AI and Human Development: How Not to Become a Hostage to Technology

Main subjects

AVAlexander VolchekArtificial intelligence and technologyArtificial intelligenceSpiritual development and the spiritual pathAwareness, observation, and perceptionDependency

Main threads of the conversation

• 00:00How to view technological development
• 02:24AI = dark energies?
• 03:42Why study the spiritual world?
• 10:18Does using AI make you part of a “dark” technological world?
• 12:57When technology becomes dependence
• 14:57Can AI narrow our perception?
• 18:44How to choose where to direct your attention

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• 02:42

  I speak there quite actively and passionately about how important it is for people in today's world to understand artificial intelligence.

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• 02:42

  On one hand, you could see me as a geek who has decided to fill the whole world with technology.

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• 03:40

  We sit with a book; at school, I was taught how World War I or World War II began, who ruled whom and where, and what the territories were.

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• 07:25

  Dad, am I understanding this right? A four-star hotel can cost four times as much as a five-star hotel?

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• 08:07

  To have five stars, for example, you need certain facilities.

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• 08:07

  I am not even talking about approaching it as an adult, because adults lack a basic understanding of an enormous number of subjects.

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• 17:22

  Obviously, a person will manage better in a room with the lights off than artificial intelligence, because at the moment, at least, artificial intelligence has to be connected to electricity.

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• 19:13

  So people who are part of a large social environment, or live within a social environment in general, need to know these things.

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• 21:57

  I do not need an hour and a half of information that makes me say, “Mmm, how wonderful, how interesting.”

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• 22:57

  Again, I devote quite a large part of my life to learning about different things.

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