We can know 100% what AI will be.
We can know 100% what AI will be.
We can predict that with 100% accuracy.
Here’s how:
Eventually one learns that reality is neutral.
100% neutral.
Immovably so.
Nature is 100% neutral.
Always has been, always will be.
Ideas like right and wrong, good and bad, etc., are constructs projected upon neutral reality by human consciousness.
Similarly, AI itself, is 100% neutral.
What AI accesses is 100% human — the pre-existing recorded knowledge and works of humanity.
What animates AI is also 100% human — the various human goals, intentions, motivations, etc., we choose to use it for.
When AI does constructive things it will be because the human intention behind it was constructive.
When AI does destructive things it will be because the human intention behind it was destructive.
As we are, so AI will be.
We are fiercely predicting upon it right now that it might become nefarious, a bad actor, undermine the human race, etc.
What is happening there is projection.
We are projecting upon AI our own stuff, aspects of our most current nature.
Because we have those qualities and tendencies in ourselves, we will suspect those things in others.
It’s called negative projection. (And yes, there is also positive projection)
Whether it is on those fellow humans around us, the neighbor’s cat, a painting at the Louvre, or AI, we will project our own stuff.
“We don’t see the world as it is, we see it as we are.” — Anais Min
In my work, projection is one of the most powerful tools for self-awareness and mastery: If we are willing to own that outer experience is a reflection of our inner reality (tough, but highly effective medicine)— the good, the bad, the ugly, and the beautiful — we can use the outer to give us data that accelerates our personal evolution by exponentials.
Right now, among other things, we are projecting on AI both dark motivations and heroic motivations.
Because those are both true in ourselves.
And because our most persistent projection on AI is sentience, all of our other projections get a 10X amplification (also why our projection is the strongest on other humans).
And because we have both the potential to destroy the world and save the world, to hurt one another and heal one another, we project those on AI as potentially its innate motivations.
They will never be innate to AI.
They will have always in some way, whether through programming, pre-existing human knowledge, or imminent human motivations, have started with us.
And if we are willing to own that, we’ll discover in this unexpected place, AI can become our most powerful tool.
Not in its capabilities as a worker, a doer, or intelligence.
But in its immaculate capabilities as a mirror.
An absolute pristine mirror for humanity.
Instead of continuing to not take responsibility for our own stuff and dishing it out as “what the threat is with AI” (or our neighbor, or “the world out there”, or “those other people”, etc.…), we learn to use it to let us know what is up with us.
Knowing what AI is bringing back to us is always 100% human.
Knowing what is animating its motivation and tasks is always 100% human.
Knowing that all of the feelings being projected on it are always 100% human.
It can be a mirror that lets us know exactly where we have work to do.
How brilliant that we have made a tool that can provide us our reflection with 100% accuracy at this crucible moment of time in our evolution?
A 100% true mirror for humanity.
Wonderfully relentless in its reflection.
100% accurate to where we are, and who we are, at any given time.
100% accurate feedback on where our opportunities for betterment and evolution are.
What will AI be in the future?
AI will be what we are.
100%.
Imagine what we can do with that when we are willing to own it.
