation or the main basis through which I was inspired to write about his life. But yeah, it was through those different assemblies that I realized that, you know, I should leverage the time that I have right now. Being young is you could a plus point. So down the track, I may get more busy. I may have other responsibilities to look after. So right now, I thought that if I'm just going to waste my time on TV and stuff, might as well do something productive where I can not only learn something, but I can also provide a message to the world. Julius Neil Buenconsejo: You are very, a young kid, you're very inspiring already at this point of ⁓ journey and your life. So I'm very impressed by what you're doing right now. going to the article, so you suggested that maybe that AI could be the end of average writing, not the writing itself. So what does quality writing mean ⁓ in era of AI? What do you think? ⁓ What the quality writing? Because AI basically... Tilak: Thank you. Yeah. Julius Neil Buenconsejo: is very good at writing, right? So what is the quality that you are as a Gen Z author looking for as a quality writing? Tilak: Yeah. Yeah. So when I was writing my book, I didn't really engage with AI too much because I was much younger. But now that I look back at it, what AI really helps in doing and what I tend to use it for is creating frameworks. look, large language models, LLMs, they're able to spit out information. But currently, as of 2026, start of 2026, you can't really see meaning or you can't really see what AI really helps in doing and what I tend to use it for is creating frameworks. look, large language models, LLMs, they're able to spit out information. But currently, as of 2026, start of 2026, you can't really see meaning or you can't really see that emotion that emotion that fuels human because right now it's an advantage to be a human. You've got to realize that because you don't currently I'm talking about this like today, for example, 31st of 2026. Right now, if you look at AI that you can't really see emotion in that down the track, they may be advancements that curate that sort of human touch it. But as of now, you clearly see that the text that's being generated isn't too crazy. looks good on paper and it does its job, but you can see that it's not human. whenever I see quality writing, if I'm able to gather some sort of meaning out of it, then reckon that's quality in the end. But sometimes in the whole process of using AI, people often forget that often talks in loops. If you have read of different articles that if you just ask it to write an article about about any topic, if you just ask ChaptGPT you will see there's some sort of like loop process, it comes back to the same point here and there. It's visible. So that's still as of now and down the track, will probably disappear. But as of now, you can see that sort of artificial touch to it. But by realizing that you have an advantage being a human, someone who has intelligence them, who's able to curate ideas, be creative with them. by realizing that you have an advantage being a human, someone who has intelligence in them, who's able to curate ideas, be creative with them. you should realize that if you actually use it to your advantage, you'll be able to curate meaning. that ⁓ is really creates quality writing, you should realize that if you actually use it to your advantage, you'll be able to curate meaning. that ⁓ is really creates quality writing, in my opinion. Julius Neil Buenconsejo: Do you think that we are also redefining creativity itself by using AI? Tilak: 100%. Um, if you see over history, there's always trends that take place. And currently when a trend where we're entering an era where people need to prove that they're not machines, it may sound a bit insane. may sound a bit extreme, but it is kind of the case. If I'm publishing something, I may need to say, I mean, you didn't explicitly say that I've not used AI for this. And I could be put into trouble down the track. There may be regulations that take place down the track that enforce people to admit whether they've used AI or not. But things like deepfakes, things like that, things that generate that are being generated now, that was going to happen eventually. But this is the distinction that we have to make that AI is, it is it is, and we've got to just live with it and leverage it to the best of our ability. Julius Neil Buenconsejo: into that, it means we have some human narrative always when it comes to writing, right? So there will be a lot of human experience when writing, When writing, the creativity, the environment, the environment also affects us, the mood, the feeling, or the experiences or frustrations that we have. Do you think that human experience still is essential to me in storytelling? Because say I cannot do this. Tilak: Yeah, always. Yeah, absolutely. Yep. Yep. