Every era of human tools has been about feedback. The hand axe taught our ancestors what stone could and couldn’t do. The printing press created feedback loops between ideas and audiences that had previously taken generations. The internet compressed that cycle to days, then hours, then minutes. Kevin Kelly argues that teaching robots will be like teaching our children; it will make us better at the subject ourselves. The act of instruction forces clarity in the instructor. Tools have always taught us back.
What changes with AI is the volume. Drafts, variations, suggestions, alternatives, faster than any human collaborator ever could. The question is what we do with it.
“Tools have always taught us back.”
I’ve been thinking about this through a framework developed by U.S. Air Force Colonel John Boyd: the OODA loop. Observe, Orient, Decide, Act. B…
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