AI sleight of hand
I was reading recently about how a big advantage of driverless cars (aside from safety) is how much time it will save humans, who will now be freed up to use their time in traffic differently.
It seems we are finding yet another way to “create” more time that we will simply waste.
Because our problem is not that we don’t have the time. The problem is that we don’t know how to manage ourselves and engage with the world around us such that we spend our time (of which we all have the same amount in a day) the way we really want to. In ways that allow us to thrive, not simply survive.
Instead, when we all become passengers in our own driverless cars, we will likely just doomscroll a bit longer, write a few more emails, take that extra Zoom call…
What if we used that time to take deep breaths and calm our nervous systems? What if we called that friend we miss dearly and haven’t spoken with in far too long? What if we read that book we’ve been looking at longingly on the bedside table?
But no. We won’t. AI and its advancements aren’t designed to grow us as humans, only to reduce the resistance on the road made of our own self-designed quagmires…
If we can’t make better choices for ourselves as we are, AI certainly won’t be able to either.
A little peek into the future…
