VER-XIV-0004
“My company wants me to use AI but I don't trust it.”
Distrust without understanding is just fear. Trust without understanding is just compliance. Neither serves you. The answer is not to blindly adopt or blindly resist — it's to learn enough to make an informed judgment. You don't have to trust AI. You have to understand what it actually does, where it fails, and where it adds value. Then decide for yourself.
Your Practice
Spend 30 minutes today learning what AI actually does in your specific role — not from a headline, from a hands-on tutorial. Try it on a low-stakes task. Evaluate the output critically. Your distrust is healthy only if it's informed. Uninformed distrust is just another cage.
The Architects
“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one.”
— Voltaire, Voltaire, letter to Frederick William, Prince of Prussia, 28 November 1770 (trans. S.G. Tallentyre, 1919)