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. It may get tough, but it’s a small price to pay for living a dream.”

This chapter may be uncomfortable for some readers as it delves into the innate human tendency...