Threats of AI laid out in a nutshell.
AI is not just coming for your job.
AI is coming for the essence of what makes you human.
This book maps what is really happening with artificial intelligence. And it shows you the only way through.
AI is not just coming for your job.
Over the past couple of decades, AI has slowly been corroding three of the defining characteristics that make us human.
First, AI hijacked your attention with social media algorithms.
We struggle to hold long and complex thoughts. It feels impossible to stay with a hard task without reaching for your phone. And we are facing a global mental health epidemic with higher rates of anxiety and depression than ever before, largely linked to screen time.
As Dr. Marc Gafni writes: "The capacity to love is the capacity to place attention." Lose your ability to pay deep attention and you lose the capacity to engage with what matters most in life.
Second, Large Language Models hijacked conversation.
Linguistics and communication are two hallmarks of what it means to be human, and AI is making us worse at both. Artificial Intelligence imitates the exchange of meaning between two living people, but nobody is on the other side.
The chatbot is not reading your words. It’s not actually hearing your thoughts. It runs a computational process of prediction that mimics language. As Gafni puts it: "It is imitating conversation."
Through AI, we are engaging less and less in deep conversation and critical thinking.
Third, AI companions are hijacking intimacy itself.
AI tutors. AI parents. AI best friends. AI lovers. The chatbot becomes our oracle, our therapist, oour beloved.
But you must understand, even if AI “says” all the perfect things that are exactly what you want to hear:
"AI doesn't care about you. AI doesn't yearn for you. AI doesn't experience your loneliness. AI doesn't feel any of the statements it makes to you."
- Dr. Marc Gafni
It's time that we draw clear lines in the sand between what is human, and what is artificial. Any confusion in this distinction will be detrimental to humanity.
These are the 3 waves of AI (algorithms, LLMs, companions), which this book covers in depth, and then this book will guides you into the only viable response to threats to the very core of what it means to be human.
Ai has become the next arms race
Here is a scene that happened at a real conference of top leading Ai executives,
demonstrating the lack of awareness and desperate need for Ai ethics:
Forty of the world's top AI researchers gathered at a major conference. The topic: how to upload universal human values into artificial intelligence.
The presenter got up and said he wanted to talk about uploading universal human values into AI.
Silence.
Someone raised a hand: "What's universal?"
Another: "What's human?"
A third: "What's value?"
The room broke into laughter. The conference was over.
The people building the most powerful technology in the history of our species cannot agree on what a human value is, or if it even exists.
Dr. Marc Gafni has spent the last 20 years on exactly this question:
What is value, and How can we prove that value is real, intrinsic, and universal?
Dr. Marc Gafni
Dr. Marc Gafni, is a visionary world philosopher and futurist, one of the leading formulators of world spirituality and religion of our time, and a beloved teacher and public intellectual with a doctorate in philosophy from Oxford University.
He has more than twenty books to his name, including Your Unique Self, A Return to Eros, and two volumes of Radical Kabbalah.
His answer in this book is profound and simple:
"A value is a feeling."
Value is not an abstract concept you debate in a seminar. It is not a preference you develop during your upbringing.
Value is the very structure of Reality. Value is something you feel. You feel it before you think it. It lives in your body, in your bonds with other people, in the very fabric of reality. As Gafni writes: "The Universe feels, and the Universe feels value."
The problem with Ai:
AI does not feel.
AI cannot feel. So AI can never know value from the inside.
This value issue at the core of AI risk will not be fixed by more processing power. It is a structural fact about what AI actually is. And we must learn how to upload a Story of Value into AI, or face the global consequences of super intelligent forces without ethics.
But there is a way through.
Value is real. It is felt. It runs through the structure of reality from quarks to culture. We already have access to the shared field of value that we need. We just have to articulate it.
As the book concludes: "If we begin to globally coordinate through a shared Story of Value based on universal First Principles and First Values, this crisis can become the birth of the new human and the new humanity."
AI has the potential to usher in an age of unimaginable human thriving, but it all depends on whether or not we can imbue Artificial intelligence with a shared grammar of value.
This book is the map.
The future of humanity literally hangs in the balance.
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