Human ↔ AI — QR-0008

THE BOLDER WAY™

QUESTION ANYTHING

QUESTION RESOURCE 0008

HUMAN ↔ AI

THE QUESTION

How am I relating to AI?

AI is not another Human. But a Human can still experience an exchange with AI through asking, receiving, interpreting, returning, relying, agreeing, disagreeing, creating, and deciding.

A QUESTION TO HOLD

What changes when something that is not another Human can respond to me as though we are in an exchange?

BEGIN WHERE SOMETHING GETS YOUR ATTENTION.

You do not have to answer every Question.

THE BOLDER WAY™

QUESTION ANYTHING

QUESTION RESOURCE 0008

What do I expect AI to provide?

  • Answers or accuracy?
  • Ideas or creativity?
  • Expertise or perspective?
  • Understanding or validation?
  • Availability?
  • Decision support?
  • Something I previously expected from another Human - or from myself?

What do I believe AI can know about me?

  • What have I actually told it?
  • What has it inferred?
  • What am I assuming it remembers?
  • What does personalization make me experience as knowing?
  • What is the difference between having information about me and knowing me?

TENSION

What am I asking AI to do for me?

WHAT ARE YOU NOTICING?

THE BOLDER WAY™

QUESTION ANYTHING

QUESTION RESOURCE 0008

What authority do I give AI's response?

  • When do I verify?
  • When do I defer?
  • When do I accept?
  • When do I challenge?
  • When does usefulness become trust?
  • When do I treat fluency as evidence?

When does a trusted answer begin functioning as authority?

What do I use AI's response to tell me about myself?

  • agreement
  • disagreement
  • praise
  • challenge
  • validation
  • reassurance
  • reflection
  • interpretation
  • certainty
  • permission
  • understanding
  • confirmation

When does an AI response become evidence in my understanding of myself?

Can I distinguish agreement, reassurance, and understanding from evidence?

QUESTION / RESPONSE / WHAT I'M NOTICING

THE BOLDER WAY™

QUESTION ANYTHING

QUESTION RESOURCE 0008

How am I participating in the relationship I experience with AI?

  • What do I repeatedly ask AI to do?
  • What context do I provide?
  • What do I verify?
  • What do I keep returning for?
  • What have I stopped doing myself?
  • What have I started doing because AI makes it possible?

What have I stopped asking myself - or another Human - because I now ask AI?

SELF

What is happening in me through this interaction?

SYSTEMS

What System is operating here - and where is Human judgment still present?

SOCIETY

What changes when Humans begin relating to AI at scale?

  • What authority am I giving this?
  • What am I using this response to tell me?
  • Am I asking for an answer - or continuing to Question?

What does this reveal about Being Human?

Answers can come from anywhere. Questioning remains yours.