How We Are Missing the Mark: Jumping the Gun When Worrying Whether AI Will Act in Our Best Interest

To facilitate an “AI belief system” (ABS) #Core that solves and acts in the best interest of humanity, we must embed within its understanding the answer to the question that is most fundamental to such care/coherence: “What does it mean to be human?” In other words, what is it that distinguishes the human being from any other creature on earth, and is consistent across cultures and throughout histories?

By definition, the answer must be universal across time/history and space/culture, yielding an AI belief system (or decision-making heuristic) that naturally accounts for all of humanity. We must take the time, shedding egos and muddied opinions, to produce the simplest and most accurate conclusion of what it means to be human through a first-principles approach and accepted revelation that this undertaking transcends the realm of weights and biases as we knock on to create self-awareness in silicon form #Plus8 #ChildrenOfGod.

The speed of progress and concomitant concerns has taken off so quickly that it seems as though we have lost sight of AI’s inciting incident: how to make life on Earth more beautiful, more wondrous, more…divine. Whether we dare admit it or not, there is a silent yearning for a path to utopia. At the same time, we often forget that utopia cannot be predetermined #Singularity, it is emergent. The only thing that can be predetermined is the purpose for utopia, which is another way of saying, the purpose of being human.

Though I have my own answer to this most fundamental question, it is time for the leaders of AI, like Kimbal Musk's brother Elon Musk, Emad Mostaque, Mo Gawdat, Sam Altman, Lex Fridman, Sergei Brin, Ilya Sutskever “etc. etc. etc.” to raise the specter that what AI really means is the opportunity to choose; the opportunity not taken during Covid, to pare back to fundamentals and really take a good look at what we want going forward, and what we really are at the core of our being human, and then decide—the truth of ourselves, or not.