We really don’t know

Anyone speaking boldly and certainly about how AI will change our lives, for good or bad, probably hasn’t thought deeply enough about it.

We might be living through the most dramatic shift in human history, and even the founders of today’s leading AI companies can’t say for sure where this is headed.

Reading Yuval Noah Harari’s Homo Deus left me with questions no one can answer with certainty. Even the author didn’t try to. Will AI make us superhuman or make us obsolete, then extinct? Or will it make a few superhuman while leaving the rest behind? Are we building a supermachine that makes us gods? Or breeding a new species that eventually supersedes us?

We really don’t know.

So how should we respond to not knowing, beyond being humble in our predictions?

By learning. By reflecting. By turning all the knowledge we can gather (now more accessible than ever, thanks to the same AI) into wisdom that can guide how we move through a world already being reshaped.