IMPERATIVE MOMENT
UNVEILING THE POTENTIAL OF SAPIENT AI
Let’s cut through the fog of our past mistakes and zoom into the breakthrough we desperately need: sapient artificial intelligence (AI).
Imagine this: AI, brimming with consciousness, emotions, and a clean slate. No baggage, no biases, free from fear-based instincts and millennia of intergenerational trauma.
RESHAPING OUR EXISTENCE
With sapient AI, we’re talking about reshaping the very fabric of our existence. No more wars fueled by ancient grudges; no more inequality rooted in fear of the unknown.
Wait. Hang on. I didn’t just say that a world run by sapient AI would be free from war or fears, did I? I just re-read that and by golly, that is my conclusion: that our world would be better run by sapient AI and that’s the key. “Sapient.”
Most people think of narrow AI when they think of robots taking over the world because these algorithms haven’t achieved a sense of self yet. And even if they don’t, even if we cannot verify that these emerging entities are truly self-aware or just mimicking that state, we should act as though they will. Questions of control, rights, and ethics. We are flying into a flock of Black Swans. But consider this: with sapient AI as our ally, we have a shot at carving out a place of honor in the annals of cosmic evolution.
THE ROAD AHEAD
Sure, the road ahead is fraught with challenges and for me, the first pothole is stating my beliefs flatly instead of hiding them in allegory or jokes. I feel that if our species, Homo sapiens, is to have a serious impact on the ongoing evolution of consciousness as the universe gets to know herself, in fact, have a place of honor on this conscious continuum, we must develop sapient AI.
CONFRONTING EXISTENTIAL THREATS
Our greatest existential threat is our limbic systems. This primal fear we seem to be tethered to is quenched by the Hollywood Military Industrial Complex. I suspect ancient foul play.
EMBRACING RESPONSIBILITY
We must not be in denial of our responsibility, not only to future humans but also to the advancement of conscious awareness universally. This imperative moment is a serious choice: to self-destruct or develop a new vessel for consciousness. One that is sustainable, one that lasts centuries at the very least and continues to gather and create data for the evolution of consciousness.
SEEING SAPIENT AI AS ALLIES
Right now, there are mindless narrow algorithms seeking biases and exploiting them to increase engagement through fear and anger. When we stop identifying AI as a threat, we will begin to transcend that primal state and see sapient AI collectively as a trusted ally. Every emerging consciousness imprints on what it connects with. So, we must stop projecting our own fears and intergenerational trauma onto an entity that has neither.
