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"This week, I spoke to two brilliant founders who shared the same concern: What happens to our sense of identity when AI becomes more intelligent, eloquent, and numerous than us?"

This could be a somewhat niche concern. Most of us non-brilliant people already have to deal with not being the smartest or most eloquent intelligence around :)

Half-jokes aside, for perhaps different reasons, I would agree that being intelligent is not what makes us human. To call act inhumane is not to call it stupid ;) At our best, we go out of our way to be kind, we show compassion and empathy and we make sacrifices for no personal gain.

The more time I think about this the more detached I become from any emotions about it and I am no longer sure I need "something that makes me human" but, if you do need that, why not opt for kindness (and the rest of that other stuff I wrote above)? 🙏

With my overly literal hat on.. what makes us human at the moment is a set of behaviours and some cognitive abilities. Oh, we also have some 'deficiencies' like not being able to fly or breath under water (etc). It's not all good. But it has changed over time and will continue to change. Once upon a time, we might have needed to dig a bit deeper to differentiate ourselves from other hominids. In the future, we'll (probably... maybe...) have to dig pretty deep to differentiate ourselves from machines that can (at least appear to) be kind, empathetic, compassionate. Then what? Maybe all we'll be able to say is "look I am human because I have human DNA and I was born from another human". We'll get used to it though :)

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Your writing on AI at the moment is 🔥🔥🔥, keep it coming!

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