Excellent column, Kartik. One of your best. Thinking about AI this way is exactly what is needed to ensure that AI is and will remain a positive force to enhance and not diminish our humanity. I'm waiting to read your other columns in this series. Thanks for sharing.
Agree with your basic theme of AI increasing the opportunity for more of us to thrive with self awareness. IMHO, a complex “post modern” socio-economic fabric we have created, may be the cause for the need to use AI in the first place- to navigate in everyday life.
Simple, self sufficient societies could still be another way of life for self actualisation. The wise men of the past in the East as you mention epitomised this.
In short a self fulfilling life is a choice- with or without AI
Technologies like AI ought to be earmarked for the pursuit of frontier sciences in institutions and not for mere profit amongst the unknowing by the tech elite; just as military use of AI is already segmented, so should the deployment of AI in society.
Hi Kartik reading this interesting piece much delayed so hope you see it. Certainly nudges further thinking that combines psychology, economy with eastern spiritual ideas. My instinctive response (or perhaps more likely influenced by my work life as a development professional) is a bit of a chicken and egg question - Should humanity first address the currently prevailing inhuman levels of inequalities or is that something we can hope may also evolve with AI? Sorry this will sound cynical but despite India's rich spiritual heritage we have become one of the most unequal of societies
Excellent column, Kartik. One of your best. Thinking about AI this way is exactly what is needed to ensure that AI is and will remain a positive force to enhance and not diminish our humanity. I'm waiting to read your other columns in this series. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for the kind words, Mukul.
Agree with your basic theme of AI increasing the opportunity for more of us to thrive with self awareness. IMHO, a complex “post modern” socio-economic fabric we have created, may be the cause for the need to use AI in the first place- to navigate in everyday life.
Simple, self sufficient societies could still be another way of life for self actualisation. The wise men of the past in the East as you mention epitomised this.
In short a self fulfilling life is a choice- with or without AI
Technologies like AI ought to be earmarked for the pursuit of frontier sciences in institutions and not for mere profit amongst the unknowing by the tech elite; just as military use of AI is already segmented, so should the deployment of AI in society.
Your thoughts are going much deeper than tech,. Kartik.
I admire this.
Keep writing and thinking.
Great framing! Excited for your follow-up posts!
Hi Kartik reading this interesting piece much delayed so hope you see it. Certainly nudges further thinking that combines psychology, economy with eastern spiritual ideas. My instinctive response (or perhaps more likely influenced by my work life as a development professional) is a bit of a chicken and egg question - Should humanity first address the currently prevailing inhuman levels of inequalities or is that something we can hope may also evolve with AI? Sorry this will sound cynical but despite India's rich spiritual heritage we have become one of the most unequal of societies