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The Decade Ahead: AI’s Ascent Amid a Slow Decline in Knowledge and Critical Thinking

🤯 Is Humanity Ready for Superintelligent AI? A critical question is explored in a new video: What happens when the most powerful technology in human history emerges as our collective understanding and critical thinking skills are in decline? 🤔

Drawing insights from Leopold Aschenbrenner’s “Situational Awareness” and Carl Sagan’s “The Demon-Haunted World,” this video explores two converging trends:

  1. AI’s Unstoppable Ascent: We’re seeing exponential AI progress, with AGI potentially by 2027 and superintelligence emerging rapidly. This is driving a trillion-dollar industrial mobilization, poised to reshape global power and offer decisive economic and military advantages. 🚀
  2. The Peril of Declining Critical Faculties: Simultaneously, society grapples with widespread scientific illiteracy and a struggle to distinguish fact from pseudoscience. As Carl Sagan warned, losing the ability to “knowledgeably question those in authority” and distinguish “what feels good and what’s true” risks a slide “back into superstition and darkness.” 📉

▶️ The video unpacks the chilling reality of superintelligence in a “demon-haunted world.” Can humanity navigate the profound challenges and opportunities of AGI, especially when confronted by extraordinary power in a society where “ignorance and power” are a “combustible mixture”?



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