As I drive from Moab to Zion to the Grand Canyon, the story writ large across all of these breathtaking vistas is the visible record of erosion. It’s clear that this area once was filled by an ocean, at other times was a desert, and still other times had a river running through it. The erosion is graphically represented in beautiful lines and coloration of the rock layers throughout history.
One concept that arose frequently at STRAT 2024 was the erosion of human capabilities as we rely more and more on AI. Of course it’s just beginning, so it’s not clear from this early stage that one day humans will lose the ability to see using our own eyes vs. enhanced computer vision with recording capabilities. But on a smaller scale, the ability to find your way to destinations without GPS, or how to write a letter, or how to do research on a topic… and myriad other activities that will be augmented or replaced by AI. This is an implicit choice that I think the “AI Humanifesto,” our community-authored onesheet on Human Rights in the Age of AI, should make explicit. We should decide which skills we will allow to atrophy, and which skills we will keep and possibly improve with the use of AI.
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