AI is getting smarter and I am thinking there is an effort to make humans less intelligent. Our brains are being trained on social media. The highly addictive short form content is mostly hearsay, opinions, and minor news. Our children are consuming hours upon hours of mindless content. Objectively, someone might argue, this technology has been created to make it harder for humans to think.
AI can do the thinking for you. Soon it will drive your car, do your job, and much more. Naturally, our inner dialogue will be replaced by AI dialogue. It’s not difficult to imagine this future being reality in a few years whereby our sense of self is “me and it” together forever. Your reasoning, judgement and logic can be passed on to your internal AI link who is much better at these things.
So we adapt and evolve and soon we are super intelligent too, existing in a hybrid biological human brain to computer interface reality. It’s likely we will never think in the same way again. It’s not necessarily a bad thing. Its just once we go there, we may never be able to go back.
Like a calculator, mobile phone, and computer. These are the tools that enable us to do more. The brain will evolve to depend on AI and may not be able to think without it. A small price to pay for super intelligence you might say.
What does it mean to live in a world, where humans don’t think? Millions of humans sharing access to the same intelligence in their heads. What is your agency as a connected individual, whereby the majority of thinking is outsourced to the cloud? It’s not difficult to imagine that the price of connected intelligence, is the end of individual autonomy.
