AI Won't Replace us. It will Merge With Us

So if AI gets smarter than us and it can do all of our jobs and it can run everything without us, why would it keep us around? The Matrix had an answer.

If you remember, what was it? It was batteries, right? Humans were the power supply, since we blocked out the sun.

And that seems like the fear, right? That first we're going to be out of work, and then we're going to be just the fuel or something, and at any rate we're going to be in the way.

And I think that is a fair thing to be scared of.

But the good news is that something like this has happened before.

And it didn't go the way that the matrix went.

Let me show you what happened.

I think the current picture in everyone's heads right now is two sides, right? The stronger one pushes the weaker one out, like survival of the fittest.

I mean, that's how we think about species.

But my question is, is this really the only way capability shows up in a living system, right? Our fractal universe is based on layers of living systems.

Now let's go back about 2 billion years.

So around 2 billion years ago, one cell ended up inside of another cell.

It was swallowed, basically is what we think, and normally that would just be a bad day for the smaller cell.

But this time, the smaller cell did not get digested.

It just kept living inside of the larger cell.

In the book I called this life's most audacious move.

So a bigger cell took in a smaller cell and kept it alive.

Now follow what happened to both of those cells.

So the larger cell that took in the smaller cell got a huge energy surplus.

It got bigger, and it grew a nucleus.

And then from there on, it carried a far bigger genome.

And in fact, every plant, animal, and fungus on the planet comes from that line.

The cell that got swallowed gave up its freedom, right? It can't live on its own anymore out in the wild.

But it got a safe home and food forever.

I call this a marriage where divorce is biochemically impossible.