With all its promise, AI is so powerful, that it–if not constrained–offers unparalleled social and civilizational threat. We should know both sides of the coin before it figure out how to deal with it.
We can manipulated by something without a conscience, that knows us better than we know ourselves.
You won’t know it’s happening. That’s the point. A photo here, a headline there. A slight shift in what you see first. A delay in what you don’t. AI systems now orchestrate feeds, optimize messages, and A/B test persuasion strategies at population scale. They learn what moves you—not what moves people, you. And they use it.
When we have no touchmarks in common, we have no culture.
Art used to carry the weight of experience. Painters painted from life. Poets bled into their work. Songs came from struggle, joy, faith. Now, AI generates art without memory, music without longing, prose without authorship.
Human civilization depends on a simple premise: we can know what’s real.
A. photo, a recording, a document—these once served as anchors. Evidence. Memory. Reality.
When we have no touchmarks in common, we have no culture.
Art used to carry the weight of experience. Painters painted from life. Poets bled into their work. Songs came from struggle, joy, faith. Now, AI generates art without memory, music without longing, prose without authorship.
Human civilization depends on a simple premise: we can know what’s real.
A. photo, a recording, a document—these once served as anchors. Evidence. Memory. Reality.