Human Competitive Advantage over Super-intelligent AI

As a tech lawyer I have been reflecting about what the human competitive advantage will be over a truly super-intelligent AI that can outthink humans on almost every cognitive dimension: strategy, logic, pattern recognition, data analysis, memory, etc. Tony’s heart-minded gratitude exercise made me think of our human advantage:

💖Purpose and meaning: We create goals that deeply matter to us. As humans we decide which problems are worth solving, based on our own life experiences: suffering, joy, and even our own mortality. AI can model experience but not embody or feel it. An AI simulation of having something to gain or lose is different from actually gaining or losing something.

🫶Human Values and Ethics: When our heart, mind, body, and spirit are aligned, we feel grounded, we can access our emotional intelligence and can follow our intuition or “gut” and act with empathy. This grounding allows us to have “skin in the game” and feel the ethical and moral consequences for a decision and be accountable for it.

💡Creativity and Innovation: Human creativity is boundless. We can imagine the unimaginable, hold paradox, and find new innovative ways of deploying technology to solve old and new problems, create, and enjoy sensorial experiences!

⚠️Therefore, I would invite us to make conscious, intentional choices in how we use AI in the many dimensions of our life; the key strategic implication is not being smarter than super-intelligent AI-enabled technology, but being the one to decide how AI intelligence is used to serve our designed goal, our community and humanity at large.

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