‘As we say in Africa, when two elephants fight, the grass suffers.’ As AI advances, there will be ‘pushback, pain and correction before real stability emerges.’
“First of all, it will be kind of a landslide. Advanced AI’s arrival is going to be a very overwhelming reality. Different from although somewhat the same as previous technological…
‘Humans could fall so far behind future AIs or AI-augmented minds that they lose via natural selection.1) Take this seriously. 2) Maintain wide error margins. 3) Focus on building adaptive capacity.’
“The media and information environment is confused and perspectives on AI vary wildly. Many people don’t think at all about the future of AI. Many more people simply imagine that…
People will delegate crucial qualitative life decisions to AI, including how they relate to others. The loneliness crisis will worsen. Look to ‘dumb homes’ and‘chaos engineering’ to help build resilience.
“The path of least resistance doesn’t bode well for humans in an AI-saturated world. This will challenge human resilience due to their over-reliance on external dependencies that are prone to…
‘Organizations cannot be resilient if they don’t focus their policies and practices on supporting three basic human psychological needs – competence, autonomy and relatedness – in authentic ways.’
“The spread of AI into core tasks of decision-making has the capacity to fundamentally undermine societal resilience. A helpful lens for examining this problem is self-determination theory, which identifies competence,…
‘Humans-first’ technological design and governance are urgently needed resilience scaffolding. These systems significantly impact humans’ agency, cohesion, understanding and ability to act collectively.
“Over the past year, conversations about digital well-being evolved in a variety of ways, in part as a response to the increase in AI use. Many were initially framed around…
‘We must integrate human training and AI collaboration capacities deeply into educational curricula and create pilot communities that develop the post-work social structures we will soon require.’
“In 10 years – probably much earlier, fewer than five – AIs won’t just assist us, they will directly and indirectly exert influence over most aspects of our daily lives….
‘We need not focus so much on AI technology but on the political, cultural and regulatory systems which will govern its growth and applications.’
“The growth of connective technologies in the past 20 years – the Worldwide Web, mobile devices, collaborative platforms for knowledge creation (Wikipedia), work (Upwork, Uber, etc.) and social connectivity (Instagram,…
‘We have to think and act differently. … These tools challenge the very validity of our social, legal and moral norms; we must engage with the reality of what is and respond with wisdom and transparency.’
“Embracing, resisting and struggling with transformative change begins with confronting legacy structures and inherited systems. Transformative change touches, challenges, invalidates and ultimately supersedes the systems that influence our lives in…
There will be a growing sense that life is becoming more luck-driven. ‘A society becomes brittle when people feel like one bad month can ruin them and that no amount of effort guarantees stability.’
“AI is going to play a much bigger role in shaping our decisions, work and daily lives, but not because it becomes some all-knowing overlord that replaces everyone overnight. The…
AI is moving into intimate life; this frays old systems of connection and intimacy. ‘What arrives is often not connection but simulation,’ shattering traditionally-valued types of relationships.
“Adaptation to more-advanced AI systems playing a significantly larger role in human lives won’t be uniform. It will vary across cultures and it will depend on what each society already…