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Founder at CALMDOJO. Envisioning a human flourishing alongside technology through embodied practices and mindfulness.

WILL HUMANS GO ON DOING HUMAN THINGS? While it is true that Generative AI is just another tool in the arsenal of the Homo Technologicus, it is worth noting that it is an extremely powerful and potentially dangerous one. It remains to be seen how well it performs for humanity as a whole, as opposed to for some humans who may possess the means to manipulate it. As we begin to interact with this shiny new tool in earnest, and it methodically proliferates every aspect of our lives: how we live, how we think, how we feel, its ubiquity may erode our own interactive capacities. It could reduce human creativity overall, and erode trust in our own wisdom as individuals and as a society. This could lead to an over-reliance on the technology to do our thinking for us, less verification of the content generated, not too dissimilar from the way we interact with social media tools today. We are human after all. Humans will indeed keep doing human things, great things like curing diseases and increasing the human lifespan, but also horrifying and brutal things like unleashing war and new diseases on unsuspecting populations, all in pursuit of a competitive advantage. In all these scenarios, it is vital we remember, that our humanness is the one factor in AI's inevitable proliferation that we have some control over. Embodied and mindful practices that predate these technologies, can help focus humans on what is most humane about us as a species: our potential for compassion, altruism, and our reflexivity. To actively cultivate these qualities to ensure human sustainability in the near future is crucial for a population interacting with AI, so we can work in tandem with the technology for the benefit of more. #beinghuman , #humansustainability , #homotechnologicus, #mindfulness, #samaltman, #artificialintelligence

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