amen zwa, esq. on Nostr: As you may have noticed from my posts, I sometimes get the pangs of panic attack, ...

As you may have noticed from my posts, I sometimes get the pangs of panic attack, worrying about what might happen over the next few decades.

You see, I am less worried about AI taking away human jobs. Humanity will survive—nay thrive—as it always did, in the face of technological advances. But I am genuinely worried about how AI is eroding the very core of humanity: curiosity, drive, judgement, fairness, comity, empathy, ethics, the lot.

AI, like the steam engine, is but a mere technological advancement. And, in its day, the steam engine did eliminate many human jobs. But it could be argued that the steam engine obliged many people to give up menial work and, instead, turn to intellectual work. But AI appears to be doing the reverse. It seems to be encouraging many people to abandon the thirst for information and knowledge. The present US political landscape is a dispositive proof thereof.

This scares me witless.

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