Most AI related opinions fall into one of the extremes: either AI enthusiast 🤖🥰 or radical anti-AI 🤖😡. There is truth on both sides, and one can also argue against both:

vs the enthusiast riding the AI hype 🤖🥰:

• 🫤 This is a cool technology that can summarize, create lookalikes or combine existing patterns well, but it is not going to create anything radically new. At best it can create solid, consistent work, but its art is always going to be mediocre as works by combining the past. Don't expect it to find breakthroughs, it does not think 🧠; it is a glorified autocomplete.
• 😶 It is no replacement where you need human touch or empathy. It can behave as if it had feelings, but people will know it does not and will miss the human.
• 👉 While not human, it may forever be vulnerable to e.g. social engineering attacks, as it was built to emulate human behavior.
• 👀 Why put AI everywhere? You may not always want a human looking over your shoulder. The more you consider AI a person, the more you may want privacy from it. Sometimes you don't want a copilot but just want to fly alone.
• 🥸 Consider it an extremely efficient, hard-working employee, whom you did not hire, you cannot motivate, cannot discipline or cannot hold responsible if something goes wrong. While it does what you ask, it may also be secretly pushing some huge megacorporation's agenda.
• ☢️ You can use AI for supplementary tasks, but companies who give up understanding their core business are doomed.

vs the anti-AI Luddite 🤖😡:

• 🎉 You may be skeptical but this technology works! We can accomplish cool things with it we could not even dream of a few years back.
• 🛠️ Yes, there are funny glitches, stupid mistakes and vulnerabilities, but they will be fixed. For those that cannot be fixed (e.g. non-determinism), there will be workarounds.
• 🧠 It may seem to break some of today's processes (e.g. essays at school or peer reviews of scientific papers), but perhaps those processes are wrong. Is it really art if AI can really produce the same quality? Come on, be more creative!
• 🪥 Don't worry about Skynet taking over the world -- because worrying does not help. Even if you turn your back on AI, the toothpaste is already out of the tube, and you cannot make humanity unlearn this technology.
• 🏃 Companies/countries that outright refuse to use AI (or any fancy tech) will fail. Those that consider using it will have more options and will be in a strictly better position and will eventually outcompete the rest. Regulation alone does not solve this; if major countries do not regulate, they will have the advantage.

I use AI, as it is useful and rejecting it does not bring you anywhere. I try to learn how to use it right. Companies riding the AI hype are creating AI systems both good and bad -- as a security guy I will need to secure them. I tend to be open & creative when experimenting, but conservative when it is a live system.

Be open & learn but keep your gunpowder dry!

This post was first published on Linkedin here on 2025-10-23.