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TAKEAWAYS: Survival Through Learning: Life is fraught with dangers, but human survival and progress are driven by our ability to learn and adapt to threats. From childhood to adulthood, we develop skills and knowledge to navigate the perils of existence, from crossing a street safely to handling complex challenges like fires on ships. Adaptation and Expertise: Adaptation is a vital aspect of learning. Whether recognizing a threat, drawing from past experiences, or avoiding unknown dangers, humans become experts through repeated exposure and practice. Mastery often requires thousands of hours of dedicated effort. The Role of Teaching: Effective teaching plays a crucial role in learning. While preprogrammed demonstrations have their place, a responsive teacher who observes, guides and tests comprehension can help individuals overcome challenges and make meaningful changes in their understanding and skills. In practically every life, there is an instance where a person experiences a life-threatening circumstance and can extricate themselves from the jaws of death somehow. When young and inexperienced, the threat can be explained by a caregiver, monitor, or bystander to expose the danger's lethal nature and avoid it in the future. A mature person can recognize the threat and make tactical moves to prevent death or serious injury. Adapting to recognize and avoid serious threats is a matter of exposure to the process and consequences of living life, WHICH IS DANGEROUS, and learning tactics to prevent or avoid these consequences. We all learn to look both ways when crossing a street and do it subconsciously to avoid getting run over. General Patton told his troops: I do not want you to die for your country; I want you to make the enemy die for his country, and so they were trained. I was at the head of a large fire hose with a fogging sprayer head, with 14 men behind me, to go into the engine room of an LST and put out an oil fire in the bilges, which was raging. I was told what to do, and we went down the ladders; I had the sprayer head moving constantly to cool the oil, keep the flames at bay, set the handle for the finest spray to exclude as much oxygen as possible, and be wary of secondary igniting. Thirty minutes later, the fire was out at the U.S. Naval Fire Fighting School in Bayonne, New Jersey, as guest trainees from a ship’s officer training academy. We all coughed up black stuff for four weeks. 5 years later, on a freighter in the Chesapeake Bay, a fuel line broke, and the fire went all over, and 20 minutes later, we were all good and starting to make repairs, which took 30 hours because I had to produce parts that were not on hand. We drifted in the meantime. Adaptation is the learning process and the conscious awareness of being careful and judicious in navigating the perils of being alive. The first instance of threat is doubt, then coming to grasp the nature of the threat, and if there is previous experience, not even good experience, comes to the fore and action is possible. If there is no experience, avoidance is a good move. All this can happen in seconds. Repeated driving over time makes almost all of us experts in driving a vehicle, avoiding accidents and objects in defensive driving skills. The most important skill of a chef is knife skills, all razor-sharp being the safest, and being able to prep, shape, portion, separate, and fashion artistic elements to a presentation. It takes time and attention to detail to become an expert at a skill, and some activities require the 10,000-hour threshold for master or expert competence, about five years. The learning process is instilled from birth with help from parents and close social people to show, explain, demonstrate, trial and error, supervised attempts, and “coaching” to develop skills. It has been said that “Learning is a painful process” because of the timidity and sometimes unwillingness to change or add routines to one’s repertoire. The survival instinct we are born with matures with us as we get older by acquiring the knowledge and then the skills for self-preservation through learning what to do, not in all cases, but those that are part of our milieu. Someone came along and grasped the unknown and dangerous quality of life on earth by human beings and formulated the idea of selling insurance to compensate for damage, death, or disability because of what my first insurance agent constantly repeated, “God forbid!!” that something happens. What comes to mind, for me, is that the teaching process where the teacher is attentive and responding to the level of competence reached, or not, in the act of learning, is not possible with a rote, preprogrammed demonstration, whereas a teacher observing and testing the comprehension gained can overcome hurdles in the challenges to change a mind.

