There’s a growing sense especially among younger generations that artificial intelligence will make human beings obsolete.

In this clip from the Beauty at Work podcast, Jaron Lanier explains why that belief is not just mistaken, but morally and culturally dangerous.

Lanier is a pioneering computer scientist, virtual reality pioneer, and one of the most influential critics of how digital technologies shape human life. He has worked in Silicon Valley since its earliest days and is the author of You Are Not a Gadget, Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now, and Who Owns the Future?

In this segment, Lanier argues that treating AI as an independent entity, and imagining a future where machines replace human creativity, leads to despair, loss of purpose, and a collapse of faith in the future. When we forget that AI is built from human collaboration, human data, and human creativity, we begin to lose faith in people themselves.

“Losing faith in the creativity of people,” Lanier says, “has to be some kind of dark sin.”

This conversation challenges the myth of human obsolescence and offers a different way of understanding AI.

You can watch the full video here: https://youtu.be/CS9TFn_NpK4

To learn more about Jaron you can find him at: https://www.jaronlanier.com/ 

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