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- 0:01SPEAKER_00: Oh, here we go.
- 0:02SPEAKER_00: Okay, great.
- 0:04SPEAKER_00: So let me show this one again.
- 0:18SPEAKER_00: You should be able to see my presentation now.
- 0:22SPEAKER_00: Is that there?
- 0:24SPEAKER_01: It is, yeah.
- 0:25SPEAKER_01: Wonderful.
- 0:26SPEAKER_01: Okay.
- 0:26SPEAKER_01: So today we're going to be talking about
- 0:31SPEAKER_01: AI and using AI for human flourishing.
- 0:36SPEAKER_01: So without further ado,
- 0:39we're going to be looking at some of the opportunities and then
- 0:42I imagine that
- 0:44anyone who's joining this will understand how the world of work
- 0:48is changing and I
- 0:50SPEAKER_01: just want to remind everyone what
- 0:53SPEAKER_01: will not change,
- 0:54SPEAKER_01: you know,
- 0:55what is going to remain uniquely human and how we can use
- 1:00technology to support
- 1:01SPEAKER_01: rather than overwhelm us.
- 1:04SPEAKER_01: And I talk a lot about clarity,
- 1:07which I've just been on my podcast talking about my lack of
- 1:11clarity today.
- 1:12SPEAKER_01: So clarity is going to matter more than ever.
- 1:17SPEAKER_01: And
- 1:18this AI driven world and it's more about our attention and what
- 1:23we are doing with
- 1:25SPEAKER_01: the technology is really,
- 1:27SPEAKER_01: really important now.
- 1:30And one of the things which is amazing and both terrifying is
- 1:38the rapid advancement
- 1:40SPEAKER_01: of AI and the AI companies are actually
- 1:46SPEAKER_01: Quietly or loudly,
- 1:48whatever you would like to view as deciding what the future
- 1:54looks like for us all.
- 1:55And I am of the opinion that we all have a choice in how we use
- 2:05AI and we also have
- 2:06SPEAKER_01: an opinion as well on what we want AI to be for and that we can
- 2:15Start Taking Action Towards That Instead Of Letting The AI
- 2:18Companies Decide For Us
- 2:24And I Think It's Going Back To That What Actually Matters And
- 2:31What Kind Of Lives
- 2:32Are We Actually Trying To Build Here And The Human Part Of This
- 2:39And I've Seen This
- 2:40SPEAKER_01: Playing Out And
- 2:43in China where they've just put some regulations in place
- 2:46lately where they are
- 2:50saying that they want AI not to replace jobs and they want it
- 2:56to be more of a
- 2:57SPEAKER_01: helpful resource in the world,
- 3:01SPEAKER_01: which is definitely how I would like the direction to be headed.
- 3:07SPEAKER_01: So at the end of the presentation, I've got some
- 3:11information that I'll share when I send out the recording with
- 3:17the various links to
- 3:19what you can do to get involved in that because I think it's
- 3:22really important and
- 3:24just kind of going back to where all this tech is getting built
- 3:33and a bit of the
- 3:34SPEAKER_01: sort of
- 3:37the background is onto Silicon Valley you know a lot of people
- 3:41might think it to be
- 3:43this sort of amazing place where there's all this great stuff
- 3:48which is happening
- 3:49which is absolutely true it is but I've been to Silicon Valley
- 3:55a number of times
- 3:57and the reality is there is also a very dark side to the tech
- 4:05industry and
- 4:08I just saw that OpenAI is also filed for its IPO along with
- 4:12Anthropic and the
- 4:15amount of money that is being poured into the AI companies is
- 4:21not at the expense of
- 4:22other of the current well-being of humanity so all the data
- 4:30centres that are being
- 4:31SPEAKER_01: built with you know the
- 4:34SPEAKER_01: The ways they're approaching that, etc.
- 4:35SPEAKER_01: So I'd just be make people aware that,
- 4:38SPEAKER_01: you know,
- 4:39we do want to get involved in some way and to try and make AI
- 4:43for work for humans
- 4:45SPEAKER_01: rather than for the billionaires that are behind the actual technology,
- 4:51SPEAKER_01: which which is great,
- 4:53SPEAKER_01: but it does need to have some more human oversight.
