Human's AI paradox |
Imagine a future wherein you free yourself from life's traditional demands and find algorithms and humanoid robots handling your cognition, decision-making and day-to-day choices. You gain more free time than any generation in history by fully delegating your agency. Yet with so much free time, little remains that is truly yours to choose. This is freedom without agency - a win-win that is neither free nor winning. That imagined future is already around the corner. AI-driven freedom is fast turning into an invisible yoke of the mind: a slavery to untested masters of our own making and a submission of hard-earned human agency and experience.
Though the origin of the universe dates back 13.8 billion years, the early hominins, such as Ardipithecus, walked in Africa around 4.4 to 6 million years ago, and the earliest stone tools appeared around 3.3 million years ago. How did humans evolve from those stone tools to today's era of advanced technology? What did it take to make it to the current climax of human........