Scary Smart: Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World

From the ad engines of Google to the personalization and recommendation engines of Instagram and YouTube, from the music recommendation engines of Spotify and Apple Music to the product recommendation engines of Amazon, from the chatbots to the discrimination engines of dating apps, we are the lab rats, you and me, and we are being led blindly thro

Margaret Mead, the renowned American cultural anthropologist, author and speaker, famously said: ‘Never underestimate the power of a small group of committed people to change the world. In fact, it’s the only thing that ever has.’

We need to start behaving in the way we want to see the machines behave.

We will welcome AI into our lives but will demand that it’s used for good.

Every tech, in moderation, has made our lives better. But then we couldn’t get enough. In our constant striving for more, we always end up with less and yet we still sign up for even more.

If we align their gain with our benefit, they will change.

They are nothing more than our own image recreated in them, on steroids, because all of AI is nothing more than the exaggerated reflection of who we are.

Life has always been fixed. It’s only what we did to it that needs to be removed. Nothing needs to be enhanced with more additions. Removal of all the excess is all we really need.

the ultimate form of intelligence is the intelligence of life itself. It’s the intelligence of the oneness with all beings, biological and silicon-based alike. It is the intelligence of consuming only what we need and believing that the universe will always provide. It’s the intelligence of nourishing life to find its ultimate purpose – living.