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, it's absolutely very important. Any form of human experience is it's multilayered. So for us, it may on paper when you write it down, it's 45 lines, but it may have a 50 line impact down the track or it may have a 50 line impact in your brain itself or the way you think overall. So yeah, it's very important. Julius Neil Buenconsejo: Right, AI cannot do this. Yeah, you know that AI can handle a lot of data, logic, and then the structures are very, and then the frameworks are very organized. But do you think there will a time that it can grasp the soul, ⁓ the soul of writing the perspective the live experience? But do you think there will be a time that it can grasp the soul, ⁓ the soul of writing the perspective and live experience? Tilak: 100%, down the track, writing is gonna be something that people won't even worry 100%, down the track, writing is gonna be something that people won't even worry about. It will just be the quick prompt and there you go. You've got your text, you've got a whole book, for example. could probably do that right now as well. Look, quality may be bad as of now, but down the track, 100%, there's gonna be much better software, much better systems ensure quality quantity. So right now you can probably see quantity, but there's no quality there. But down the track, you will see quality come through. So yeah, 100 % that's gonna happen down the track. But for now, as I mentioned before, seeing that meaning in the writing is most important in terms of quality writing, but yeah. Julius Neil Buenconsejo: But I'm saying, so we have different generations, right? So have Gen Z, have Boomers, have Gen X. So when it comes to ⁓ the interpretation between borderline between assistants and outsourcing authorship, what do you think about it? Yeah. So Gen Z, have Boomers, have Gen X. So when it comes to ⁓ the ⁓ interpretation ⁓ between the borderline between assistants and outsourcing what you about it? Yeah. Tilak: Yeah. ⁓ okay. Yeah. So across generations, if you have, if you tend to have a look, there's always going to be some sort of gap. Yeah. ⁓ okay. Yeah. So across generations, if you have, if you tend to have a look, there's always going to be some sort of gap. And sometimes, using AI may be a blessing or it may be a curse in disguise. ⁓ but it depends on the audience you're trying to talk to, of course, right. ⁓ it's their human experience as well. So if someone has a preconceived experience or a preconceived notion about something, You can't really change that. You've got nothing in your power to really alter that, but each generation has their own traits, qualities, and their interpretation of writing will always be different compared to the other generation. Just how it works and it's how society has been developed or how it just works. Right. So through the use of AI, you can tap into, you know, writing specific to a specific age group, right? But you may not be able to curate that specific feeling in them because AI doesn't have that human experience. But if you tap into both human experience and AI being able to talk to a mass audience, then you should be able to curate a better message that's more well-rounded to different generations. Julius Neil Buenconsejo: As someone from Gen Z of course you can already spot the bland AI And then you said, your generation values authenticity. So do you think when you, for example, you read some articles in articles or some posts in LinkedIn that is AI generated, you can already spot that? So do you think it's not authentic, even though they are conveying an information? based for example in professional way that these are our experience, but we use AI to convey that our audience. Tilak: Yeah. So honestly, being authentic is very important, but it's also about using time and using it and using it to your advantage. Thing was Gen Z is being able to see whether it's AI or not a distance. It's just because imagine you've been given the same type of rice, example, for like two weeks straight, same rice every single day. And the 15th day you've There's some sort of change in that rice. You're going to spot it. You're going to see that. Okay, this is different. That's what tends to happen. And right now we're in a timeframe where that's visible. That change is visible. That change of AI is visible. But down the track, and you can kind of see it now, sometimes AI videos look real. Why is that? Because we've been exposed to it way too much. So it tends to feel normal. So that trend is now becoming a reality. So it's nothing bad overall. Julius Neil Buenconsejo: Yeah. Tilak: But authentic is ⁓ plus in my opinion. ⁓ It's selling point in terms of whatever you're creating. ⁓ And you're creating yourself. So you would have experience in how to actually tap into a mass audience and generate that content, like the that they're trying to get. ⁓ And overall, you're giving them value, mass value is going to get you a good audience down the track. So it's just persistence if you're going to look for authenticity. But you're not, then the speed that AI gives it to you is what's ⁓ is what ⁓ makes it really enticing to use. yeah, authentic is very valuable. Julius Neil Buenconsejo: Do you think, yeah, do you think authenticity is generational or is it timeless? Tilak: generational. I reckon people who haven't used AI as much are just naturally more authentic. And because we've had AI for like what, four or five years now, those people who have been engaging with it from day one, you can see they've already got systems that allow them to use AI really quickly and curate things that look authentic even though it may not be. But that's kind of sad. Sorry to the actual point, but in my opinion, I think for now it's timeless. Maybe down the track, you may see a ⁓ opinion. I don't know. Julius Neil Buenconsejo: Yeah, so I mean it gets better and better every day, you know what I mean, right? Sometimes it's really hard to spot which is AI, which is not, especially the videos and the photos, right? So coming from a different