First time in Greece, discussing a future with AI at Panathēnea!

First time in Greece, discussing a future with AI at Panathēnea! Besides the tasty food and incredibly kind people, I left with a notebook full of insights...

Here are ten takeaways on decision making in AI, Finance, Education

Intuition: Trust your gut, because it's likely that you've thought about your [idea] more than somebody who's giving you advice, so don't miss opportunities just because others said no. Intuition is not a mystical word, it's science-backed decision-making.

Dopamine: As your [idea] matures, you may get comfortable. Be careful of the fact that more comfort often means less adrenaline and hunger.

Read between the lines: Many finance companies want to sell you the best way to spend quickly (new card, new subscription, etc.). Yet wealth grows slowly over time, and that doesn't sell well in commercials.

Democratic decision making: Create formal internal processes for crazy ideas to emerge and assume that no one knows better than another.

Different cultures at work: Motivation/drive should be shared across the board. Everything else can differ and therefore offers diversity.

Tech dividend: Due to AI, somebody in a village can now learn as much as somebody in the private school of a city. What can we do with that ability?

Educational frameworks: Most educators around the world do not have a proper framework for collaboration with AI. When it's missing, they often go back to old habits.

Productive struggle: Nearly everybody talked about the fact that friction in the learning process is what drives us to be great. Yet AI can eliminate it.

Incremental innovation: Tweaks in the classroom will not be enough as many start to question the ROI. We must collectively revamp current models.

So What: Incentive structures are going to determine our uses of new technologies. If our work requires us to be more productive, efficient, etc. then we (as well as students) will use every method to get there. More emphasis must be put on the creative process that gets you to a result rather than just evaluating the result itself. At the end of the day, we all grow as we build our way to a goal, not just at the moment we've reached it. The option to cut the creative process short is going to birth a huge divide between those who genuinely engage with the real world and those who have automated it to the highest degree.

Grateful to everyone in Athens who pushed these conversations forward. The best ideas came from people willing to disagree in the room....

Huge thanks to Stella Bompotsiari Tania (Tetiana) Revun Chara Gravani Sofia Zacharaki Despoina Trivela The Greek Online School Ada Leivada Anastasia Misirli, PhD for arranging such a necessary event.