‘Motors stole silence from our world and electric light severed our intimate connection with all that exists in darkness beyond our illuminated bubble. What will AI take? Solitude.’
“Every technological advance conceals a consequent loss, but the novelty is always so glittering and the loss so gradual, we never notice what was lost until long after it is…
Tech disruptions of the past teach us such change can be harmful. While AI as it stands today is an extractive industry benefiting technology plutocrats, mitigation guardrails can eventually be built.
“The impact of the technological innovations of the past 200 years has made it clear that as new developments in science and technology create new possibilities they also fundamentally change…
‘Future generations may accept displacement by AI as their lot in life.’ Due to humans’ tendency to ‘take shortcuts that serve immediate needs, most will respond with a despondent shrug.’
“Responses to a larger role played by more-advanced AI in human activity will be shaped according to cultures, attentions and abilities. In an individualistic society like the one seen today…
Real resilience comes from embracing things that can’t be captured in data or resolved through optimization; resisting convenience and developing the ability to operate in genuine uncertainty.
“What skills or practices will help us stay resilient as AI reshapes work and life? Maybe people will look to algorithms to optimize everything – including just how much fat…
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…
‘Transition is the new normal. … It is not about bouncing back to where we were, but about continuously adapting to where we are going,’ taking charge as the agents of our adaptation.
“Digital transformation is not an event but a continuous condition requiring ongoing adaptive practice. To thrive amid constant change, we must cultivate cognitive, emotional, social and ethical capacities that enable…
Resilience in the AI era takes two forms: adaptive coping and agency enabling. Both are necessary, but we must shape AI to support agency. Too much adaptive coping can erode moral clarity and action.
“Artificial intelligence changes how we work, learn, access services, consume information and make decisions. The most immediate concern is that AI can undermine individual and societal resilience: It can destabilize…
At a time when AI is fast-becoming infrastructure, resilience relies most upon strong legal and civic institutions rather than on people’s individual strengths. Those without such institutions will suffer.
“Artificial intelligence is already becoming more consequential and less visible than just a year ago as the infrastructure through which institutions perceive reality and act upon it. AI is embedding…
Foundations of resilience dissolve when AI simultaneously mediates and undermines our relationships with our own ‘internal authority,’ our perceived authority of others and epistemic truth.
“AI has fundamentally changed the relational fabric of our society. Full stop. Not just how we connect with others, but how we relate to ourselves, our work, our knowledge and…
Understand ‘cognitive triage’ and avoid ‘going with the flow.’ Real resilience is judgment about what matters, when to trust, when to pause and think. Vital ingredients: deliberate friction and existential and AI literacy.
“As AI systems start shaping our decisions, work and daily lives the big question is not, ‘Will we adapt?’ Humans adapt to anything. We adapted to public transport, email and…