The Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung made introversion and extraversion central elements of his theory of psychological types over a century ago. Today, these terms are used as a shorthand way of describing how sociable someone is, although Jung's original distinction was much broader than simply liking parties or being surrounded by other people.
In his work "Psychological Types," published in 1921, Jung described introversion and extraversion as distinct orientations that go beyond superficial sociability. The spelling he preferred was "extraverted" (extravert), not the form that is currently more common.
This original distinction proposed by Jung raises a question in the age of generative artificial intelligence. The question is: if people differ in how they naturally orient themselves toward their inner and outer worlds, should they also use AI in different ways?