- 4:57SPEAKER_01: So I'm really going into like who gets to design and the future.
- 5:03SPEAKER_01: and it shouldn't really be something that happens to us.
- 5:05SPEAKER_01: It is,
- 5:06SPEAKER_01: you know,
- 5:07it is how can we get involved in that and be more proactive in
- 5:11what is going to
- 5:12SPEAKER_01: happen to our future.
- 5:15SPEAKER_01: So I think there's two things going on here.
- 5:19SPEAKER_01: There is obviously will AI take my job,
- 5:23SPEAKER_01: but,
- 5:24SPEAKER_01: and the sort of risk of AI itself,
- 5:27SPEAKER_01: which is a whole other thing.
- 5:29SPEAKER_01: But I think the other thing is just,
- 5:34There's a lot of research coming out around how the attention
- 5:40and the way that
- 5:40we're kind of scattering our attention is making us less smart
- 5:46and even me saying
- 5:47less smart is probably not a thing it's probably less smart is
- 5:51probably actually
- 5:52not smart to say but it's all about our attention span and our
- 5:58memory and that sort
- 5:59SPEAKER_01: of sustained focus and critical thinking and
- 6:04It's not just for Gen Z where the majority of this research has
- 6:08been done because
- 6:08SPEAKER_01: they're now trying to put AI into some schools.
- 6:12SPEAKER_01: It's about adults too.
- 6:19SPEAKER_01: It's cognitive surrender basically.
- 6:23SPEAKER_01: If we are not using it, we're losing it.
- 6:25So how I try to think of AI and I even have this prompt in my
- 6:31AI is to question me
- 6:33SPEAKER_01: at all times,
- 6:34SPEAKER_01: you know,
- 6:34not to agree with everything that I'm saying and to be really
- 6:42mindful of how we're
- 6:43SPEAKER_01: using it.
- 6:46so yeah just kind of it's what we decide to do now and how we
- 6:51decide to use it and
- 6:52I've kind of got some I've got some suggestions on how we
- 6:58actually go about that so
- 7:00yeah it's all about how we start thinking for ourselves and
- 7:06also what we should be
- 7:08getting better at because I think we've sort of lost touch with
- 7:12some of the things
- 7:13SPEAKER_01: that make us uniquely human so
- 7:16what can't be automated connection creativity well you know
- 7:22some would argue
- 7:24definitely curiosity compassion meaning and joy and that's not
- 7:32the features of a
- 7:33productivity or an optimisation system that's the features of
- 7:36our life so I've
- 7:39talked a lot about what I see as being in this sort of new era
- 7:44or if we've got
- 7:46this sort of old institutions sort of breaking down as I would
- 7:51say there's a lack
- 7:53of trust in those institutions and the new era in my personal
- 8:03view is going to need
- 8:06to reward adaptability more self-awareness more intuition
- 8:14instead of trusting
- 8:17SPEAKER_01: authority,
- 8:18SPEAKER_01: more intentionality,
- 8:20SPEAKER_01: more emotional intelligence,
- 8:22SPEAKER_01: definitely more nervous system regulation,
- 8:26more creativity around how we live and work and more aligned
- 8:31decision making,
- 8:31SPEAKER_01: going back to like,
- 8:35what do we need to do for ourselves to keep ourselves on track
- 8:40in this crazy world?
- 8:43SPEAKER_01: And
- 8:44SPEAKER_01: Attention is really the superpower there.
- 8:47SPEAKER_01: And for me,
- 8:50SPEAKER_01: going back to the sort of what AI can do for us is productivity,
- 8:59SPEAKER_01: but it can't fix the clarity problem.
- 9:02SPEAKER_01: That is going to remain uniquely human to us.
- 9:05SPEAKER_01: We need to be able to decide.
