Artificial Intelligence is a tool that amplifies whichever side of the fork you are standing on. I want to be honest up front: REgenerating America was written in 2013, before the current AI wave, and it does not discuss AI. What it does give us is a way to think about it.
Technology in the book
The book describes a technology economy and an information economy, nearly paperless virtual operations, collaborative innovation networks enabled by the Web, automated energy management systems in buildings, and online tools such as a sales talent assessment. It also pairs Gen X and Gen Y in reciprocating mentorship, with the younger generation bringing technical fluency. Technology was always a means, never the purpose.
The fork applies to AI
From 3D consciousness, built on limitation, AI is a way to take and get faster: more extraction, more control, fewer people. From 5D consciousness, infinite and built on eXpansion, AI is a way to give and receive more: freeing people from drudgery so they can do what they do best, which is the strengths-based idea at the center of our culture work.
Keep the human at the center
A New Earth leader decides first from intuition and heart, then lets the mind, and now machine intelligence, help carry it out. AI can draft, sort, forecast and remind. It cannot supply purpose, the WHY. That stays with people. Trust, which fell sharply in the surveys we cited, is also not something to automate. Use AI openly, tell people how it is used, and keep promises.
Used this way, AI becomes one more way for a NEO to serve its self, team, customer and community. Next, we look at what that does to money.