Engineers say test it and ship it, or shut the lab down. Others imply everything will emerge from a society of agents. Both are partly right, but I think both make a deep error, and it's one that matters for designing Minds for Our Minds.
We are dedicated to unraveling the profound impact of AI on our society, communities, workplaces, and personal lives. To truly grasp this transformation, our approach is rooted in engaging with core concepts such as critical thinking, logical analysis, and the scrutiny of underlying assumptions, principles that are essential in the realm of philosophical inquiry.
We tried using AI to shape a collective manifesto for the future of AI. My takeaway is that AI doesn’t necessarily make this process easier, although I did see moments that it did.
Cognitive sovereignty is conscious, skillful, reversible navigation through the eight roles, including the possibility of assigning AI a role that fundamentally changes who you are.
The biggest impact of AI will be on our minds, on how we understand intelligence and consciousness and infrastructure, more than on any metrics we're currently tracking.
