Interesting take, brother. I appreciate how vividly you paint this near-future—it’s immersive and easy to believe.
That said, I think there's something missing in many techno-optimist visions, including this one: an honest reckoning with the core aspects of human nature. As a species, we are wired to move toward pleasure and away from pain, often without deep reflection. We’re also historically drawn to consolidating power—over others, over systems, over narratives.
I love using AI, and I find it as fascinating and useful as you describe. But I also carry a deep unease. Not because I think AI is inherently evil—but because humans often use powerful tools to reinforce hierarchy, suppress others, or escape uncomfortable truths. That part of us hasn’t evolved as quickly as our tech.
We’ve built a kind of mirror that reflects and magnifies only a portion of what makes us human. I worry about what it means when AI stops just being a tool we use and becomes a tool that uses us, the same way that Harari speaks about the cultivation of wheat ending up cultivating us.
I’m not anti-AI. I’m using it, and wildly intrigued. I’m full of questions about where this all leads. I'm nervous for my children. I'm exhausted by trying to keep up.
I hear you! I chose to take the optimistic angle in this piece, but very self-aware this might not be the path the world goes down. Fingers crossed this lifts society up vs. tearing us down.
I can appreciate that. Man I want that future SO much. I think about it daily. My OCD does a number on my head with this stuff and I think about it a lot as a dad with teens who are trying to think about their futures.
What I don't see much from the people who are leading the AI revolution is a fundamentally pro-human-well-being world-view. I see a technology first worldview. As though technology were neutral and will just always lead us to a positive outcome on it's own and sort of override the fundamentally challenging parts of human nature.
Would love to chat about this together sometime :)
Interesting take, brother. I appreciate how vividly you paint this near-future—it’s immersive and easy to believe.
That said, I think there's something missing in many techno-optimist visions, including this one: an honest reckoning with the core aspects of human nature. As a species, we are wired to move toward pleasure and away from pain, often without deep reflection. We’re also historically drawn to consolidating power—over others, over systems, over narratives.
I love using AI, and I find it as fascinating and useful as you describe. But I also carry a deep unease. Not because I think AI is inherently evil—but because humans often use powerful tools to reinforce hierarchy, suppress others, or escape uncomfortable truths. That part of us hasn’t evolved as quickly as our tech.
We’ve built a kind of mirror that reflects and magnifies only a portion of what makes us human. I worry about what it means when AI stops just being a tool we use and becomes a tool that uses us, the same way that Harari speaks about the cultivation of wheat ending up cultivating us.
I’m not anti-AI. I’m using it, and wildly intrigued. I’m full of questions about where this all leads. I'm nervous for my children. I'm exhausted by trying to keep up.
I hear you! I chose to take the optimistic angle in this piece, but very self-aware this might not be the path the world goes down. Fingers crossed this lifts society up vs. tearing us down.
I can appreciate that. Man I want that future SO much. I think about it daily. My OCD does a number on my head with this stuff and I think about it a lot as a dad with teens who are trying to think about their futures.
What I don't see much from the people who are leading the AI revolution is a fundamentally pro-human-well-being world-view. I see a technology first worldview. As though technology were neutral and will just always lead us to a positive outcome on it's own and sort of override the fundamentally challenging parts of human nature.
Would love to chat about this together sometime :)
Nice to see you writing bro. Keep it up.