- 9:07SPEAKER_01: And for me, it's all about this
- 9:11era of like self leadership and sort of taking ownership for
- 9:15our own where we want
- 9:18to go and where we want to take our lives and I created for my
- 9:25own self who was
- 9:26kind of having this like existential what am I doing with my
- 9:32life which many people
- 9:34SPEAKER_01: may go through this I created what I am
- 9:40saw as an operating system for being human and it's for me I
- 9:47created this system
- 9:50called Balance OS which is it was using AI but it was to help
- 9:56me live more
- 9:56SPEAKER_01: intentionally and it basically
- 10:04enables you to kind of reflect and review where you're at and
- 10:09then look at your
- 10:11days more intentionally and it focuses on what are you doing
- 10:21for your mind you know
- 10:23like your clarity emotional awareness and then your body you
- 10:26know I spoke in the
- 10:28SPEAKER_01: other sessions this week about how you're
- 10:32your body stores what your mind ignores so if you keep if you
- 10:37keep ignoring your
- 10:38emotions and pushing things down it will actually result in
- 10:42negative impact on your
- 10:45body and then you know building connection connection is one of
- 10:49the we're in one of
- 10:51the loneliest generations ever or loneliness eras ever so
- 10:56connection is really
- 10:57SPEAKER_01: important and then
- 10:59trying to find um more direction and meaning and it's not about
- 11:04going what is my
- 11:05passion how am I going to you know find my passion I don't know
- 11:09what my passion is
- 11:10it's just taking small meaningful actions that light you up um
- 11:15in your life because
- 11:16you know it's not about I need to have this big passion it's
- 11:19just being more
- 11:20SPEAKER_01: connected to yourself um
- 11:24Inside Balance you get things like the reset which maybe some
- 11:27of you have done
- 11:28there's the challenges on your mind body relationship and
- 11:31purpose to set you in the
- 11:34right direction you can set your vision and create goals around
- 11:37that you can track
- 11:39your progress and see your flow score understand your archetype
- 11:45and how you're
- 11:46wired and start to live on purpose instead of autopilot because
- 11:51I know that that is
- 11:53SPEAKER_01: um
- 11:54we get stuck into the repeat patterns which we'll be going
- 11:58through in a bit more
- 11:59detail tomorrow but this is a kind of way to kind of step back
- 12:02and look at it
- 12:03through a different lens and the way that I've kind of seen it
- 12:09and not really to
- 12:10compare with ChatGBD but it was it has the integrated chat so
- 12:15you can actually use
- 12:18SPEAKER_01: balance to get advice based on where you're at
- 12:23and it is a purpose-built system for clarity and habits and
- 12:27human well-being rather
- 12:29just than just going to chat GPT and asking again a new
- 12:33question it's just a
- 12:36different lens to look through it all and yeah so what I'm
- 12:43doing at the moment and
- 12:44I'm really really still trying to get clarity and momentum and
- 12:48focus on all of this
- 12:50SPEAKER_01: is that I've
- 12:51coach people on AI and how to build what I'm building and I'll
- 12:56show you some of it
- 12:57in a minute and balance and I do that either one-to-one or with
- 13:02teams and for me
- 13:07SPEAKER_01: when I'm doing the individual coaching I use AI as a tool,
- 13:14balance as that framework and then essentially it's all about
- 13:19you as the individual
- 13:20SPEAKER_01: so
- 13:21SPEAKER_01: I look at the human layer as the most important part of that,
- 13:25SPEAKER_01: you know,
- 13:25SPEAKER_01: like with the life layer,
- 13:28SPEAKER_01: like where are you in your life,
- 13:32SPEAKER_01: which is all about your values,
- 13:35SPEAKER_01: your,
- 13:35SPEAKER_01: you know,
- 13:38SPEAKER_01: what do you want in life and then how to use technology on top of that.
- 13:42SPEAKER_01: So technology is the last part of that.
- 13:47SPEAKER_01: And these are some of the things that I've been building
- 13:50SPEAKER_01: Using AI,
- 13:51I built the whole balance operating system on Lovable and my
- 14:00one-to-one coaching
- 14:02SPEAKER_01: services on that.
- 14:05I'm using Substack as my publishing hub and Substack is a great
- 14:12tool because it kind
- 14:13SPEAKER_01: of then can distribute out to all the social media channels.
