Articles on AI and The Future of Humanity
What happens to people after the singularity? Every cell in your body already lives there. A look at the seven waves, 2035, and what stays human.
A neuroscientist spent forty years hunting consciousness in the brain and lost the bet. AI and consciousness: every function runs with nobody home.
Machines took the lifting and we built gyms. Now they are taking the thinking. The purpose economy pays for the qualities school trained out of you.
Google's profits jumped 3,500% the year it stopped protecting privacy. Technology amplifies whatever you feed it. What are you feeding it?
Life built toward the thinking brain one layer at a time. Your organization as an organism is climbing the same ladder, and AI sits at the top of it.
For two hundred years you adapted to the machine. AI removed that barrier. The human bottleneck is now the constraint, and it is a thinking problem.
A Hopi elder said there would be two kinds of human beings. Not those with technology and those without. The split he saw runs through each of us.
For a century we trained humans to behave like machines. Now soft skills are growing two and a half times faster than everything else. Value moved up.
AI can recall more facts than you could in a thousand lifetimes. It has still never understood one. The gap between knowing and understanding is ours.
We are outsourcing capabilities we have never stopped to define. Before the tools take more, it is worth asking what makes us human and what that is worth.