Salome Agbaroji
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
But the human experience is a very real one that we shouldn't neglect.
The viruses they suffer from are not the zeros and ones in your devices cured by simple software reset.
If only the world had such a button.
We've got our heads so far up in the cloud, we forget that the ground exists.
New prompt, is this modernity?
Marveling at machines that can read and write when currently 700 million adults are illiterate?
New prompt, is this innovation?
Chipped by click workers in dark, dank rooms without proper compensation?
The future we fear is not the sci-fi, cyborg, AI uprising that sets the world aflame.
No, the true dystopia is the today we make.
When humans watch the world burn, still with the power to save it.
And don't.
The work towards a better world is not automated.
No computer could take this job of audacious hope, of unfounded optimism.
We are the unprompted.
In the face of the bleakest calculations, we aspire in a way no algorithm could advise.
And that is what will save us from the abyss.
Solely, we are our saviors.
But just as every hero has their gadgets, technology can be the engine of our altruism.
Every invention is just an extension of your hand.