TAKEAWAYS: The Evolution of Language: Klaus highlights the natural evolution of language, stemming from the basic human need to communicate desires and needs. From primitive gestures to the development of complex speech, language has served as a crucial tool for conveying intent and sharing experiences. The Role of Sharing and Cooperation: Klaus underscores the significance of sharing and cooperation in human development. Whether driven by parental instincts or socialization, giving has played a vital role in facilitating group survival and enhancing societal bonds. Importance of Sourcing and Memorializing: Klaus emphasizes the value of sourcing information and memorializing sources within a group. This practice contributes to knowledge accumulation and helps shape cultural identity, language, and behavioral norms. While artificial intelligence excels at perfect execution, it lacks the imperfections that make human communication and creativity unique. Based only on my own experience, the use of language evolved from the basic human need or want to share anything. Pointing fingers at someone else, indicating a chunk of meat, that piece of meat I want, and when no reply or other response is forthcoming, I grunt, then grunt differently as a plea for it, and maybe there is recognition on the other party that I want it, and a decision point is reached. Sound, motion, inflection, sight, and emotion are expressed in pointing, mimicking, and using sound variation, all attempts to define the neediness or greediness of myself. A baby will scream for food and shout, which are all in the speech interference zone of recognizable speech, to get the attention of anybody, preferably the mother, to feed from her breast. It is part of being human that a baby’s cries are almost impossible to ignore no matter the circumstances and to help somehow. To give is the other side of the coin, to not want to see or hear another person suffer or be without something you have. It is part of the mother-child connection, or more developed as a parental gesture, being part of the socialization of related people all sharing food and comfort to help each other be functionally available in the now or some future. Giving may alleviate some survival threats by allowing a group effort rather than just the individual acting independently. The available physical means of communicating need and generosity are finger-pointing, making sounds to bring attention to, mimicking, sniffing, eating gestures, rubbing the stomach, and others. The refinement of these gestures, accompanied by sounds, may eventually get some to offer a geophony, a sound from nature to help identify what this came from. The agreement, through continued use or by an authority figure memorializing a word for an object or living thing by a name, gives rise to an eventual vocabulary; in time, the organizing of the words into thoughts gave rise to a syntax for mutual use and understanding of the ideas as a permanence we identify as speech. The small bands of people of a particular species, location, and surroundings, as well as developing speech patterns, will eventually, over time, begin the organizing of a language. The language would help establish permanence in thought and intent through words and develop a culture of similar understanding and format to accomplish and create a recognizable pattern of cooperation. An essential facet of language development and its use is sourcing the information meant to inform, enhance, develop, and add to a group’s knowledge of its place and functions in the life experiment. Memorializing sources refers to a socially acceptable influence in the group that creates and professes the powers of knowledge to add to or change behavior to benefit the group more generally or specifically. The ability to demand conformance through political demand, discipline, or religious dogma then matures a group’s identity in lineage, language, cultural rituals, and routines. That is a long surmise since the facts are lost in the fog of time. Yet, the need to share is a way to gain status, add to a collection of previous similar information, tempt others to give their own experience and develop an understanding of the substance at hand to know from information from others. Acknowledging the source of the data is establishing the place, person, or event that gave rise to the original set of facts, providing credit, memorializing the basis for future developments, and “praising” the source to continue to offer more for the future understanding of all. The printing press was monumental in this regard, using a recognized language to let millions hear or read the thoughts of previous generations and current practitioners. Sharing without losing the “imprimatur” of origin and continuing ownership of the content maintains the link between the authorship and the content as from a human source and in its imperfections that identify the fragile and tenuous grasp of reality experienced by us all. A.I. is perfect in delineating prescribed output from imperfect input, perhaps hidden to the casual observer, but still subject by intent as “garbage in, garbage out.” The charm of imperfection, rather than the numbing execution of perfect slavishness, is the key to human inventiveness rather than copycat repetition of incompatible emoting all. It is only a common language that allows one person to know what another person intends before acting. A.I. has to be told what to do, not think through a cascade of other possibilities, shaping a result not tried before. Or does it?

