I think the future of AI is that eventually we will stop thinking about it as AI.

It will become more like electricity.

When I flip on a light switch, I do not think about the power plant, the electrical grid, the transformers, or everything happening behind the wall. I just expect the light to come on.

I think AI is heading in the same direction.

Right now, we still talk about AI as a separate thing. We open an AI app. We ask an AI a question. We debate whether something was “made by AI.” But I think that distinction is going to fade. AI will simply become part of the infrastructure underneath the things we already use.

What excites me most, though, is not the technology itself.

It is what it could allow individual people to do.

Historically, having a good idea was only the beginning. Actually executing that idea might require programmers, designers, researchers, lawyers, marketers, analysts, managers, money, and a lot of time.

AI could dramatically reduce that gap between having an idea and being able to act on it.

One person may eventually be able to accomplish things that previously required an entire team.

That does not mean I think humans become irrelevant.

Actually, I think the opposite happens.

As AI gets better at execution, the valuable human skill shifts from knowing how to do everything toward knowing what should be done in the first place.

The machine may be able to write the code, analyze the numbers, generate the options, or optimize the route.

But somebody still has to decide where we are going.

That means judgment matters.

Taste matters.

Curiosity matters.

Values matter.

Knowing the right question to ask may become more important than memorizing the answer.

I also do not think we should pretend there are no risks. AI could disrupt jobs, make misinformation easier to create, threaten privacy, concentrate enormous amounts of power, and encourage people to outsource too much of their own thinking.

And perhaps the biggest challenge is making sure extremely capable systems remain aligned with what human beings actually value.

Because being able to do something is not the same thing as deciding that we should do it.

That distinction may become one of the most important questions of the AI era.

So I am optimistic about where AI is going, but not blindly optimistic.

I think the best future is one where AI handles more of the friction—the repetitive work, the research, the organization, the execution—while humans remain responsible for direction, meaning, ethics, creativity, and choice.

The machines may become incredibly good at deciding.

But I still want humans choosing where we go.

And if AI eventually gives one person the capabilities that once required an entire team, I think the most interesting question will no longer be:

“What can AI do?”

It will be:

“What do you want to do with it?”

What do you think is the future of AI?

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