- 14:16SPEAKER_01: You can use one piece of content
- 14:19so the recording from this session today I will turn into a
- 14:28podcast and then I'll
- 14:30upload the transcript I'll turn it into a podcast on Substack
- 14:37and publish it from
- 14:38SPEAKER_01: there and then I can turn it into
- 14:41Clips for YouTube I can upload the transcript of the podcast
- 14:49into Claude and create
- 14:53articles using it and clips that I can then put on my blog or
- 14:59on mySubstack or
- 15:03basically I can just do so many things with it and it creates
- 15:05all the artwork and
- 15:06SPEAKER_01: it does a lot of things so I really use that as my publishing hub
- 15:10SPEAKER_01: And then I've got my personal website,
- 15:12SPEAKER_01: again,
- 15:13SPEAKER_01: built on Lovable,
- 15:15SPEAKER_01: which you just basically ask it to do things,
- 15:18SPEAKER_01: show it an example,
- 15:20SPEAKER_01: and it creates all of this for you.
- 15:21SPEAKER_01: And also my blog,
- 15:24which I have uploaded all of the content from my blog into a
- 15:29project in Claude that
- 15:35SPEAKER_01: then
- 15:36SPEAKER_01: has a sort of understanding of my writing style and then I upload all my
- 15:40transcripts all my presentations into that project so it has
- 15:47how I speak what I you
- 15:48know what I talk about what I present about I'll upload the
- 15:52presentation for today
- 15:53into that project and I'll be uploading the transcript into
- 15:58that project and then
- 16:00SPEAKER_01: I'll be kind of continually updating that and it's got hundreds of
- 16:04documents in it at the minute and it's still only at 17% of the
- 16:09memory and also
- 16:10like I mentioned I say into my instructions in Claude are that
- 16:17it is not to agree
- 16:19with me it has to be it constantly has to question me and it
- 16:23does and I used to use
- 16:28SPEAKER_01: ChatGPT and I still do and
- 16:30for certain things but I'm using Claude more and more it does
- 16:34take longer to do
- 16:35things but it's actually comes I feel like it's actually better
- 16:40and I've also got
- 16:41all my Laurel bots which if anybody wants to try any of them I
- 16:45still need to tweak
- 16:46them but these are in chat GPT and they're super easy to make
- 16:49but it's the only way
- 16:50you can really publish a project you know like Claude have
- 16:56projects but you can't
- 16:56SPEAKER_01: publish them and for other people to use as well
- 17:01and I used to have a whole team that did this so when I was at
- 17:07Sustainably we had
- 17:08SPEAKER_01: like designer,
- 17:09SPEAKER_01: engineer,
- 17:10SPEAKER_01: product owner,
- 17:11SPEAKER_01: customer success,
- 17:12sales and marketing and now I do it all myself and you can do
- 17:19it all too I also use
- 17:21Canva to even create my presentations in Claude and then I
- 17:29upload them in Canva you
- 17:30SPEAKER_01: can give
- 17:31Claude your like brand guidelines and outline of your
- 17:34presentation and then
- 17:35obviously it knows all the things and then it kind of can
- 17:39create the presentation
- 17:40and then it can tweak it in Canva so yeah it kind of is so much
- 17:48simpler to do all
- 17:50SPEAKER_01: of this and yeah like there are options so I've been
- 17:58and building on Lovable for the past year and I've integrated
- 18:05emails so there's a
- 18:09SPEAKER_01: whole sort of sequence of things that can happen off of the back of that
- 18:12interactions I've integrated bookings I've integrated payments
- 18:17I've done the app
- 18:18you know and it's and it's actually getting easier and easier
- 18:23to do it because when
- 18:25SPEAKER_01: I first started using Lovable it had
- 18:28SPEAKER_01: It was definitely not as capable.
- 18:29SPEAKER_01: It did use OpenAI,
- 18:31SPEAKER_01: now it's using Claude and,
- 18:33SPEAKER_01: you know,
- 18:33SPEAKER_01: various changes have happened over the course of time.
- 18:37SPEAKER_01: It kind of can help you with SEO,
- 18:38SPEAKER_01: like,
- 18:39SPEAKER_01: or whether that really matters or AI optimization these days.
