A content designer's guide to not wasting your wishes on something stupid

I was a lucky child. My parents and grandparents spent hours reading and reciting fairytales to me. Most of them weren’t age-appropriate, of course, involving children being eaten and loved ones dying on every other page. But there was always enough moral to the story to distract from the horrors and drive home a message. Trying to understand what it all meant kept me up at night ruminating.

I recently had an epiphany: these stories were excellent preparation for what I’m currently facing in my career: Dealing with artificial intelligence. Understanding it. Giving it instructions, it simply cannot misinterpret. Getting something valuable from it in return.…