Kevin Kelly
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Why you're here?
What do you do that nobody else can do?
Now we're going to ask that at the species level.
What are humans for?
Why are we here?
What are we good for?
What can we do that others can't?
And then we have genetic engineering where we can actually change our own bodies.
And so what is it that we want to become?
And one of the things that AIs are going to force us to answer is because we make these AIs, we train them on humans.
And humans are, on average, sexist and ageist and racist and mean.
And so the AIs are like average humans.
But we say, no, no, no, no.
You have to be better than us.
So what does that look like?
What does a better human look like?
We don't have a good model for that.
We don't have a consensus on that.
And yet we're going to demand that our AIs be better than us.
So that's going to force us in some ways to become better humans ourselves.