Can AI save humanity?
Question from the Internet:
“Would AI be more qualified to bring about world peace since humans are driven by ego and less so by logic?”
I agree with you that humans are driven by ego and their selfish desire to fulfil themselves at the expense of others.
But then, how could an AI, invented, developed, built and programmed by egocentric, selfish and exploitative human beings, can help us?
Do we really think that human beings are capable of creating an entity that is different from us?
Can we create something out of nothing, a logical, objective, pure and perfect entity when we ourselves do not have those qualities?
Nothing that humans make or develop can be different from us.
If we want to change, we need to use methods and forces that are “outside of us” to change us. We can’t simply lift ourselves by pulling our own hair. All our knowledge, sciences and technology are based on our inherently egocentric, subjective and exploitative nature serving that nature.
If we want peace, problem-solving, and safeguarding our continuing and collective human survival in Nature’s finely balanced and mutually integrated system, we need “external help” to change and further develop us.
We need to learn how to harness Nature’s all-encompassing evolutionary forces to develop us in a way that we become similar to Nature’s selfless, unconditionally and mutually complementing living system above and against our inherent nature.
The system is set up in a way that human evolution, and humanity’s adaptation to the system, require our conscious and willing participation by actively engaging with Nature’s forces. If we “choose” to remain passive, then negative and increasing pressure from the system will exert influence on us. Then intolerable suffering will forge and mould us into the peaceful and mutually complementing cells that will comprise Humanity’s single body.
We are the only parts of Nature’s system with the free choice for conscious and willing participation in evolution. It is time we learned how to use this free choice!