Anil Seth

The sacrament of the algorithm is most likely an empty dream, delivering not posthuman paradise, but silicon oblivion.

We need a different story.

one in which we're more part of nature, not apart from it, with consciousness more closely tied to living flesh and blood, not to the dead sand of silicon.

AI might claim the prize of intelligence, at least in some ways, but consciousness remains ours to celebrate and to share with other living creatures.

So let's not sell our minds so easily to our machine creations.

If we do, we not only overestimate them, we underestimate ourselves.

Thank you.