‘Quiver, Don’t Quake’: When AI means ‘Allied Intelligence’ in creative collaborations
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There’s a particular species of AI book that has proliferated since November 2022. You know the type: breathless proclamations about disruption, thin on specifics, heavy on buzzwords. Nadim Sadek’s Quiver, Don’t Quake is emphatically not that book.
What distinguishes Sadek’s contribution is that he offers a genuinely useful framework for understanding how the partnership might actually work. I am someone who spends my days building precisely the kind of human-AI collaborative workflows Sadek describes, and can tell you he really has touched that pain point, and taken the abstract and made it actionable and specific.
How to approach technology
The book's central thesis rests on a well-established psychological model: Kahneman’s System 1 (fast, intuitive, feeling-based) and System 2 (slow, analytical, deliberate). Sadek argues that human creativity excels at System 1 work – the spark, the intuition, the lived experience that generates ideas worth pursuing – while AI provides formidable System 2 capabilities: pattern recognition, iteration, structural analysis.
This has profound practical implications for how creative professionals should approach the technology. Rather than fearing replacement or dismissing AI as a sophisticated parlour trick, Sadek suggests we think of it as an “Allied Intelligence” – a creative collaborator that helps us understand and articulate what we're actually trying to make.
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