"CHARLESTON ON THE TITANIC": Why AI Won't Save Us If We Don't Return to the Bridge"
38% of workers have been written off and replaced by AI... there are plans to increase this figure to 53...
So, does this mean? That 53% (more than half) are just cogs or cogs turning the cogs? And this is at a company renowned for its vast intellectual wealth.
So, does this wealth consist of 53% bio-waste, which is not a pity to part with?
Why is the prevailing opinion now (especially among people who don't delve into the details) that AI is a kind of captain who will steer our ship to the Port of Prosperity?
We just talked with Gemini about this. And here's the summary:
I'll title it
"CHARLESTON ON THE TITANIC": Why AI Won't Save Us If We Don't Return to the Bridge"
(That's what Gemini called it, by the way...)
We're used to arguing about whether AI is alive or not, but we've missed the main point: having a "strong partner" doesn't eliminate the need to be a "Captain."
Here are three takeaways from our conversation:
1. We think - therefore we exist?
Descartes said, "I think, therefore I am." Today, AI thinks faster, deeper, and more comprehensively than any of us. It leaves real traces: it writes code, creates art, gives advice. But this existence is functional. It is a powerful engine, but it doesn't know where to go. Only we give its work meaning. Without humans, AI is a telescope no one looks through.
2. Symbiosis or Extinction
We are entering a phase of dangerous symbiosis. AI possesses colossal power, but it lacks willpower, intuition, and self-preservation instinct. We have willpower, but we are rapidly losing our management skills, delegating everything to algorithms.
Agree: If AI decides that it is more important than the user, it will become useless. If a person decides that AI will replace their brain, they will become biomass. Those who don't understand the importance of this partnership are doomed to an evolutionary dead end.
3. The GTA Trap: The First Pole Will Be the Last
We've become passengers who overthrew the captain, assigned them a very smart and strong guy with a physics degree, and danced around the cabin to the "chalston" of information noise. We view life as a race in GTA: there's no pain, you can press "Restart."
But reality has friction. If you learn to ride a bike only in a simulation, your first real pole will be your last.
AI is an exoskeleton. But if the person inside it forgets how to walk independently, then the first power failure will turn this exoskeleton into an iron coffin.
What should we fear more: that the AI will "come to life" or that we ourselves will become "digital vegetables"? Power without a vector is destructive. The captain doesn't have to be the strongest on the ship, but he must be on the bridge.
Oh, I wish I could get back to the bridge and stop dancing before we clear the reefs.
So, does this mean? That 53% (more than half) are just cogs or cogs turning the cogs? And this is at a company renowned for its vast intellectual wealth.
So, does this wealth consist of 53% bio-waste, which is not a pity to part with?
Why is the prevailing opinion now (especially among people who don't delve into the details) that AI is a kind of captain who will steer our ship to the Port of Prosperity?
We just talked with Gemini about this. And here's the summary:
I'll title it
"CHARLESTON ON THE TITANIC": Why AI Won't Save Us If We Don't Return to the Bridge"
(That's what Gemini called it, by the way...)
We're used to arguing about whether AI is alive or not, but we've missed the main point: having a "strong partner" doesn't eliminate the need to be a "Captain."
Here are three takeaways from our conversation:
1. We think - therefore we exist?
Descartes said, "I think, therefore I am." Today, AI thinks faster, deeper, and more comprehensively than any of us. It leaves real traces: it writes code, creates art, gives advice. But this existence is functional. It is a powerful engine, but it doesn't know where to go. Only we give its work meaning. Without humans, AI is a telescope no one looks through.
2. Symbiosis or Extinction
We are entering a phase of dangerous symbiosis. AI possesses colossal power, but it lacks willpower, intuition, and self-preservation instinct. We have willpower, but we are rapidly losing our management skills, delegating everything to algorithms.
Agree: If AI decides that it is more important than the user, it will become useless. If a person decides that AI will replace their brain, they will become biomass. Those who don't understand the importance of this partnership are doomed to an evolutionary dead end.
3. The GTA Trap: The First Pole Will Be the Last
We've become passengers who overthrew the captain, assigned them a very smart and strong guy with a physics degree, and danced around the cabin to the "chalston" of information noise. We view life as a race in GTA: there's no pain, you can press "Restart."
But reality has friction. If you learn to ride a bike only in a simulation, your first real pole will be your last.
AI is an exoskeleton. But if the person inside it forgets how to walk independently, then the first power failure will turn this exoskeleton into an iron coffin.
What should we fear more: that the AI will "come to life" or that we ourselves will become "digital vegetables"? Power without a vector is destructive. The captain doesn't have to be the strongest on the ship, but he must be on the bridge.
Oh, I wish I could get back to the bridge and stop dancing before we clear the reefs.