AI: Humanity’s Savior or Greatest Threat? 19 Keys Breaks It Down

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3:11Will AI be the destruction of our culture and economic prosperity? Let's talk like it's just me and you, nobody watching. I'll say it could be if they listen to me and you. if they listen to us, but our ability to influence people is in competition, right? With outside entities trying to influence them. So if they take complete direction, I don't want to hear what you think or why you think you shouldn't listen to me. Just listen. Right. And we can help condition them to the pathway that they should take. Then, yeah, it could bring about that. And what I want to do is because there's always going to be the the dark side of it, right?

3:50Absolutely. As a futurist, you have to use your imagination. Our imagination is the most important, powerful tool that we have, right? Because it's what separates us from animals. We can imagine something and then make it so. So if you want to know the future of a people, ask them their collective memories. What are your collective memories? Our collective memories are based in trauma, right? Mostly. So that means that we start thinking that something negative is going to happen and the sentiment around any technology right creates the way that people utilize it or don't utilize it so if you think of it negative then you're going to stay away from it you think that there's something positive then of course then you will use it so i believe that it's up to us to both give people that defense system of knowing how this tech can be used against us but also make sure that we play an offense and we have an idea, right?

4:41And a goal and a vision for how we're going to utilize AI in this time that we have, because I believe that black people are the most resilient people on the planet earth. We've been through all of the different things that you can go through as a people. So in a time that requires mental resilience, we got it, but you need also time. And that's why I don't think time is the number one asset no more. It's cognition because you have all the time in the world, but what is your quality of thought? And so now cognition becomes a KPI in the business where I don't want to just hire somebody based on that capability.

5:14I want to hire you based on your capacity. As a follow-up, what tools and AI are you using that you have not talked about publicly before? Because I know you've been deep in the rabbit hole for the last two years. I don't even, to be honest with you, I don't use that many tools, but the way I use them transforms okay yeah man so everybody's seen a report on mit where they were saying that it gives you cognitive debt and of course that report had you know some triggers in there to see if people was actually reading it utilizing ai or not right but at the bottom of the report it was talking about cognitive debt which is what you take on right the more you're scrolling the more you're using ai without thinking right so i look at like wealth i mean wellness is going to be the new form of wealth and cognition is the new asset class right and so i make sure before i'm using the ai i'm doing the thinking myself yeah because if you don't it decreases your long-term thinking short term it'll increase right your long-term memory but long-term you'll increase your long decrease your long-term memory so my interaction with it is always making sure that it's my first mind that's guiding me and I'm always questioning what it's giving me.

6:31Right. And so I think some people's interaction with it because it's nice and it says exactly what you want to hear. They become delusion as if they're getting real truth. It's almost like a messianic digital figure. A hundred percent. Yeah. And so I make sure that my interactions are, these are my thoughts. I'm challenging the AI. I'm actually doing research and I'm focused on neuro adaptation. I don't I'm not focused on memory no more. Right. I'm focused on understanding. And how do these processes stay? I don't want to feel smart for a moment. But then you ask me what I said last week. I don't remember what the hell I say.

7:05Right. So it's more so about your rituals that you do alongside AI that optimizes. Right. Your cognition and your awareness. So the journaling. Right. The execution. Right. Taking action on the insights that you gain. I think those are the ways to actually optimize because in all of the studies, they will show you that human plus AI has outperformed, right, just human, right, or just AI. An illegal alien from Guatemala charged with raping a child in Massachusetts. An MS-13 gang member from El Salvador accused of murdering a Texas man. A Venezuelan charged with filming and selling child pornography in Michigan.

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