It’s been another 100hr week, binging on coffee and caffeine pills.
Feel rough, exhausted. I need to sleep...
Macbook pings - work - email header reads ‘URGENT’ — ‘Expletive!’ ‘Gav, Need a tech automation piece focused on the impact of AI on white collar jobs by morning. Cheers, Dick’. ‘He got that bit right!’
I rest my head in my palms, forefingers pinching my sinuses, eyes closing...
A feint knocking.
My body refuses to move yet somehow I open the door, eyes mid slow blink.
I force them open to the glare of an overhead surgical light.
Someone leans into my field of view - ‘what’s happening, why am I here?’ ‘You have been chosen’, deep voice - subtly synthesised.
‘What?’ ‘I don’t understand.’ ‘We’re harvesting your Emotional Intelligence for integration into our next gen AI app.
Foggy brain, slowly processing - Will I essentially become AI version 1?’
‘No oooooo!’ The screaming in my head silenced by that of a bone-saw, it’s high frequency resonating through my body...
My eyes snap open — Macbook asleep — phone, on silent, buzzing on the desk. Long exhalation, a wry smile...
I have my premise! ‘AI without EI (Emotional Intelligence) will always be just that — ARTIFICIAL!’
