Manolis Kellis

And in fact, with the advent of AI, I would say, and these seemingly extremely intelligent systems that sort of can perform tasks that we thought of as extremely intelligent at the blink of an eye, this might democratize

intellectual pursuits.

Instead of just simply wanting the same type of brains that, you know, carry out specific ways of thinking, we can, like, instead of just always only wanting, say, the mathematically extraordinary to go to the same universities, what you could see is simply say, like, who needs that anymore?

You know, we now have AI.

Maybe what we should really be thinking about is the diversity and the power that comes with the diversity

where AI can do the math and then we should be getting a bunch of humans that sort of think extremely differently from each other.

And maybe that's the true cradle of innovation.

Yeah, so I would say humans are the same way.

So basically when you sort of prompt humans to basically, you know, give an environment to act a particular way, they change their own behaviors.

And, you know, the old saying is show me your friends and I'll tell you who you are.

More like, show me your friends and I'll tell you who you'll become.

So it's not necessarily that you choose friends that are like you, but I mean, that's the first step.

But then the second step is that, you know, the kind of behaviors that you find normal in your circles are the behaviors that you'll start espousing.

And that type of meta evolution where every action we take not only shapes our current action and the result of this action, but it also shapes our future actions by shaping the environment

in which their future actions will be taken.

Every time you carry out a particular behavior, it's not just a consequence for today, but it's also a consequence for tomorrow because you're reinforcing that neural pathway.

So in a way, self-discipline is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

And by behaving the way that you want to behave and choosing people that are like you and sort of exhibiting those behaviors that are

sort of desirable, you end up creating that environment as well.

So well before ChatGPT, I would tell my students, just ask, you know, what would Manoli say right now?