This is a post just to gawp at the number of "archetypes" of AI users people have thought up e.g.:
- the AI Enthusiast, Secret User, Skeptic, and Onlooker This event is what sent me on the hunt, spending many seconds on crafting a quick Google search to find ...
- the Bystander, Conversationlist, Automator, and Orchestrator.
- the Skeptic, the Empowered, the Cowboy, the Blocker, and the AI-native.
- the Curious but cautious, Dabbler, Enthusiast, Emergent explorer, and Resounding rejector (that one seems to have some underpinning research which is ...
- ... possibly related to the ones in this research paper Enthusiasts, Dabblers, Gradual Explorers, Evaluators, and Rejectors
- the Scaler, Horizon builder, Streamliner, and Reinventor (this applies to organisations, rather than people)
- the Scientist, the Sculptor, the Maker, and the Leveraged Financier.
- The Intellectual Individualist, The Collaborative Conformer, The Conflict-Driven Contestant, and The People Pleaser (this categorises the LLMs themselves, so it could form the basis of a fun "what LLM am I" game)
- the Sage, Warrior, Creator, Producer ("and others" - I only had access to the abstract, it's a Springer publication)
- I asked Gemini to synthesise the above into four categories and it came up with: Advanced champions; Practical Crafters & Experimenters; Risk-Aware Evaluators & Observers, and Resistive Blockers & Volatile Disruptors. I think it needs to do more work on crafty snappy category names.
I recommend you develop your own set of archetypes e.g. the Sage Dabbler or the Conflict-Driven Cowboy.
The rabbit hole also led me to an interesting paper on How do employees imagine AI they would like to work with: a drawing study
Image created with Midjourney AI: I prompted it to show four archetypes, with the names the AI came up with, but did not mention that they were AI user archetypes as I wanted to avoid the usual spooky-woman-robot-with-wires
