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Artificial intelligence, like any tool, reaffirms the difference between utility and humanity.
The impulse is to flee or join: regress to a nostalgic, barbarian state, or merge into a techno-cybernetic future that will dissolve humanity.
when we see ourselves as machines (tools), aligning our goals with their production, we forget that we are uniquely human.
Being displaced by AI drives us to return to ourselves: dismantle our machinic adaptation and reveal what it is to being human.
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The threat of artificial intelligence seems to be the culmination of our dedicated efforts:
We worked extremely hard to make ourselves altogether irrelevant.
This is an extension of competitive, capitalist labor into the digitized world where we labor against ourselves until we are extraneous. We have replaced our enslavement to the cruel master.
Perhaps now free of our servitude to machines/data we can return to being human and caring about human things. But I doubt it.
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Art is a subset of our culture, reacting to new technological innovations, ideas, and politico-historical moments.
To decide to protect art from technology, (such as AI or NFT) is not in the spirit of art, nor the function of art: property (and protection of) is the realm of copyright and commerce.
Arguably, art can never be commerce. Art should react, not sequester.
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My desire pursuit is overly strong: I push routine and health aside to achieve.
The reaction is days of pain-enforced respite.
It is a balancing mechanism: the down time is roughly equivalent to the misdemeanors against the body.
The will forces attrition, and the bodily response is sabotage of goals that sustain the ego.
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We emit capturable data such as writing, but any AI (artificial intelligence) mimicking you is drawing from your emissions, not you.
We speak differently than we write and act differently in various contexts (code-switching).
There is still a tremendous gap between what we emit and who we are, also seen as actions versus intent judged one-dimensionally.
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Without maintenance, things break, and even with care, they fail.
By checking in regularly we can prevent being shocked by catastrophic failure, perhaps even avoid it altogether.
Whether it is your relationships, car, job, or tools: if you spent the time and resources in the past, spend time now as well instead of courting disastrous loss.
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You have to let go.
When we make a mistake or are insulted, we hang onto it, impairing our behavior. Our pride (which can appear as self-loathing or righteousness) causes us to wade into the present moment, swinging for retribution.
Holding onto you tenacious self-harm makes you the victim and converts friends to villains.
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Almost all of our values (and thus ideas) are based around the preeminence of humans: declaring humans as most valuable and worth protecting at any cost.
This is obviously a contradictory bias.
Humans work to displace and victimize ourselves with superior intelligence (artificial intelligence) while destroying the planet we rely on. To protect humans, at any cost, we would 1) not make ourselves obsolete and 2) cease to be a threat to the long-term sustainability and survival of any superior intelligence.
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You can merge with society to fit in and gain solidarity and comfort. But only you can be you, and great innovation comes from the fringes, not the middle.
Vacillating between solitude (singularity) and solidarity (belonging) is a practice we must cultivate.
