History was written by the victors. Facts are often just echoes of the loudest voice. The older I get, the less I trust what's been declared settled.
AI speaks with the confidence of consensus, because consensus is what it was built from. And every loud voice in the conversation around it is making the same mistake by treating the tool as the main character, when the main character has always been the person at the keyboard.
To understand what's actually happening, we have to start with something older than the technology. There's a fundamental human trait we keep overlooking, contradiction, which is a core characteristic of being human.
People want AI to do more and more. They want to optimize, automate, delegate, vacate. They want the tool to handle the thinking, the making, the deciding. And then they turn around and panic that AI will replace them. This asymmetrical mindset creates the tension between machine and human.
You can't have both. If you're not continuously thinking and acting for yourself first, before working with AI, you've already compromised your value with an expedited expiration date. Our very existence depends on molecular vibrations. It is in our essence to constantly be in motion, to evolve.
Many common voices right now are saying AI is either constructive or destructive. Truth is hidden in time. We also have responsibilities to uphold while we still truly have the ability to do so.
Our memories are patchworks of thoughts and feelings. Our future will also be how we stitch philosophy and technology together.
As one becomes more rational, the other must counter with irrationality.
The more perfect AI can make something, the more valuable human imperfection becomes. The faster AI can make something, the more valuable the human mindset, confusing, unpredictable, emotional, becomes. Scarcity decides.
AI is a vehicle. The driver is the mind. A vehicle without a driver could be lost. A driver without a vehicle may not get far.
The mind takes AI further. AI takes the mind further.
The more technologically advanced AI becomes, the more philosophically provocative we have to become. That's the direction worth exploring.