The most plausible bad outcome of AI (or AGI) is not the rise of Skynet.

It is humans quietly outsourcing our intelligence to AI and we eventually lose it.

“Could we be the generation with the highest intelligence?”

This question was raised at an event, and it’s been on my mind ever since.

Why does AI, and especially AGI, raise so much concern as a technology?

After all, humanity has always advanced by developing and leveraging technologies. That ability to extend ourselves has been our advantage.

However, each time we invented and adapted new technology, we also let go of certain human capabilities:

→ Machines replaced our muscle strength. → Calculators replaced mental arithmetic. → GPS replaced our sense of navigation.

Those trade-offs were acceptable.

But intelligence is different.

It has been the foundation of our progress, the very thing that enabled us to create technology in the first place.

If we start outsourcing intelligence itself, we risk losing the very driver of our future. It could mark the beginning of humanity’s decline.

It is easy to say that as humans, we can now outsource low-level thinking and mundane tasks, so that we can do more higher-order thinking.

But reality could be very different. No one knows how this will play out.

We’ll need new ways to cultivate and preserve our minds.

One thought I’ve had is this: Maybe in the future, we’ll need “brain fitness centres”. Like the way we now have gyms to train and preserve our physical strength. We need spaces to keep our minds sharp, resilient, and creative.

Instead of fearing decline, we could build a future where human intelligence and artificial intelligence grow stronger together.

What do you think? Are we at risk of becoming the generation that peaked in human intelligence, or will we find new ways to evolve and thrive alongside AI?

Do you think we will reach a point where “brain fitness centre” becomes a business like gym?

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