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Cultural Empowerment
In this chapter, we want to focus on the secret to successful AI and data literacy – empowering yourself and your people. This may well be the most challenging chapter in the book because it forces Citizens of Data Science to embrace a very uncomfortable and even troubling concept – ambiguity.
Ambiguity – the quality of being open to more than one interpretation – is the key to human, society, and organizational evolution. If everyone has the same perspectives and same opinions, if our thinking is just a clone of everyone else’s thinking, then human evolution and growth are over, and AI will win.
To quote popular American self-help author Peter McWilliams:
“Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. ...
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