Brad Jacobs

It's accelerating.

And humans are not evolving as fast as machines, as technology, as software and hardware.

And ultimately, we're going to keep using that technology that we're creating.

Technology is a tool that we're creating.

Just going back to the stone tools I talked about a few minutes ago.

just like fire, just like the wheel, just like the telegraph, just like all the tools that we've invented over the years, this technology that we've been creating is becoming more and more integrated with us.

And we're using it to enhance our senses.

We're using it to enhance our cognitive functioning.

We're using it now to enhance our feelings, our relationships, so many things that AI is generating.

Our writing are now generative AI.

And

His hypothesis was, and still is, that we're merging with technology.

And just as 99.9% of all the species that have ever existed on the planet have gone extinct, humans, we're going to go extinct someday too.

He thinks we're going to go extinct not too long from now.

He thinks we're going to go extinct in the next decades, not the next centuries or millennia.

And he thinks the next species will be a combination of humans and machines, humans and technology, that will be so different that you have to call it another species.

And I don't know about the timing on that, but directionally, it makes a lot of sense.

So the exact opposite of what you would originally think.

I don't say, okay, here's all this technology, how can we use it?

It's the exact reverse.