The AI industry’s acceleration narrative ignores basic facts about the human body, the human mind, human behavior, and human societies. It might drag us to a dystopian future | Edition #278
AI’s Acceleration Paradox
Among the main promises of the AI industry today are productivity and acceleration.
People would use AI to complete more tasks in less time, AI would create and complete more tasks autonomously, and AI would coordinate other AIs to create and complete more tasks autonomously.
As a consequence, the AI industry says, countries would economically benefit from this AI-driven increase in production.
We would enter an era of abundant intelligence in which even the most technically complex challenges would be solved in a short period of time, including, for example, curing all diseases.
The premises above are part of the AI industry’s mainstream discourse today, and they help keep billions of dollars in investments flowing.
However, when you zoom in and look at how humans interact with AI and what AI-powered acceleration actually means, you realize that these promises are based on false premises.
They ignore basic facts about the human body, the human mind, human behavior, and human societies.
Also, these false premises are dragging us toward a dystopian future in which we will be forced to constantly minimize biological boundaries, ignore psychological needs, and devalue human expression to thrive in a world that prioritizes machines.
