In my discussions with a person who is very devout to their new age spirituality and related “self-development”, I was told that AI will “raise human consciousness” and “awaken humanity’s consciousness to a new level”. I learned about a platform called Mind Valley(?) where they have AI summits about leveraging AI and creating AI coaches for self-development and coaching (in the self-development/spiritual context). In their definition, accepting spirit and the new age beliefs is being awaken and rises one to a new conscious level. This, by the way, is the sort that believes in manifesting, “The Secret”, everything that happens is “for the greater good of all concerned”, and everything is made out of love. I come from tech and science and have a reasonable understanding of of LLMs work. I find their claims to be pretty out there, much like my opinion about rest of the new age spirituality belief system to be rather baseless. I have no doubt that it helps many, but it’s not for me. I know AI is used for “processing” feelings, coaching, and therapy and just hope that they don’t do more harm than help. So what about it? You AI gurus and geeks, do you think that AI will do all that and more, that it’s somehow “divine” timing that spirit is using AI to awaken more humans? submitted by /u/snovvman
Originally posted by u/snovvman on r/ArtificialInteligence
I think AI will do the opposite. It will make us dumber and use our brains less at least in the short term.
When you can ask AI to do something for you, you rarely choose the hard road to do it yourself or get it to teach you to do it yourself.
My golden rule in life - humans are fundamentally lazy. Or maybe lazy is not the right word, but people take the easy road over the hard road every time. Anywhere there is a paved long way around or a little cut through the trees, you’ll see a beaten path through the trees.
There are of course exceptions to this rule like all rules, but if there is an easy path (AI does it for you) most people will take it over the harder path (AI teaches you).
I know this might not be what was meant by enlightened here, but this is my interpretation of what general AI use will mean.