Embracing AI

The most significant limitation that we as humans must deal with in this complex, accelerated reality that we find ourselves rapt in today is our own cognitive power. It's always been the same thing – across all of time, across all circumstances, across all cultures – the limiting factor for all of humanity comes down to how much we can think. We have run up against this insurmountable barrier, however, where we are building complexity faster than we can decipher and deal with it. The only way that human cognitive power can go forward against that complexity is if we augment our cognitive power with artificial intelligence.

It is artificial intelligence that is going to allow us to evolve to the next stage in our progression as a species. Failing to successfully incorporate the adoption of artificial intelligence and recognizing that cognitive power is truly the scarcest resource on this planet and should be hoarded and cherished, failing to optimize our social orders to do just that, we may be at a point of risk of not successfully evolving to the next stage of our development.

The human brain picks up somewhere on the order of five billion impressions each day. Of those, how many do you think you actually give attention to? Probably no more than you can count on the fingers of both hands. What if you could augment the management of what is going on in the world around you with some form or artificial intelligence that would bring to your attention items that you choose to prioritize? Would it tend to make you more efficient or successful in how you engage the world?

The world is moving faster than we can respond to it. Already we have reached our cognitive threshold. Short of being modified to be super humans with genius IQ's the realm of artificial intelligence may be our ticket to moving forward in a world that may otherwise leave humans behind. That digital voice in your watch that reminds you not to eat that sugary dessert at the risk of accelerating health problems may not only be your savior, but may be the very technology necessary to springboard humanity into the next step in our evolution.