This story is about a beach, but it's actually about us. The wave of artificial intelligence is coming. Some will ignore it. Some will be overwhelmed. Some will manage to save themselves. Some will ride it. And others, perhaps the most decisive, will have the courage to learn... before it's too late.
Before the summer I will organize a couple of workshops with some friends to talk about it, to educate ourselves, to understand and prepare!
#Scene1– On a bright day, under a perfectly clear sky, the beach appears like a portrait of normality. Children play with buckets on the shoreline, families talk, laugh, rest. Everything seems stable, predictable, harmless. Yet, on the horizon, a huge wave is growing. It's not just any storm: it's the revolution of artificial intelligence. It advances silently while almost no one notices. In the free part of the beach there are ordinary people, immersed in daily life. They continue to do what they have always done, convinced that tomorrow's world will still resemble yesterday's. They don't see the change coming, or they consider it too far away to really concern them. But the wave will not make distinctions: it will come for everyone.
#Scene2 – A little further on, in the front row, sit the richest families, the entrepreneurial bourgeoisie, protected by their large tidy umbrellas, engrossed in conversations about money, influence, prestige, investments, positions to defend. They occupy the best places on the beach and believe that this is enough to keep them safe. But the wave that arrives will not respect positional rents. It will also overwhelm those who think that the power and well-being of today automatically guarantees the control of tomorrow.
#Scene3 – Further out to sea, however, someone looked up in time. They are the most daring: visionary entrepreneurs, researchers, innovative artists, men and women who read mutations. They can't stop the wave, but they understand that it is coming. And so they chose to move before the others. With small boats, imperfect but ready, they move away from the shore and look for a route. They do not yet dominate change, but they have understood that ignoring it would be fatal and that, by moving in time, they could acquire a competitive advantage.
#Scene4 – Then there are those who go a step further. They don't just try to save themselves: they try to ride the wave. They are the pioneers of the new era, those who first understood that artificial intelligence is not only a threat or a danger, but also a force to be understood, governed and used. They are the ones who, like the great technological protagonists of our time, transform risk into power, discontinuity into advantage, the wave into direction.
On the shore, meanwhile, a small group observes that scene with both fear and courage. He doesn't know how to surf yet, he has no experience, he doesn't have the time for perfect preparation. But he understands that staying still would mean being swamped. And then he picks up the board, stumbles, tries, starts again. It is perhaps the most important image of all: not that of someone who is already ready, but of someone who decides to learn quickly so as not to be carried away by the wave or risk drowning.