How AI whisperers can become AI shamans
When our shared attention is motivated by a common intention to benefit something bigger than our we-space, in the resulting inspired conversation, the air is getting filled with excited thought particles that swirl, connect, and build on each other.
That’s exactly what we were fortunate to experience in a moment during the 2024 Summit meeting of River, thanks to Pamela Von Sabljar’s exquisite facilitation.
She also noted what we’re doing with AI is analogous to what we’re doing in this room: we’re putting something out there in the conversation that becomes a prompt and brings back something from others.
That image is rich in meaning for me. For example, it reminds me that the quality of AI output depends largely on the quality of human input. Similarly, the quality of our emergent collective wisdom depends on the mindfulness and heartfulness of our individual utterances, plus the depth of our listening to each other and the field.
When mind, heart, and the action of speaking come into alignment, then that collective wisdom can guide our interaction with our AI “mates.” Then, our personal coherence can lead to a new level of intimacy and mastery of AI whispering.
The prompt born in such space will evoke wiser output from the AI, furthering the genesis of our collective wisdom. We’re walking on the path from wisdom-guided AI to wisdom-fostering AI. Walking on that path, AI whisperers are becoming AI shamans.
