🔥 World of Abundance: Why AI’s true revolution isn’t about safety or scarcity — it’s speed, scale, and solo billion-dollar businesses

🧰 Prompt of the Week: The 10 brutal questions to ask ChatGPT about your future (and how to prompt for radical self-awareness)

🎯 AI in the Wild: From AI threat detection to GitHub — real-world use cases showing how governments, investors, and companies are using AI today

AI creates a world of abundance and not one that we are accustomed to. I've been hearing for decades that the world is going to run out of fossil fuels and that we need to conserve more. AI does the opposite: it gives you all human knowledge at your fingertips and an easy way to access it.

How do you differentiate yourself or what you do from others if anyone can tap into the same knowledge? The answer is how you actually apply any knowledge. I can have an LLM pretend to be an entrepreneur and assist me with building a business. But I actually have to put in the work. I can't press a button and just expect an AI tutorial that magically helps me make millions of dollars a year.

While so many are stuck on AI safety or the (fake) problem of AI environmentalism, the true pioneers are changing the way they approach this world of abundance. They are extending their capabilities. Tasks that took hours now take minutes. Compounded over time, these individuals are saving entire work years.

Businesses can get created fast and can scale in a few weeks. Going from idea to implementation no longer takes months. I don't make many predictions, but I think that there will be one person billion dollar businesses in the next 5 years. One human at the helm with tens of thousands of AI agents.

Taco Bell AI Goes Haywire — A customer accidentally ordered 18,000 waters while others couldn’t get a single drink through. A hilarious (and very real) reminder that automation needs human oversight. Read more →

Gideon: America’s AI threat detector — Imagine an AI system that scans open-source data to detect national security risks in real time. AI meets surveillance state. Read more →

ChatGPT beats the stock market — An experiment on GitHub shows an LLM-selected portfolio outperformed major indexes over 6 months. Retail investors, meet your new robo-advisor. Read more →

There are some prompts that you type in and learn a lot about yourself, and this is one below. It’s what that I’ve used to get unstuck when it comes to career or even life planning over the long term. It is hard hitting but sometimes you need that dose of cold water to motivate yourself. I’d recommend using this on your LLM that you’ve used the most (ChatGPT, Claude, etc):

“Ask me 10 questions of what you see fit, to give me the clearest picture of where my life is heading. Ask the questions one by one to avoid any bias in my answers. After I answer the 10 questions, reveal where I will be in 5 years time, do not sugarcoat and be brutally honest in your assessment”

There is the rare time that a new article talks about AI in a nuanced and helpful way. In the Atlantic article A Better Way to Think About AI, the author emphasizes the need for collaboration with AI instead of only thinking of automation. It’s refreshing.

AI as a collaboration partner is the real superpower. Whether you’re generating ideas, planning or using it for your personal life, this is where you’ll get the true value. It’s important to remember that AI in many cases will try to agree with or support whatever you put into it, so you’ll want to adjust your prompts where you don’t have a flattery machine.

While the headlines are talking about all of the layoffs from AI, they should be focusing on the fact that you do more work and higher quality work by collaboration.

AI is a tool, nothing more and nothing less. It can help people do amazing things, and can also help people do terrible things. We're still at that point where critical thinking is needed as a part of many AI processes. If an LLM outputs something and you use it without applying critical thinking, is it really the LLMs fault? We as humans are the final decision makers and no tool can take the blame for our faults.

There are going to be even more sensationalist AI headlines moving forward. Someone who is already going to commit a crime may have used ChatGPT a few times. Doesn't matter to a journalist. They'll run the headline "ChatGPT responsible for carjacking." And I’m guessing they’ll use AI to make the headline even more catchy!

Instead of the visceral emotional reaction that most of us get (myself included), the real takeaway is the millions of times AI has made our lives better. But that wouldn’t necessarily be news. We live in the best time in human history, and AI is going to make the world even better.

-Ylan