So you are smart. Congratulations! Good for you! But have you ever stopped to consider how much of that intelligence is truly earned? How much of your ability to reason, analyze, and problem-solve was the result of deliberate effort, and how much was simply given to you by chance? If...
Is the future still in our own hands? I asked myself this question after I read a 2024 article - Here is the link, https://hbr.org/2024/01/leading-in-a-world-where-ai-wields-power-of-its-own - that claimed the following; ´AI has been subtly influencing us for years, but a new generation of vastly more capable technology is now emerging....
I just heard the most disturbing comment in a Lex Fridman interview with Roman Yampolskiy, regarding the dangers of superintelligent AI. Yampolskiy talked about x-risk, existential risk, where everyone´s dead. Then, s-risk, suffering risk, where everyone wishes they were dead. Finally, i-risk, ikigai risks, where humanity has lost its meaning...