Can AI Solve FOMO?
Many knowledge workers feel the need to pay attention to everything single thing happening in their industry, company, and organization. There’s a real fear that if they miss something, it will hurt their performance. Can AI with its ability to sort and summarize large bodies of unstructured data come to our rescue? As I discuss in my latest episode of Talk To Me Petey D, it can’t fix everything but if can empower us if used thoughtfully.
AI can summarize and present more information than we will ever be able to process with our limited human cognitive capabilities. There is an infinite buffer of information in the world that we will never get to the bottom of. As technology reduces friction, volume naturally goes up as effort drops. The more AI enables easy creation and consumption of data, the more data there will be.
Humans, not unlike CPU, suffer when we try to switch between different cognitive contexts. Productivity techniques that involve sorting information into contextually similar buckets have been shown to improve our ability to quickly consume that information. AI is very good at categorizing sorting and could easily do this on our behalf. Tech can enable us to do more, but we will always have to prioritize even when we fear missing out.
