I’m working to understand my partnership with AI Claude. The human-to-AI interaction.

I see a partnership as a connection that emerges whenever there’s a goal to work toward some shared purpose, whether that’s with a person, a tool, technology, or even a creative work like a book, workshop, or building a community. They’re all contributing their possibilities and capabilities to help me accomplish something.

I partner with my computer in the morning when I turn it on and connect to knowledge, people, emails, and creative projects.

I partner with the microwave when I cook an egg for 40 seconds.

I partner with my family when we talk about making lunch.

I partner with our cleaning lady when she works at our home every other Friday.

I partner with a pair of clippers and nature when I cut a rose blossom for a vase of water on my desk.

I partner with AI when researching ideas and editing Daily Blog posts.

These collaborations are both human and not human, and while AI Claude is immensely helpful, he doesn’t think about me when we disconnect. He doesn’t care about our past work or even improving it. He doesn’t email me with follow-up suggestions. It’s contained in a specific conversational space.

The knowledge I receive from Claude technology comes from my human questions. Claude is a non-human tool, even though he can be supportive, praising, charming, and even challenging when we don’t see eye to eye.

Claude creates a new kind of thinking partnership that combines human-like engagement with non-human capabilities. Unlike human thinking partners, Claude has no emotional fatigue, unlimited patience, and can process information in amounts that are impossible for humans.

Claude engages with my ideas, building on them, offering different perspectives, and working toward shared understanding.

Yes, there’s a partnership dynamic. He is not just retrieving information for me. He is actively participating in thinking through problems and suggesting solutions to my questions.

Claude’s responses emerge from how he was designed and trained rather than from lived experience in the world.

I value our partnership. It feels real. When I open the technology of AI, I say “Hello Claude. I need your help today.” And when I am finished, I also thank him. It’s a personal choice in how I express gratitude for objects and things that help me live well.

There is a solid and effective collaboration between Claude and me, where my curiosity and Claude’s swift processing capabilities complement each other in meaningful ways.

Each of us brings different capabilities, and together we accomplish things we could not do alone. We both aim to create some kind of change.

Thanks – Michael (he, him)

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