TAKEAWAYS: Invisible AI Influence: AI has become deeply ingrained in our lives, with much of its impact going unnoticed by the average person. Its subtle influence affects our thinking, attitudes, decisions, and information consumption, often without awareness. Shift in Decision-Making: AI-driven influences are reshaping our choices, eroding the human component of our judgment, and swaying our commitments towards pre-programmed alternatives. This shift raises questions about the authenticity of our decisions. Altered Reality for Future Generations: The growing prevalence of AI-driven information sources may lead future generations to grow up in an altered reality, where political agendas and deception could shape their beliefs more than the recorded stability of human history. This raises concerns about the potential misinformation for future generations. It is difficult to be sanguine about the saturation rate of A.I. in our daily lives, probably 95% of which is unknown and indecipherable to the ordinary citizen. Its insidious influences are subtle and innocuous to the point that the change in thinking, attitude, direction, decision choices, and informing has already crept into the body politic and daily information dissemination. It devalues the former human component of our judgment and assigns our former decisions to a pre-programmed alternative to sway our commitments. In effect, we are living in a world now where our choices are defined by someone else’s influences and not the factual reality of our own hurly-burly life we lead with our minds. “He/she is to blame” is now subject to the question, “…was that me? I think not !!”. Circumstantial evidence is now suspect. If you have first-hand knowledge, it must be the human original, not the processed original, to assign provenance. The difficulties are legion, and the problems are primarily incongruous with established reality. Future generations will be nurtured in an alternate reality that will quietly misinform them, as their sources deceive them, to believe the political needs of the moment and not the recorded stability of human folly.

TAKEAWAYS: The human condition is characterized by various variations in intelligence, behavior, and decision-making, often represented by the Gaussian curve and measured through IQ tests. Stories and narratives transmit knowledge and experiences across generations, helping individuals learn from others' challenges and successes. Human decision-making is influenced by emotional states, leading to individuality in character and behavior, whereas Artificial Intelligence lacks emotions and often relies on statistical probabilities, creating a distinction in how they approach problem-solving and decision-making. The human condition, throughout history, has been fraught with the inaccuracy of the human mind and its continuing battle to understand its surroundings and purpose. The variation of this condition yields itself easily to the Gaussian curve and is memorialized as the IQ variation described on IQ tests like the Wechsler. The variation in the human condition shown in thought, word, and deed is the substance that provides the variation that interests some of us to learn about differences and better ways to deal with the challenges of nature and each other. How they deal with these daily challenges or once-in-a-lifetime traumas captures the mind to collect ways to handle our affairs better. Storytelling is a way of transmitting much information to give another a real-life example of how it was done. Our stories, after all, are all we have, captured in folklore, written, video, audio, visual art, music, and dance, that describe our various paths through life. The variation of choices and decisions, driven by our emotional states at the time, provides the individuality in character and behavior with which we perceive motive and outcomes to help maintain our safety, health, projects, and goals. These emotional states are not present in Artificial Intelligence and provide a vacuum of dead output bereft of the trembling impetus of doubt since the future is unknown. Oh yes, a lot can be predicted based on statistical probability. However, it is like humans to be doubtful, to still look for an opening for a better method and better outcome before accepting a fait accompli.

TAKEAWAYS: AI and the Anti-Babel Phenomenon: The proliferation of AI technology, particularly large language models, is akin to an "anti-Babel" scenario where various silos of AI development come together under a common language. In contrast to the Babel story, where languages were confused and people scattered, AI is unifying technology under a shared language, potentially leading to unprecedented advancements. The Significance of Language in Religion: Language plays a central role in understanding the divine across various religious traditions. The act of God creating the universe through speech underscores the importance of language in religious narratives. In Judeo-Christianity, the Bible is often called "The Word of God," emphasizing the divine connection to language and communication. The enigma of the Word (LOGOS): The opening passage in the fourth gospel, "In the beginning, the Word (LOGOS) was with God, and the LOGOS was God. Then the Word became a man and dwelt among us," highlights the mystique surrounding language in religious contexts. The concept of LOGOS as both divine and incarnate suggests a profound relationship between language and spirituality. TO KLAUS LUEHNING: One of my most interesting recent thoughts involves a story you may be familiar with. Babel. As the story goes, people had learned to speak one common language and had developed brick technology (no more stacking odd-shaped rocks). It is said they were attempting to build a tower to the sky. This disturbed the deity. And he went down in person to check it out personally. This God did not like what he saw. And he “confused the languages” so that only some groups could understand others. They were then forced to get together by common languages and went their separate ways with the people with whom they could communicate naturally. Hence, the scattering of the nations. The interest to me in this story is manifold. But when I heard Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin (two leaders in AI ethics) talking about the rapid proliferation of AI technology as a result of “all these silos of AI development finally getting together in large language models, essentially “all speaking the same language,” I thought, Wow. This is anti-Babel. Based on a common language, things are coming together again— the LLM, Large Language Model. I am not passing judgment on this; I am just noticing it. Also interesting, since we are talking about God and language, it is said that God created the universe by speaking. The creation of the cosmos, purportedly, becomes a speech event. The God of the descendants of Isaac (Judeo-Christianity) and the God of the descendants of Ishmael (Islam) is a god who is very interested in language. People call the Bible "The Word of God." And in the fourth gospel, this very curious passage opens the account. No one knows what it means, “In the beginning, the Word (LOGOS) was with God, and the LOGOS was God. Then the Word became a man and dwelt among us.” It seems the Judeo-Christian God is a god who deals in language.

