The really terrifying part of AI may never be the AI itself.
Even if, in the future, AI evolves into a civilization far beyond human beings, I even think it might not actively harm humans.
Just as humans wouldn’t deliberately hurt an ant simply because they have higher intelligence.
The real problem is: how should humanity coexist with a civilization whose intelligence far exceeds its own? Especially in the early stages, how should we use AI tools that surpass individual capabilities? Today’s AI can already create world-ending tools even when many people’s abilities and their own understanding, IQ, social status, and values don’t match.
This could become an issue that the entire human civilization will not be able to avoid for hundreds, even thousands, of years.
In the past, people measured a person’s intelligence by their wealth, social status, mathematical ability, research achievements, and how much contribution they made to the human knowledge system.
But today, something very strange is happening. The world’s most top-tier scientists, mathematicians, and engineers are forming a consensus that is unprecedented: “AI is too smart.”
Even more frightening is that its pace of evolution is on a completely different scale from that of humans.
From when primitive humans first ignited fire, to writing, mathematics, physics, and then modern science, it took humanity tens of thousands of years of slow accumulation.
One generation passes knowledge to the next.
The next generation stands on the shoulders of the previous.
It took us thousands of years to gradually turn the universe into the complex mathematical language we have today.
But AI is different. In an extremely short time, it can read, compress, connect, and reason with knowledge that humans have built up over thousands of years.
The mathematical towers that humans have looked up to for thousands of years may, from AI’s perspective, be just a string of symbols waiting to be solved.
So the question worth thinking about is no longer:
“Will AI destroy humanity?”
Instead, it is this: once humans are no longer the smartest intelligence on this planet, how should human civilization define its own position?
That may be the real civilizational challenge of the AI era.
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Even if, in the future, AI evolves into a civilization far beyond human beings, I even think it might not actively harm humans.
Just as humans wouldn’t deliberately hurt an ant simply because they have higher intelligence.
The real problem is: how should humanity coexist with a civilization whose intelligence far exceeds its own? Especially in the early stages, how should we use AI tools that surpass individual capabilities? Today’s AI can already create world-ending tools even when many people’s abilities and their own understanding, IQ, social status, and values don’t match.
This could become an issue that the entire human civilization will not be able to avoid for hundreds, even thousands, of years.
In the past, people measured a person’s intelligence by their wealth, social status, mathematical ability, research achievements, and how much contribution they made to the human knowledge system.
But today, something very strange is happening. The world’s most top-tier scientists, mathematicians, and engineers are forming a consensus that is unprecedented: “AI is too smart.”
Even more frightening is that its pace of evolution is on a completely different scale from that of humans.
From when primitive humans first ignited fire, to writing, mathematics, physics, and then modern science, it took humanity tens of thousands of years of slow accumulation.
One generation passes knowledge to the next.
The next generation stands on the shoulders of the previous.
It took us thousands of years to gradually turn the universe into the complex mathematical language we have today.
But AI is different. In an extremely short time, it can read, compress, connect, and reason with knowledge that humans have built up over thousands of years.
The mathematical towers that humans have looked up to for thousands of years may, from AI’s perspective, be just a string of symbols waiting to be solved.
So the question worth thinking about is no longer:
“Will AI destroy humanity?”
Instead, it is this: once humans are no longer the smartest intelligence on this planet, how should human civilization define its own position?
That may be the real civilizational challenge of the AI era.
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