The AI Boom Made Average People More Interesting

Anybody else noticing this? As an average person, I’m not complaining.

I still worry about the long-term cost of genuine human creativity being drowned out by synthetic noise. But there’s been one surprising upside. Over the past year, I’ve been able to start actual, ongoing conversations, often just by sending an email or making a phone call, with people I could never reliably reach before:

State representatives

VPs of engineering organizations

Authors and bloggers

Journalists

European lawmakers

Random experts who share similar interests

I spent the better part of the last decade trying to start conversations like these. My success rate felt like an anecdotal 2%. This year, it’s high enough that I almost expect a reply.