- 18:43SPEAKER_01: But,
- 18:45SPEAKER_01: yeah,
- 18:45you can connect all your projects together so they can share
- 18:49components and across
- 18:52SPEAKER_01: all my different websites,
- 18:54SPEAKER_01: that helps as well.
- 18:56SPEAKER_01: So, yeah.
- 18:58SPEAKER_01: Yeah,
- 18:59and I just wanted to hand it over to everybody now that is
- 19:08watching the replays or
- 19:10in the session to have a think about what parts of your life
- 19:15might feel really
- 19:17unnecessarily complicated and what technology could help
- 19:21simplify and also thinking
- 19:24SPEAKER_01: about your own life,
- 19:26SPEAKER_01: what are the skills and qualities
- 19:28that you think will matter most in the future and you can
- 19:34either kind of have a
- 19:35think about that well obviously pause it if you're in the
- 19:39replay but yeah that's
- 19:42something to have a think about because the way that I've built
- 19:46all of this is
- 19:48SPEAKER_01: actually really really easy to do I have no tech skills whatsoever
- 19:55and you know I have a marketing background and I love doing the
- 20:04sort of design and
- 20:05the sort of architecting all the pieces together but yeah it's
- 20:11really easy really
- 20:13SPEAKER_01: really easy to do it just takes a bit of time and I
- 20:17Gives you options you know obviously um if things are like you
- 20:22know uncertain in
- 20:23the workplace there's other things that you can try to kind of
- 20:27um create something
- 20:28of your own which is what I'm I've been trying to do and um
- 20:36yeah I kind of going
- 20:37SPEAKER_01: back to um who gets to design the future and for me um
- 20:45I am building technology for human flourishing and what is
- 20:52human flourishing so for
- 20:57me it is about the it's more than happiness it is about a
- 21:08combination of five
- 21:10SPEAKER_01: elements so
- 21:11SPEAKER_01: the positive positive emotions and engagement relationships meaning and
- 21:17accomplishment and um so I think for me I really feel
- 21:26passionately that we should
- 21:28SPEAKER_01: be building technology that helps that supports ourselves um
- 21:37SPEAKER_01: and the Center for Humane Technology had this roadmap about,
- 21:44SPEAKER_01: it was actually focused on AI,
- 21:47which I think is really relevant to what we all should be
- 21:54really focused on as
- 21:56SPEAKER_01: well.
- 21:56SPEAKER_01: So AI should be built safely and transparently.
- 22:02SPEAKER_01: If AI companies are building products,
- 22:06SPEAKER_01: those require testing before they reach billions of people.
- 22:10And they believe that the burden of proof belongs to the
- 22:14builder,
- 22:15not the public.
- 22:16SPEAKER_01: So that's their kind of first thing.
- 22:19SPEAKER_01: That AI companies owe a duty of care to the public.
- 22:24Their center of humane technology compares this to pharma
- 22:29companies who can't skip
- 22:31SPEAKER_01: their safety trials.
- 22:33SPEAKER_01: and car manufacturers can ignore recalls.
- 22:36And so AI companies must also be held to the same standards of
- 22:40accountability and
- 22:41SPEAKER_01: liability,
- 22:43SPEAKER_01: which they are currently not.
- 22:46SPEAKER_01: And AI design should center on human well-being.
- 22:50SPEAKER_01: So when AI is designed to seem human,
- 22:54SPEAKER_01: and we know this has caused a lot of problems,
- 22:56it is building trust and capturing attention or manufacturing a
- 23:01connection
- 23:03SPEAKER_01: That is actually manipulation, not innovation.
- 23:07SPEAKER_01: And AI must not be designed to mimic humanity.
- 23:12SPEAKER_01: And AI should not automate away meaningful work and human dignity.
- 23:17SPEAKER_01: So looking to kind of what this new, the way that China's building up.
- 23:26And it should make humanity more capable,
- 23:29not make human skill and labor worthless.
- 23:34and the productivity gains,
- 23:36AI creates,
- 23:37belongs to all of us,
- 23:39not the companies building it.