background, you're in Australia, it's a multicultural as well. Even you're Australians, you have Asians, you have Indians, have, you know, all from all over the world. Do you think the cultural context shaped our expectations of real, authentic writing? Tilak: Yeah, exactly. Yeah. 100 % because experience, ⁓ we just talked about, human experience is what, anything you're interpreting, you're watching something, you're reading something. There's always that one small, it's a subconscious feeling that you always have that, that notion's already present. If you've already been exposed to something before, for example, I've had this one experience with a dog, for example, right? Every single time I look at a dog, it's just going to come to my mind. even though I may not specifically think about that. may feel that sense of running away, you're not using it. Similarly, having a cultural blend, a cultural fusion, your overall human experience is going to be much more diverse. So that may be a plus point or it may not be. So for example, if you're looking at something that's more specific, that goes into specifics, you may not have advantage. But if... If you're talking about something much more diverse, 100 % you've got more to talk about, more to interpret from and connect dots to different places. Julius Neil Buenconsejo: So going back to your article, so in your article I saw this cerebral prosthetic trap. What is Tilak: Prostatic. ⁓ So I'll give you an example. So we have glasses, right? Would you call glasses cheating or would you call it vision enhancement? Exactly. So similarly AI is you can compare it to your glasses. It's something that's it's, it's, but it's not cheating. It's something that you're using to enhance your experience, to enhance your ability, to curate ideas curate things. So why is it a prosthetic? A prosthetic is something that's an add on in simple terms, an add on, right? So AI has become a tool that extends memory. things like generating ideas, making sure that you're able to recognize it from patterns. Things like that is what to a human may take time. Like you may need to memorize instead of memorizing a whole textbook, right? You can just ask AI to shorten it up and give you dot points. You can memorize that in much less time. So it's hoping you do that. what I mean when I'm using the prosthetic term is It's something that actually assists you in terms of offloading that working memory that you have. And by offloading that you're able to curate more headspace into looking at different projects you may have been on that one business you're doing stuff like that. AI as an assistant, as something that as a support system is really valuable in terms of your progress or your overall growth. Julius Neil Buenconsejo: So that example of Cerebral prosthetics, do you think the more ⁓ people the more individuals use AI, the creativity diminishes as you go along? Tilak: See, that's thing. So being a creator, you've got to, number one, have that creative spark in you. If you don't have that, some sort of creative spark, then you're a creator just for the name. Because in the end, you have to get that message to some sort of audience, right? If you're not able to get that in a unique way, if you have 10 creators and they're all giving the same message with the same style, then one's really going to be bothered to read it or to really understand it. And the way AI really helps is it gives you a multi-dimensional approach. for example, you're running a marketing campaign. You can ⁓ whatever AI software you use, Claude, whatever you want. It's going to give you, for example, 10 marketing angles, five different structures or a bunch of different hooks based off that one graphic that you provided. I have one poster, I want to get it out there. I don't know how to do it. I want to put it on Facebook somewhere. What should I do? Right. It's going to give you like 10 different options. It's going to give you 15 different ways to present it. And that's what's really the advantage. And that's what's really the plus point with AI. So it's not really going to reduce the creativity. you've got to, you've got to realize that when you're looking for quantity, it's, there's not going to be that quality as of now, but that's where your creative cap needs to be on and you've got to use that that creator mindset to really tap into those ⁓ aspects. Julius Neil Buenconsejo: Okay, so do you think fast forward when AI is so robust and so good that just by typing some prompt and you'll be able to be to publish a book, do you think ⁓ still a good author once have this book in just maybe one or two minutes or if you have this 50 page book or 200 page book? Do you think the authorship also becomes very what you call this? Tilak: Yep. Julius Neil Buenconsejo: commoditized because as an author you have this ability to express yourself right so you have a very small group that can do that right now but when AI becomes very good at writing so everybody can be writer right Tilak: Yeah. