I have deep reservations about AI. I think we're in danger, through our endless quest for economic growth as its own end, of coming to devalue & distrust real human intelligence. I think this is already well underway (and has been background present for a long time).
I think we don't even understand what human intelligence is and how it functions. Hence AI is not actually an artificial intelligence (i.e. it is not a new form of intelligence) – it is simulated intelligence. AI is pretty advanced mimicry.
So when we're replacing jobs with AI Agents, we're replacing the real thing with machines which mimic the discarded humans which made them even conceivable (possible: an argument that machines have always done this; starting with animals, then onto humans).
The bigger danger: that the real nature of human intelligence cannot be separated from nature; because we are part of a complex intelligent system which we do not truly understand, but which we have separated ourselves from and placed ourselves on a pedestal above and over.
The danger being that we will degrade humans & humanity as well as nature in our quest for something better than that which we do not even understand, nor have learned to harness, develop, master, and make proper use of.
Mimicry over magic? That is cheap.
I use chatgpt to get summaries of concepts I don't know, and to create code which I will have to fix later for programming languages I don't know yet.
My hypothesis: go for long walks in nature and notice intelligence rise. Notice flow happening all the time. We need the grass and the trees and the birds and the deer. This is part of the intelligent system of life to which we all belong. I don't use chatgpt when I am outdoors. I only use it when I'm stuck inside worry-walls.
