The Campbell Academy Blog (73)

Thinking about the pace of change

Many of my conversations with people (when I'm outside the treatment room) are about how things are changing.

People are coming at us with AI alternatives for note taking and x-ray reporting and lots of stuff in the background in terms of sales and customer relation management, and communication, and finance, and all of these different things.

The technology that's being offered to us in terms of treatment is extraordinary and sometimes seems like the stuff of fantasies and dreams, and all of this pace is happening super quickly.

For example, my daughter Grace is about to finish her biochemistry degree at Birmingham, where she could have written her final project in GPT. She could have asked it to write it as a first-year or a second-year, or a third-year, and it would have taken less than 60 seconds to write it, and all she would have had to do was reference it.

The university says it can tell, but we all know it can't.

How we adapt to this and how we deal with it is the biggest question moving forwards, but as I said in the title, it's about thinking.

And so, the change is coming, and it will wash over us, so how we adapt to it and harness it comes back to how we think about it.

How we think about it is framed by our principles and our aspirations, and our biases.

If all we ever do is look at everyone else and suffer fear of missing out (FOMO), we will continue to jump at every single opportunity to adapt and to innovate change in our lives and our work at the expense of our humanity.

Comparison is the thief of joy, so deciding how to get the technology to work for us to make us more human is the biggest thing that we will be thinking about when all these opportunities continue to come (and continue to come more and more).