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. So that's the thing. So right now we're not living it. So I can't give a specific answer, but you can make a presumption based off whatever's happening right now. So what the future author would be like, wouldn't be someone who has to write more, but they would be someone who has to decide better. The ability to decide whether some things are clickable or not is what's going to be the difference between like the bestselling authors of that time and people who, know, just writing books with AI without any, you know, cross reference or editing or whatever. And the thing is that ⁓ books may not even the future. If you think about it, if we're getting information with Chai GPT literally like ⁓ in two seconds, then why is someone writing a whole 200 page book, right? About the same thing. ⁓ So this whole Julius Neil Buenconsejo: Hmm. Tilak: concept of books is going to be present 100%. It's not going to go anywhere, but it's definitely going to change in terms of the way it's portrayed, the way it's conveyed, the way it's used. It's 100 % going to change. But yeah, that shift between writing to making that decision, making that choice is what's going to be the difference in my opinion, when AI is really good. Julius Neil Buenconsejo: Okay, what do you think some of the skills that the authors, feature authors need most? Like what you said already, like you know, the overall ideation and all this. What do you think are the top three skills or top four skills that a feature author needs to be? Tilak: Yep, yep. you I reckon being able to set a a clear vision that they need to be like locked in on. Cause if they're not, then no matter what AI you use, it's not going to get you the result, even though it's the best. If your vision and that doesn't align, you're not going to like. So number one, vision is very important. Your ability to shape a narrative. Anyone can shape a message. Message, a message could be literally don't throw rubbish on the floor, throw it in the bin, right? Very simple message. But being able to convey it through a narrative is very valuable. So that's number two, being able to shape a narrative. And number three, emotional tone or emotional tonality or something like that. Being able to play with emotions. Because I reckon that's going to be the very big advantage of any writer who's able to actually play with emotions down the track because humans are becoming more, you know, into the screens, into YouTube Shores, Instagram Reels, whatever that is, they're that value between individuals. So being able to show that emotional value through words may get them more like viewership or more audience, ⁓ greater audience. So may be setting point for them as well. So emotion, narrative. Julius Neil Buenconsejo: So most of my podcast guests before, they always say that AI is a co-creator and they argue that AI is a tool that amplifies human potential, not a replacement. Do you think can AI and humans truly co-author in a way that enhances depth and meaning as you are saying, right? this emotional, emotion creativity and that does not dilute something essential. Tilak: Yep, yep. Yeah, so 100 % people, there's probably there's thousands of people out there who are using like them being a human and AI together. Any AI agent. It's not too crazy to make an agent agent nowadays. You can watch one massive long video, understand how it works, the different intricacies involved. Learn and NAN, for example, different software's out there. And you can make it make an agent for yourself. But so using AI and yourself being a human being human plus AI is already present right now. But the first point that you mentioned about being a co-creator, reckon that's 100%. You can always co-create with AI and you should whether whatever you're making with AI, you should always go through it. You should always have your feedback mechanism in place where you can cross check, make sure everything is valid. or message you're trying to curate is conveyed. But I reckon there's a greater need to curate your information. You need understand what to exactly say, what to admit, what to validate, and what the main angle should be. So if you're able to tap into that third body with the human plus the AI, you're going to able to curate a better end product. Julius Neil Buenconsejo: using AI as a co-creator so we can now delve into the other side of co-creating with AI. It is the ethics and attribution. With AI ⁓ writing ubiquitous, how should the industry handle attribution, transparency and originality? Because it's really hard now. ⁓ You're if it's AI, the tone is always the same. The message be ⁓ different, but tone is always very structured. Tilak: Yep. Yep. Yeah. Julius Neil Buenconsejo: So how do you handle the originality transparency attribution? Tilak: I reckon being original is a dream now. I could literally write something on my own. And we've tried this before where you have an essay and you put it into some AI checker and it's going to give you like 60 % AI or whatever. It's kind of hard to prove that I've written this. And often there's a culture that, it's basically a culture where people end up asking, did you actually write this? It's not visible, it's just there. Like people would ask you, if you wrote something, you'd like, did you actually write this or do you use AI? It's just something that is asked nowadays and it is what it is. So being original being authentic, right? They're ⁓ the same thing basically, making that you know whatever your messages you've conveyed it to the best possible degree. That should be end goal. And then there's hope that the message is conveyed. And I reckon that... that desire to feel original, I reckon it's a long past that stage. Julius Neil Buenconsejo: Do you think Arjun Sen should be told when AIS used? Tilak: Personally, mean, I don't see ⁓ depends on what the use cases. If it's critical, something that's