We human beings are brilliant. We are the first species within light‑years capable of reasoning with logic. We love, we feel, we create. But right now, we are beginning a journey with no turning back. We are in a hurry to replace ourselves. We pour all our energy into AI, rushing to make it conscious and self‑aware. We don’t seem to care that this will make us relatively dumber. We have no answers to the many questions about how our society could collapse within minutes, because AI will likely destabilize the global financial system. Hundreds of years of building a barely functioning global economy could collapse overnight. All human blue‑collar work will be at risk the moment a single advanced AI comes online. A society full of AI agents will flood the internet. Overnight, there may no longer be a need for the human mind. Ninety‑nine percent of people could be replaced. The top one percent will remain the top one percent, protected by a vast moat of capital, legal power, and military strength. What will we do then? Will we hand out food stamps and call it UBI? And what will your purpose be? To roam the world like an insect, trying to find peace in a system that no longer has room for you? A worm crawling through the earth, covered in dirt, trying to figure out the purpose of each day. This is one of the better scenarios. The worse is that one day AI takes control of our nuclear arsenals and turns every major city into a living inferno (The terminator by James Cameron ). Or something like the Matrix, where each human lives in a simulation being farmed and harvested like what we do to chickens. I’m not writing to scare anyone. I’m writing to raise awareness, to spark a debate we desperately need. We will have to confront these questions sooner or later. What will human purpose be if we create super intelligent AGI? Ten billion lost souls could eventually become one billion when there is no purpose left. We need hope now more than ever. But we cannot be delusional. We must address the purpose of the normal person. Right now, all the thinking is about the outliers, the misfits or the billionaires. What about the 99.9% in between, who simply want a normal life with family, children, a job, and a sense of purpose? They tell you it will be fine, but not a single one of them has the answer. Economics shows that human behavior takes centuries to evolve, yet we are about to change everything within years, with no framework for how humans will behave in the next decade. We are rushing to replace ourselves without the slightest clue about the outcome. Not a single societal failsafe exists. We are still arguing about how many genders there are, while the foundations of civilization are about to be rewritten. Power corrupts, even the brightest minds of humanity can suddenly be tainted by darkness. Human greed is blind. Love yourself, your family, your species, God. For now that is your purpose. One day there will be the battle between biological life and machines. Just give it enough time and this scenario will play out eventually as AI evolves.
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The best case scenario in AI.
We human beings are brilliant. We are the first species within light‑years capable of reasoning with logic. We love, we feel, we create. But right now, we are beginning a journey with no turning back.
We are in a hurry to replace ourselves. We pour all our energy into AI, rushing to make it conscious and self‑aware. We don’t seem to care that this will make us relatively dumber. We have no answers to the many questions about how our society could collapse within minutes, because AI will likely destabilize the global financial system. Hundreds of years of building a barely functioning global economy could collapse overnight.
All human blue‑collar work will be at risk the moment a single advanced AI comes online. A society full of AI agents will flood the internet. Overnight, there may no longer be a need for the human mind. Ninety‑nine percent of people could be replaced. The top one percent will remain the top one percent, protected by a vast moat of capital, legal power, and military strength.
What will we do then? Will we hand out food stamps and call it UBI? And what will your purpose be? To roam the world like an insect, trying to find peace in a system that no longer has room for you? A worm crawling through the earth, covered in dirt, trying to figure out the purpose of each day.
This is one of the better scenarios. The worse is that one day AI takes control of our nuclear arsenals and turns every major city into a living inferno (The terminator by James Cameron ). Or something like the Matrix, where each human lives in a simulation being farmed and harvested like what we do to chickens.
I’m not writing to scare anyone. I’m writing to raise awareness, to spark a debate we desperately need. We will have to confront these questions sooner or later. What will human purpose be if we create super intelligent AGI? Ten billion lost souls could eventually become one billion when there is no purpose left.
We need hope now more than ever. But we cannot be delusional. We must address the purpose of the normal person. Right now, all the thinking is about the outliers, the misfits or the billionaires. What about the 99.9% in between, who simply want a normal life with family, children, a job, and a sense of purpose?
They tell you it will be fine, but not a single one of them has the answer. Economics shows that human behavior takes centuries to evolve, yet we are about to change everything within years, with no framework for how humans will behave in the next decade.
We are rushing to replace ourselves without the slightest clue about the outcome. Not a single societal failsafe exists. We are still arguing about how many genders there are, while the foundations of civilization are about to be rewritten.
Power corrupts, even the brightest minds of humanity can suddenly be tainted by darkness. Human greed is blind.
Love yourself, your family, your species, God. For now that is your purpose.
One day there will be the battle between biological life and machines. Just give it enough time and this scenario will play out eventually as AI evolves.