The part about “everyone becoming a nobody” hit hard. If AI gives everyone equal access to excellence, then skill becomes less of an identity and more of a commodity. What fills that space afterwards is the real mystery.
The part about “everyone becoming a nobody” hit hard. If AI gives everyone equal access to excellence, then skill becomes less of an identity and more of a commodity. What fills that space afterwards is the real mystery.
We are already seeing it. Identity is less on skill these days than on a self-provided label. People make themselves feel special by naming themselves something special. They don't need skills, they don't need to do anything special - they just give themselves a new pronoun, or a gender label, or whatever.