Is AI Helping You to Do Work, or Just to Do Stuff?

For someone who’s neither all-in on AI nor a passionate anti-AI crusader, I think about it a lot. From 2018 through 2023, I worked for Viv Labs, a startup from the folks who built Apple’s Siri; they had been bought by Samsung in order to fix Bixby, their much-maligned assistant. (The punchline here is that, to a large degree, they did fix it, but nobody noticed.) And my novel Kismet has emergent…