legal or something, and you need to make sure it's not been used, it's ⁓ some important and your actual intelligence or your actual understanding power is being put at the test, then yeah, you need to mention. But on a very value, case where you're just working or you're doing something your own, I don't think it should be. But on a larger scale, something you're publishing, something you're, there's legal aspect to it or you're influencing someone's understanding power of influence that you have through writing or through any of content creation, you should mention that's used by AI. Julius Neil Buenconsejo: As a Gen Z in your perspective, when you see an AI written by AI or AI created video, does it influence your trust with the creator? Tilak: personally, kind of and kind of not, depends on the quality of the video. ⁓ cause sometimes the videos you can see like that, they're not that good. so it depends who the creator is. If they've got a long experience or something and you've seen results, ⁓ previously, ⁓ that trust would I really be broken. But if it's someone just new, fresh off the boat and they've, and they're just making those really You can see that they're properly AI and they don't really look good. Sora, it's not in Australia yet. As now, I've not checked. ⁓ But ⁓ see some short here and there, but it looks like it's human as well. But ⁓ eventually, ⁓ can The more you it, the more mass is generated off that same type of content. You can kind of it's AI. But I reckon that trust would only be broken if they're kind of fresh. they've not got sort of previous background or ⁓ career to look at in terms of content creation. Julius Neil Buenconsejo: So as an author, let's look at the future of literacy culture. So if AI makes basic writing accessible to everyone, that's what we discussed a while ago, literature evolve toward more complex forms? Or will the art of writing itself change? Tilak: Yep, complex ones. Okay. Okay, complex forms as in, ⁓ humans, humans are always want everything more easy. That's why we're up to where we are. From light bulb to the car to your phone to your glasses, whatever we use right now, there's always some sort of idea of making life more easier. So in my opinion, it's not going to become more complex. But I feel it's going to and writing itself won't change. But I feel like the way it's conveyed will change specifically. there's gonna be a less reliance on textbooks and large volume of like thick books with just words on there. Because have to realize that there's some sort of emotional evolution that takes place as well. When you're being exposed to short from content for so long, your mind itself changes and it's kinda hard to come out of that cycle. So with... Julius Neil Buenconsejo: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Tilak: AI stuff that we have at our fingertips right now. LLM, ⁓ can get the same information in a thick textbook that looks really overwhelming to ⁓ open up and read. You can get that with just one search. things notebook LM, example, something I use, all you've got to do is just put your source in and you can ask question based off the source. things like is where writing is towards where you've got to just interpret through that. And there's going to be a much more There'll be more engagement with those kinds of solutions rather than ⁓ you know, books and stuff. So yeah, that's what my take is. Julius Neil Buenconsejo: So I'm just curious about now in your school when it comes to AI. Is it open? Is it already open in Australia to use AI in school? depends on the subject. Tilak: I mean, yeah. Yeah, so look, English is always going to be a subject where depends. Personally, it's on the teacher. ⁓ on the school that I go to, different teachers have different tastes. Some will specifically say that don't use AI and they themselves, you can see the works that they give you, they're all AI. ⁓ there's always ⁓ sort of hypocrisy here and there, but ⁓ going to happen with the way AI is present. It's to happen. ⁓ Julius Neil Buenconsejo: That's crazy. The teacher says don't use AI but all of his materials or her materials are AI generated. Tilak: Not all of it, but here and there you could see it's AI. And with different AI, with different elements, you can see the long hyphens and the text, the bolds and everything. You can see the formatting. So basically you can tell that it's AI. But I reckon every single student who wants to progress, they're probably already tapping into some sort of AI or some sort of AI usage. Julius Neil Buenconsejo: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Tilak: Everyone's use case may be different, different subjects, different, whatever, but there's no specific like, ruling by whatever education, ⁓ platform that we have over here ⁓ you can't use AI. but I reckon even if, even if anyone says don't use AI, no one's going to stop because it's like, you're, you're kind of regressing. If you've been given something that's beneficial, why would you stop using it? And if it's, it's, if it's a free use case and yeah. So, ⁓ yeah, so right now, no one's saying no, but. Julius Neil Buenconsejo: Correct. Tilak: No one's saying yes, that's awesome. Julius Neil Buenconsejo: Yeah, okay, let's dig deep into the learning and skill development. We already touched this topic a while ago about the weakening of our creativity. So do you think the reliance on AI weaken our ability to think or reflect or to solve problems? Or does it