- 23:42And AI innovation should not come at the expense of our rights
- 23:49and freedom.
- 23:52So your data,
- 23:53your attention and your behavior are not raw materials to be
- 23:56extracted and sold.
- 23:58SPEAKER_01: AI must be designed to serve people using it, not harvest them.
- 24:02SPEAKER_01: And we
- 24:03SPEAKER_01: All of us at the moment are putting all of our information,
- 24:05like all of our IP into these machines and actually notice that
- 24:13Bernie Sanders has
- 24:15this campaign that in the US that the population should own
- 24:24shares in the AI
- 24:25SPEAKER_01: companies and because of that reason and then
- 24:32SPEAKER_01: internationally agreed upon limits.
- 24:36SPEAKER_01: So without agreed limits across nation,
- 24:39SPEAKER_01: AI can be weaponized and we've seen that to surveil,
- 24:42manipulate and destabilize at scale and governments must
- 24:47coordinate now before the
- 24:49SPEAKER_01: lines are crossed and AI power should be balanced in society.
- 24:54SPEAKER_01: So the people most affected by AI have almost no voice at this point.
- 25:03in how it's built or governed and the future AI must be decided
- 25:10by all of us,
- 25:10SPEAKER_01: not a handful of companies and governments.
- 25:13SPEAKER_01: So that is kind of the stance on the Centre for Humane Technology,
- 25:17SPEAKER_01: which I'll send out the link to after this.
- 25:22SPEAKER_01: And you can also join some movements on it to kind of
- 25:30SPEAKER_01: petition the government to pause these dangerous frontier models.
- 25:37SPEAKER_01: I mean,
- 25:38SPEAKER_01: I think,
- 25:38SPEAKER_01: you know,
- 25:39where we're at with the capabilities of the AI models and using
- 25:42them for specific
- 25:44SPEAKER_01: purposes is brilliant.
- 25:45SPEAKER_01: But when the models themselves are starting to do their own thing,
- 25:52SPEAKER_01: which is actually happening,
- 25:54SPEAKER_01: we really need to be aware of
- 25:58SPEAKER_01: what the frontier and super intelligence capabilities could be.
- 26:03SPEAKER_01: And even Anthropic is now saying that we should have a pause
- 26:11SPEAKER_01: But whether they actually mean that is another thing.
- 26:14SPEAKER_01: But yeah, I'll share all the information after that.
- 26:16SPEAKER_01: And then there was also a new Netflix documentary called The AI Doc.
- 26:22SPEAKER_01: And that has been released in the States.
- 26:23SPEAKER_01: I don't know if it's over in UK or Europe or whatever yet,
- 26:27SPEAKER_01: but that's definitely worth watching as well.
- 26:31I have definitely written to my MP and I've joined Paws AI and
- 26:36Control AI and
- 26:37signed up to the Center of Humane Technology as well so there's
- 26:40a lot of things
- 26:40that you can do to kind of try to make the build and it's all
- 26:44about kind of getting
- 26:46other people's voices heard and also as data centers are being
- 26:50thrown up and being
- 26:52aware that it does have an impact on the local communities you
- 26:56know there's
- 26:58Increased energy costs,
- 27:00water usage because they're being built without other cooling
- 27:04systems.
- 27:05So they're using billions of litres of water and being powered
- 27:13by horrible things
- 27:14SPEAKER_01: like methane gas and all sorts of other things that are going on.
- 27:19Yeah so that is a snapshot of what we are going to be what
- 27:25we've covered today and
- 27:28like I said balance and what I'm trying to build is not about
- 27:33having all the
- 27:33answers I definitely do not have all the answers if I did I
- 27:37would be rich and yeah
- 27:41SPEAKER_01: taking the steps on a daily basis and getting into a rhythm of
- 27:49reflection and pausing and doing things that support you with
- 27:56tech and not just
- 27:59SPEAKER_01: feeding these AI billionaires.
- 28:02So I might just pause the recording if I can do that just now
- 28:11or stop the recording.
- 28:16SPEAKER_00: Let me see, I always struggle with stop recording but not stop sharing.