For the past couple of years, I’ve been trading with AI agents daily. What keeps me up at night isn’t how smart they are, but whose brain they’re wired into.
Descartes said, 'I think, therefore I am.' This line has stood the test of four centuries, and suddenly there's a bug in the system.
You fire up ChatGPT, drop a question, and it takes a moment to process before hitting you back with an answer. So, who’s really doing the thinking here?
You might say it's obviously you doing the thinking, since AI is just a tool. But take a closer look at your moves: you opened its interface, followed its rules, and asked in a way it gets. It stores the results on its servers and presents them to you in its format. If you want to pick up that train of thought later, you’ve got to go back to it. Want to switch tools? Sorry, you can’t take it with you.