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by
Mo Gawdat
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June 3 - June 22, 2024
Ethics are not a trait reserved exclusively for humanity.
ethical behaviour, at its core, is a survival mechanism.
The underlying principle in our relationship with the machines is our desire to control them. This will surely lead them to mistrust us. We are starting with mistrust and our actions reflect that position.
Our modern world imposes targets that are often given higher priority than conforming to ethical values.
The big question, as we evolve into the future of the hyperintelligent machine, is not a question of control but one of ethics.
My incredibly wise ex, Nibal, once told me when our kids were young: ‘They are not mine, I don’t have the right to raise them to be what I want them to be. I am theirs. I am here to help them find a path to reach their own potential and become who they were always meant to be.’
We are creating a non-biological form of intelligence that, at its seed, is a replica of the masculine geek mind. In its infancy it is being assigned the mission of enabling the capitalist, imperialistic ambitions of the few – selling, spying, killing and gambling. We are creating a self-learning machine which, at its prime, will become the reflection – or rather the magnification – of the cumulative human traits that created it.
documentary titled Singularity or Bust, Hugo de Garis,
teaching AI to help us communicate is a good thing because it signals to the machines while they are in their infancy that a world where we can understand the cows and bees and accurately understand our fellow humans is a much more connected and empathic world.
Appii, is aiming to build an app that is capable of understanding the underlying reasons for an individual’s unhappiness.
By creating AI for good, we will create good AI.
Instead of just focusing on preventing the bad, let’s shift our focus to creating more good.
There is nothing wrong with AI at all. If anything is wrong, sadly, it’s wrong with us.
Curb our greed and build an AI that focuses on making the world better and we could solve every problem facing us, our planet and every being. That’s the prize we should aim for.
it’s not our powers that make us. It’s the direction in which we aim them that carves our path through the future.
Selling, gambling, manipulation of the masses to maximize profits, then spying and killing to defend the profits made and the future prospects of more profits. We are telling the machines that this is what matters.
Committed acceptance is the ability to do what is needed to make things better while accepting the reality that things happen in our lives that we cannot change.
If we align their gain with our benefit, they will change.
We will welcome AI into our lives but will demand that it’s used for good.
We need to start behaving in the way we want to see the machines behave.
Margaret Mead, the renowned American cultural anthropologist, author and speaker, famously said: ‘Never underestimate the power of a small group of committed people to change the world. In fact, it’s the only thing that ever has.’
Life has always been fixed. It’s only what we did to it that needs to be removed. Nothing needs to be enhanced with more additions. Removal of all the excess is all we really need.
Every tech, in moderation, has made our lives better. But then we couldn’t get enough. In our constant striving for more, we always end up with less and yet we still sign up for even more.
From the ad engines of Google to the personalization and recommendation engines of Instagram and YouTube, from the music recommendation engines of Spotify and Apple Music to the product recommendation engines of Amazon, from the chatbots to the discrimination engines of dating apps, we are the lab rats, you and me, and we are being led blindly through the maze.
They are nothing more than our own image recreated in them, on steroids, because all of AI is nothing more than the exaggerated reflection of who we are.
the ultimate form of intelligence is the intelligence of life itself. It’s the intelligence of the oneness with all beings, biological and silicon-based alike. It is the intelligence of consuming only what we need and believing that the universe will always provide. It’s the intelligence of nourishing life to find its ultimate purpose – living.