really liberate us to focus on deeper creative work? Tilak: Yeah. Okay. I reckon AI is something that, as I mentioned before, it should be a tool that you use to leverage not your ⁓ human but you're speeding up the way you operate. So you get more headspace to develop skills. my opinion, skill development and things like that with AI, you've got access to a whole library that's just there. All you've got to do is just make the right search. Making the right search is very important. Previously, used to be said is, you know, you've got to ask the right question. Similarly, you've got to ask the right question to not your teacher, for example, but rather this massive large language model that you've got at your fingertips. Because sometimes that's more frankly, it's just more faster. You can't go to the library, that's even though maybe five minutes from your house, you can't go there every single time, open the book and read. We're long, long past that. Now we've got Google as well. So. Stuff like that, in terms of school development, YouTube and different platforms are already present. But yeah, that's very valuable. Using AI to your advantage is very valuable in terms of speeding the process up. Julius Neil Buenconsejo: Okay, so do you think schools should lenient should they allow students to use AI? With certain guidelines. ⁓ Tilak: Personally, should be literally having a subject or some sort of side workshop that students are manually to evolve in where they're taught how to make an AI agent, example. Because we're living in an age where, for example, back in the day, in academia, you would have to write a thesis. People still do. You have to write a thesis, for example. But you're being taught to write to Julius Neil Buenconsejo: Mm-hmm. Tilak: You're being taught how to write, for example, right? That's a very valuable thing. But now learning to use AI is similar. You've got to learn how to use AI. Similarly, how you're going to learn how to write. So that reality of having to learn AI as a very key skill is, I reckon, should be taught as a specific subject, especially for those in, like, what, year seven and eight, where they've got more time. It's not HSC or... any major examination that takes place after the end of high school. if they've got time at a younger age, if they're exposed to different different different systems, then in the end, it's just more beneficial for them because genuinely, the math that learning right now, it's not going to get you places. It's not going to be a long term asset, you could say. But the practical schools learn about, for example, AI, ⁓ That's going to get you further. It's going to speed up your progress and help you learn more overall. Julius Neil Buenconsejo: Yeah, so you said in your article that it should be, know, the readers want voice and perspective over polish. How do audiences perceive AI-assisted versus fully human writing today? What are the signals that truly resonate emotionally in your generation? Tilak: voice is something. Yeah. ⁓ Yeah. Yeah. I can't really talk for everyone in my generation, but I'll talk for myself for now. If I, if I ever see any, any form of content, if I'm able to see some sort of some sort of unique viewpoint, some sort of perspective, then can kind of tell that, they've got some sort of voice happening 110%. That person has used some sort of AI to make whatever message that they're trying to Julius Neil Buenconsejo: Uh-huh. Tilak: generate because everyone uses it and it's nothing wrong. It's the same as glasses. It's not cheating. You're enhancing your process of making content, right? But being able to generate that content with a perspective is where the voice is visible. So seeing that voice is only possible if that perspective is present. So for me personally, if I'm able to see perspective specifically in that content form, then... It's green flag. Julius Neil Buenconsejo: Okay, that's nice. That's nice. It's a very good insight. we are now moving into the last stage of our and I'm very thankful about and grateful about all this perspective you have shared with, especially your personal perspective as a Gen Z person. Because they are different generation. So at least most of our viewers and audiences will now know, what's in the mind of the Gen Z because ⁓ you are the ⁓ target market. of businesses, of professionals and companies as well. So let's go to the Rapid 10x. So I will have 10 questions for you. You can answer, can elaborate about it. So number one, what's one tool you actually use every day? AI tool. Tilak: Okay, I don't use one specifically every day, but I use a whole point. So I don't want a single one out, but there's Claude, I use notebook LM for different ⁓ subjects that like intense, like amounts of like a longer, volume of learning. For those subjects, use LM. ⁓ Julius Neil Buenconsejo: Uh-huh. Tilak: But yeah, those are the main three. Julius Neil Buenconsejo: Okay, and then next is what's one task AI has already done next in your life? Tilak: Yeah, so as I mentioned before, framework. So able so I can have that rough thought in my head, but with AI, think I'm not able to curate clear frameworks really easily. And yeah, that's something I have to next thing. Julius Neil Buenconsejo: And then what's one human skill AI can ever replace? Tilak: For now, making meaning, being able to generate some sort of meaning from sentences, text, whatever, ⁓ what matters and that's what's ⁓ human skill that is very valuable. Julius