Can AI help us solve our problems?

Question from the Internet:

“How can we as individuals make use of AI tools to stay prepared for natural disasters?”

As the question rightly states, AI is a tool. How it performs and what it achieves depends on how we use it. Thus, it is foolish to expect AI “to solve our problems” or “take over the world,” and it is also foolish to blame any tool for poor results.

Everything depends on the user, on the human beings.

And here comes the problem.

By default, driven by our inherently and 100% self-serving, self-justifying, and individualistic egos, we use everything only for our own sake and benefit while we also try to achieve success and survive at the expense of others.

This is why everything we invent, develop or build ends up being used as tools to control, manipulate, and exploit others or even destroy others while benefiting ourselves in any way possible.

This is the single reason humanity is now blindly marching toward a seemingly inevitable and imminent self-destruction. As our technology and tools developed, our destructive ability also increased.

With the amount of weapons and technology of mass destruction available all over the world, we have the ability — and seemingly we have the desire — to destroy Earth and everything on it many times over.

At the same time, we are totally and desperately helpless when it comes to natural disasters and the mounting global problems that are threatening our continuing existence — even if we do not destroy ourselves first.

Thus, instead of focusing on AI and other technologies and debating what they can or cannot do, we need to focus on ourselves first. We will need to humbly recognize our inherent nature as destructive and self-destructive, and we will need to develop a true and irrepressible desire to change and further develop ourselves — each person changing and developing oneself instead of blaming, correcting, censoring, or punishing others.

When we have already changed and properly developed ourselves and become able to exist and act for the sake of others and for the sake and well-being of the whole system — above and against our inherent nature, then we will be able to use all our technologies and tools for true and effective solutions.