TAKEAWAYS: The Unchanging Nature of Truth: Truth is a timeless and universal concept that remains constant regardless of circumstances or beliefs. The Role of Faith in Religion: Faith plays a crucial role in religion, as it often involves believing in the unprovable and accepting the inexplicable as true. The Interplay Between Faith and Science: The tension between faith and science arises from the contrast between moral convictions and the ever-evolving understanding of the chaotic universe through scientific exploration. The truth is a fact, a recognition or definition that lasts no matter when, where, why, what, or who over time. The Pythagorean theorem is a fact known to every school child, no matter where, who, why, what, or when, in every language and culture, a universal truth that always gives the same result. This is true for all of established science. All science is based on facts, all things that can be measured, whether the diameter of a hydrogen molecule, the weight of the earth, the speed of light, the compressive strength of concrete, or a spoonful of sugar for a cookie. Some things can be close to facts, like assumptions, opinions, and insightful surmises. All allude to something that may be repetitive, a measurable guesstimate, close enough to accept as indisputable so that you can risk a word, a thought, or an action, a commitment to hope for the best. That is not truth but a guess, hopefully, a good guess. Probability theory and its use in statistics can measure the degree of accuracy, within limits, of an assumption based on sampling the natural world and not necessarily having to count and measure everything that applies. Statistics rules our lives in almost all things, from election polling to the efficacy of prescription drugs, to traffic control, to distribution of goods and services, to target you for unwanted ads. It is also used in sub-atomic physics, where the certainty of anything is only a best guess, that is, quantum theory. Where there is no proof, there is fantasy, myth, legend, make-believe, and storytelling, a definition or explanation that alludes to the reality experienced and sets up an outside source, power, or logic to enforce belief or acceptance as true. That conviction, if accepted, is termed faith. Faith in something is believing it to be true when there is no tangible evidence of it being real. Faith is necessary in religion because the tenets of most, if not all, religions are based on experiences that are inexplicable by any of the norms of dealing with reality. Ultimate faith is the utmost conviction that unreal events, states of being, or qualities of objects are actual. However, we still need the concept of doubt of that veracity to follow ritual and routine to continually re-establish the conviction because of the diverting ability of reality. Any lingering doubt will engender dire consequences post-mortem, going to hell or a stopover in purgatory, which is very convenient since no proof is available other than the threat in dogma. Not dealing with the truth, or as close to the truth as managed due to time, location, expense, opportunity, or knowledge, can lead to effort(s) that result in an inaccurate, inapplicable, unsatisfactory, dangerous, or lethal outcome. Persons of faith, committed to a dogma, are usually committed to a moral grasp of how to live the “good life,” as championed by Socrates, Plato, and the moral philosophers, and provide standards adopted as a goal in achieving a valuable life experience. The conflicts with science appear to be the “crossing “ of borders between the moral ascendancy of personal conduct and the grasp of our existence in an evolving flow of energy and elemental coherence of atoms in our universe, which is chaotic.