Neil Buenconsejo: So if you could automate one annoying thing forever, what would that be? Tilak: reckon it would be something about some, sort of admin stuff, like things about things like scheduling file management, all that stuff. If there's some sort of automation there, then yep. Julius Neil Buenconsejo: Okay, so what's the biggest misconception about AI right now? Tilak: I reckon people thinking that AI will human. For now, not the case. AI is AI, humans are humans. But AI is more about pattern amplification, being able recognize patterns. It's not a sense of consciousness. It's not got any sort of, you know, ⁓ wisdom or awareness or any sort human attribute that humans have in built. Julius Neil Buenconsejo: What advice would you give someone who wants to become starting today? Tilak: I reckon AI to think and not to avoid thinking and build and not just practice prompting and that stuff. Try and build a system for yourself that you can rely upon whenever for any case. Julius Neil Buenconsejo: Okay, so this is a very hypothetical one because you're still young. what would you tell your younger self about the future? Assuming that you're already maybe, you know, 25 or 26 years old right now. Tilak: Okay, would say, ⁓ me think, I would say, don't work on skills that a machine could essentially copy. Try and build some sort of depth in whatever you're trying to go into. And yeah, probably. ⁓ Julius Neil Buenconsejo: Okay, I just want to one follow up question about this. So what do you think in your perspective right now, what is those skills that can be replaced by AI? Tilak: replaced. There was a podcast where, so there's someone called Jeffrey Hinton. I'm not sure if you've heard of his name. He's one of the, the co, like he was, you can call him a founder of AI. can someone who's there in the process of making artificial intelligence. He has, he has a talk with someone. forgot, I forgot his name. He says rather become a plumber than do anything else right now. You party earn more. You party generate more value from being a plumber, but Julius Neil Buenconsejo: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Tilak: Skills, genuinely any school can be replaced nowadays from design to video editing to writing and I have experience in that so I can see the exact relevance. But I reckon if you've got any skill, for example, design, something I like to do my free time as well. you really go deep into it and you kind of make a system for yourself, building that system where you can leverage AI plus your own skill, then you'll probably get you'll probably be much ahead. ⁓ Julius Neil Buenconsejo: Yeah. Tilak: AI is going to be that it's going to try to replace it, but you've just got to stay strong and just use it to your advantage. Julius Neil Buenconsejo: what's one book, podcast or resource that shaped your thinking about AI or innovation? Tilak: Innovation. was a book I read some time ago. It's called, I'm pretty sure it was the Lean Startup by someone named Eric. forgot his last name. Lean Startup. talks about how to actually innovate and curate a, try and scale your curate MVPs and stuff like that. That will ensure, you know, a mass volume of audience and you'll be able to curate a better business out of that sort of innovation mindset. Julius Neil Buenconsejo: Mm-hmm. Tilak: you've generated. So that's a book I've read. Yeah that's a book. Not really always but I've read it before it was a pretty good read. Yeah. Julius Neil Buenconsejo: That's it. And then that's book that you always go through when comes to innovation. ⁓ you had to bet on one AI trend that will be massive in three years, what is it? Tilak: Right now, ⁓ really sure, but if you have a look for the past year or so, I reckon AI agents plus some sort of automation in workflow of different types of businesses, if anyone's to get into that, then you can kind if you actually scale properly, you could probably see some sort of success in that trend. Julius Neil Buenconsejo: In Sydney or in Australia in general, how is AI transformation integration going on? Is it fast or is it not? Tilak: I mean, personally, I wouldn't really know too much because I'm not really a business owner or I've got made a business that big that I really require some sort of workflow automation. there is a hundred percent same for because this is more of a global thing than just countries. I reckon there's a hundred percent businesses that are like relying on different AI agents Julius Neil Buenconsejo: Okay, so my last question, what does 10x mean to you personally? Tilak: 10x is about building leverage so the effort essentially compounds over time and you're not just having to repeat the same task over and over again. Julius Neil Buenconsejo: very good, insightful 10X round with you. ⁓ And ⁓ if our viewers, if our listeners would like get in touch with you, Mm-hmm. Tilak: ⁓ You can find the book on Amazon. It's called Beyond And yeah, you can have a quick search and you'll find it there Julius Neil Buenconsejo: Okay, where do they find you? ⁓ Tilak: my profile on LinkedIn. You can follow me there and just search my Julius Neil Buenconsejo: Okay, all right. Thank you very much, Tilak, and I enjoyed our conversation. So this is the end of our episode with our Gen Z guest. I hope you guys learned a lot from him and the perspective that ⁓ Gen Z generation have right now. And I hope it would help you curate some of your messages to their generation. So thank you very much