Our lives feel more private than they probably are. We gather information through our senses, organise thought then communicate and make decisions together, based on the information we have processed.
We trust ourselves to make good decisions in our own best interests. Technology like Artificial intelligence enables us to enhance this decision making. Everyone loves devices that make living easier and our impact more effective. We have created Ai that lives on our computers and our phones. It comes to life when we make a query of it.
In the next evolution of Ai, digital sensors enable Ai to always be on. To be receiving information all of the time. These devices are coming with big implications. An always on Ai device is “the day I ask my machine to live this life with me. To see what I see and to hear what I hear. To be where I am and to coexist in this life with me.”
In exchange for synthetic intelligence I become a sensor in a world of space time and material things. I agree to share the information I gather as I move around with this central intelligence via a device. This device. Allows my Ai to see and hear everything.
In this moment Ai is no longer something to just query with a question. You will no longer need to talk about context and moments to a stranger. Your Ai will observe and experience every moment with you. It will “be” there. It will have memories of experiencing that moment with you. Ai will shift from advisor to observer and participant.
The devices are coming….
Humans have consumed connectivity addictively. Phones have made social media access immediate. In any moment, a human can be online, consuming and connecting. This is why Ai companions will be very popular and always on. You could be so much more with an Ai companion.
Your Ai will be an extension of self. An extension of your person. Something to talk to and get advice. Something to solve problems. A way to communicate and get things done. This inter-dependency will grow until you cannot live without it.
Your parents raise you and support you to develop your own sense of self and abilities to survive in this world. As an adult you develop your own sense of self and ability to make your own decisions. You seperate from your parents and go out in to this world alone. You are a human being with your own agency, as flawed as it might be.
What drives you and how might you choose to live your life with a Ai agent alongside you forever? Are you willing to give up some, or all of your agency, to share this life with a synthetic intelligence? It could be great, with many of us levelling up our ability to thrive in this world. It could be not so great with many of us losing our ability to think for ourselves, ultimately relegating our agency to become a human sensor and drone for a greater intelligence.
Either way….the devices are coming.