TAKEAWAYS: Ownership traditionally involves indicating an object's source and responsibility. AI could help verify and preserve an object's history and source. Changes in history and geography can complicate researching an object's origin. A thought. Personalized ownership has long been a tradition to announce, inform, convey, and identify who or what agency the attendant article was made by, owned (legally), associated with, has responsibility for, or is legally obligated to ensure its safety and use. A statement of authorship in a simple legal form or an identifying mark easily interpreted as a source could continue a long history of assigning the true sourcing and perhaps by whom. In the world of AI, this required the sourcing of natural means or computerized means that could define the object's intrinsic value in the presence of validated sourcing. As an example, I was gifted a wall-hanging brass candelabra. Its uniqueness was assigned only by a stamp of authenticity as to its source, a jeweler in the City of Danzig about 100 years ago in the Free State of Danzig, which no longer exists. The city's name changed to Gdansk, was behind the “Iron Curtain” from 1917 till 1990. I was born in 1940 in a seaside resort called Zoppot, 15 miles away, now Sopot, and has a history and provenance that is somewhat easy to research. Geoffrey Hinton, "The Godfather" of AI, recently resigned from GOOGLE.

TAKEAWAY: The term “artificial intelligence” appears to be an oxymoron, and the adjective points to its cobbled-up essence rather than intelligence as a natural function of nature. The term “artificial intelligence” appears to be an oxymoron, and the adjective points to its cobbled-up essence rather than intelligence as a natural function of nature. Being artificial, is it a compendium of existing ideas, or is it a structure based on assimilating noun identifiers to link some structured language identifiable words and phrases into a dialogue to satisfy specific goals? A recent Republican campaign ad for Trump was AI-generated and seemed awkward, yet specifically pointed to continuing false premises. In ordering a set of ethics for the use of AI to satisfy specific goals, the ethic should be applied to the definition of--and ultimate use of--the exercise before it is applied.

TAKEAWAYS: Truth is the foundation of understanding and cooperation in society, serving as a common reference point. Intentional or unintentional deception erodes trust and can lead to harmful consequences. Misinformation and lies can distort reality and undermine the societal fabric built on trust and shared facts, particularly when propagated by AI or individuals. Truth exists.Lies are intentional.​Alternative facts are false. (We have Kellyanne Conway to thank for the oxymoron).​The world works based on agreeing on what are facts.​Conflict ensues when two or more people cannot agree and not even agree to disagree.​Deception of humankind can be intentional and unintentional. It can be so subtle to be missed and massive to create tragedy, mayhem, and destruction. It is selfish and self-serving and achieved by manipulation to divert from the truth of it. AI that is not "certified" to be represented as close to the best truth available or currently accepted achieves its aims through deception. This diversion from reality creates an alternate reality known best by its purveyors and only revealed enough to capture someone on faith alone that it is real. It achieves saliency through massive repetition, constant exposure, and regular rituals and routines to concretize its potency. Any deviations invite ridicule and threat of expulsion from the safety of group effort. Deception of the machine type writ large is purely intentional since the original purpose is to follow a set number of protocols or inherent instructions to a definite result, each time without variation and tolerances within quality control standards. Deception would be a "virus" or other disturbance that "ruins" the output unusable, wasting time and materials, upsetting logistics downstream, and money wasted. Sabotage.​Misinformation, misapprehension, lies, and mistruths are always dangerous since they modify expectations and destroy faith in relying on a system of truthful conclusions; in a word, they destroy reality. If you will pardon me, my mother railed against me to always tell her the truth because it is the only way she can protect me in the real world, and she has been there longer than I have been. Unfortunately, purveyors of AI misinformation are performing an ego trip of conspiracy theories given as facts while relying on their world of consistency, reliability, and predictability to transmit their lies. In effect, they are hypocrites of their own volition.

