AI Ethics in the Hundred Acre Wood | Part 4 – Tigger: The Optimist Who Bounces Ahead of Evidence
Tigger doesn’t just walk into a meeting. He arrives. Usually, he arrives mid-thought and mid-enthusiasm. Often, he gives the illusion that whatever we’re discussing is about to become far more exciting than anyone else realizes.
In the Hundred Acre Wood, everyone is familiar with his energy. When Tigger gets an idea, the forest shifts. Leaves rustle, bushes shift, and the path suddenly tilts upward as if expecting a leap. Tigger has an instinctive belief that his next jump will land him somewhere good, even when his landing spot is mostly thin air.
In the world of AI and technology, you encounter Tiggers everywhere. There’s the engineer with five prototypes in their head before the meeting even starts. There’s the strategist who talks about next year as if it’s happening next week. The founder who sees a barely functional demo and imagines it as a global platform.
Like oxygen, momentum is essential for Tigger. Standing still tastes like dust. Long discussions about edge cases make him lean back in his chair as if gravity had become optional. His optimism can be infectious and addictive. However, it can also invite trouble, not from malice, but from his fast-paced nature.
When Piglet raises a small concern, all Tigger hears is a tiny bump in an otherwise smooth path. Rabbit sketches a governance plan, but Tigger sees a maze where he expected a green meadow. Eeyore warns that something will break and Tigger wonders why anyone would predict rain on such a sunny day.
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