Out-sourcing our Brains to AI: The Threat You Didn’t See Coming
The gift of thought is the most precious thing we have. Without it, we would just be another species of animal.
— The Power of Now, Ecklart Tolle
What if I told you, “AI is at the brink of taking over humanity.”
Now, before you say — that’s ridiculous — and bounce off, hear me out in this 5 minutes post.
We have all seen movies like the Terminator where the indestructible killer robot roams the streets wiping out everything that stands on its way.
That’s Hollywood playing with the theater of our minds. It’s all fiction.
But our minds are so gullible that we tend to perceive the last battle between man and machine to play out exactly like in the movies.
And our friends at CNN and BBC and Washington Post have done an amazing job of reinforcing this perception.
But here’s the truth.
No AI robots are coming to take over our physical world. At least not in our lifetime.
But AI algorithms are already taking over our internal world. And by internal world, I mean our brains.
