Articles on AI and The Future of Humanity
Nature built the first neocortex by wiring cells into one thinking system. AI is now doing the same with human minds. The pattern is 500 million years old.
AI is not here to replace your thinking. It's here to connect it. The same shift that moved cells into organisms is now moving human minds into something larger.
AI predicts words. It doesn't reason, know, or understand. The risk isn't smarter machines. It's us getting less practiced at thinking for ourselves.
We say AI is reshaping us. I think we have it backwards. Technology externalises what we want and fear, then shows it back. The mirror is getting sharper.
Cognitive intelligence is being commoditised by AI. That is 10 to 15% of what people bring to work. Here are the human intelligences we never bothered to name.