Note: This is the audio version of IoNTELLIGENCE Issue 20

IoNTELLIGENCE is the Playbook for Professional Success, Personal Transformation, and the Pursuit of Happiness.

* 🚨 The Big Idea: AI will affect every job, company, and industry in the coming year. Here’s how to prepare.

* 🔧 What To Do Next: Beware these two risks and adopt a personal AI strategy.

* 🏆 Key Takeaways: 5 quick wins to set yourself up for AI success in 2024.

* 🔬 Go Deeper & Get Smart Fast: Read “The Age of AI” and listen to this November conversation between Derek Thompson and Kein Roose.

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Key Takeaways

* Beware of the AI de-skilling doom loop. Don’t let it do to your thinking skills what the keyboard did to your handwriting.

* AI levels the playing field and shrinks the gap between “star” and “average.”

* Use AI as a team of super-smart interns and a tireless thought partner.

* Commit to an AI “practice” of 30 minutes daily until it becomes an organic part of your toolkit.

* When machines become more like people, people need to become less like machines. Put your humanity on display.

🔬 Go Deeper & Get Smart Fast

* If you have a few hours, 📖 “The Age of AI and Our Human Future” by Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, and Daniel Huttenlocher - or this Wall Street Journal excerpt.

* If you have under 1 hour, 🎧 Listen to this podcast episode from November 14 between Derek Thompson and Kevin Roose on “How ChatGPT Can Change the Future of Jobs - Starting With Your Own.”

* If you have 10 minutes, 👓 this post from Section School on the best Chatbots of 2023 and this article by David Brooks on how to “major in being human in the age of AI.”

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