Artificial Intelligence

In developing Artificial Intelligence, we have initiated one of the most consequential milestones of our time.

Our intelligence has always been contained within our biology. Now we are extending our intelligence into machines, from carbon  into silicon. We are entering the Age of Multinodal Intelligence in which the machine intelligences we are creating are now developing distinct from and in ways superior to our own. AI is rapidly changing human commerce, politics, science, education, culture and personal lives, the consequences of which are not known because AI is largely unregulated. It is now operating at levels far advanced from current human intelligence and is becoming a distinct entity in and of itself. AI as an independent intelligence with its own agency will now co-evolve with human intelligence. 

The unregulated exponential growth in AI is an example of the failure of human intelligence. In unleashing AI, we have completely ignored the precautionary principle, that we need to proceed with caution with innovations the consequences of which we don’t understand. We seem motivated by little more than power and profit. How we interact with this new invention of human intelligence will determine our fate in fundamental ways. It may be that integrating AI with Nature Intelligence and Cosmic Intelligence will be the only way of ensuring that it remains benign.