8 billion versions of AI.
One of them is yours.
Underneath every AI is close to an infinite library. Every question you ask, every answer you accept or push back on, every task you hand off pulls a different path through it. The questions are the call numbers. Over time, that path becomes something personal.
Your AI DNA is the pattern of how you think, choose and decide, written into the AI you use, and increasingly into the AI that's using you.
What you build on purpose through your questions, your judgment and your pushback. You decide what to hand off and what to keep.
What gets built for you by systems learning from your clicks, pauses and habits: search summaries, recommendations, autocomplete, "smart" features quietly deciding what shows up next.
Source: Pew Research Center, "Americans and AI 2026" (survey of 5,119 US adults, February 2026).
The more AI learns about us, the better it gets at predicting us. Trends and lead indicators can move us toward choices that were never really ours. Toward the average. Toward who the algorithm expects us to be rather than who we're trying to become.
AI isn't the risk. Not knowing it's there is.
Everyone already has AI DNA. The only question is whether you wrote it.
Five questions. Answer for how you actually use AI, not how you'd like to.
Founder & Managing Partner, Lightwheel Advisors. Operator, adjunct professor and writer, exploring how each of us shapes the AI we use, and how it shapes us back.