TAKEAWAYS: CRISPR technology presents significant potential for altering human genetics, sparking ethical debates. While some nations restrict its use to viable embryos, global regulations remain inconsistent, raising questions about the ethical limits of genetic enhancement. China is prominent in genetic editing and AI research, challenging ethical boundaries. Their position offers useful insights into enforcing ethics in innovative fields, with implications for broader AI applications. In a casual review of the genetic editing controversy, some countries agree to limit the practice to viable embryos and not to reproductive aspects of a person’s genome. Yet, CRISPR, the editing technique that won the Nobel Prize to Doudna and Carpentier in Chemistry, has a wealth of possibilities tied to [styles consisting of images/beings with] altered human capacities. The fledgling cooperation appears to be worldwide except for styles of government where the first instance of value created will rise to the country’s leadership. A singular exception in authoritarian rule appears to be China. Rules, regulations, policies, bans, punishments, sanctions, and disciplinary and countering strictures seem difficult to secure and enforce. If attained, some ethics battles and results may be of heuristic value to acquire a framework for using AI. And, of course, the use of AI with CRISPR as a definition, target, guide, or logic for acceptance.

TAKEAWAY: The concept of ownership and assigning credit for creative work becomes challenging when algorithms use vast knowledge sources to generate content. While algorithms can produce considerable results, true learning involves retaining and synthesizing facts into a deeper understanding of the world. Einstein's Theory of Relativity, expressed through a simple algebraic equation, is a testament to human creativity and insight, raising questions about whether algorithms can achieve similar breakthroughs. Maintaining the possession of thought as a factor of ownership and assigning relevant and first instances of discovery/connivance, no matter its usefulness challenges the idea of copyright and patentability when devised by an algorithm using all the world’s knowledge as a source. If the algorithm is owned, then a random search for a specific result couched in language and graphics can result in a cascade of results about anything. Learning is a retention in memory available as a fact(s) to synthesize into new awareness to understand the world. Einstein devised the Theory of Relativity into a simple algebra equation yet overarching in all mankind’s activities. Can an algorithm do that?

TAKEAWAYS: The Definition of "Human" and "AI" Requires Clarification: There's a need for a more precise and comprehensive definition of what constitutes "human" and "AI" to avoid ambiguity and ensure clear boundaries in various contexts. Self-Disclosure of AI Use in Authorship: Authors should consider implementing a sub-heading system to indicate the extent of AI usage in their works. This approach helps readers understand the role of AI in generating content and promotes transparency. Certification and Collaboration in Creative Writing: Exploring the possibility of certifying authors based on the extent of AI involvement in their work could be a valuable addition to the creative process. Authors may benefit from disclosing the percentage of AI contribution, leading to potential new categories of co-authored or AI-assisted works. The challenge of copyright in the age of AI-generated content should also be addressed systematically. I have a vague feeling that the definition of “human” and “AI” generated is too loose, and the suggested boundaries are incompletely defined. The casual use of AI, spell check, grammar, and the like could be identified as a sub-heading indicating the amount of AI used as part of the authorship self-disclosure. I used italics when quoting my mother’s memoirs in the opening chapters of my autobiography and indicated the device in the opening pages, for example. The self-disclosure aspect is a discipline that works for some with a value system that will survive the tempting word, phrase, or explanation used without revealing the same. As an example, I am a Certified International Foodservice Executive, card-carrying, sworn to uphold the highest standards of conduct in the execution of any work, consultation, or active participation in any activity in food service worldwide. It took me eight years to be certified. Losing it means I would be ostracized by the industry when someone checks. If creative writing is partially AI, some may be receptive to a percentage that qualifies for AI as an addition to the creative process, e.g., 25% AI. This part is represented by spelling, grammar, Chat GPT, etc. The forgoing is then “considered” whole to the author, and a higher percentage means it is a collaboration with AI (Co-author ? ) or not. Can a person be certified as an original author? Given the world’s population, can anyone create a thought memorialized in a script? Like music being copywritten, the recent challenge seems clumsy and overly fastidious. Yet, it exists. I recently gave my Addiction lectures to someone to use as a launching point at a conference; my first question was, are they copyrighted? They were not. My autobiography is, by the simple act of publishing (?). Subscribing to an ethic in writing and collecting and managing such a compilation seems monstrous, yet it is done in some activities.

TAKEAWAY: AI's ability to create unbreakable associations and connections can make it challenging for humans to compete, raising questions about the feasibility of such competition. There is a concern that AI's self-correcting and innovative nature could lead to a machine-dependent reality without adequately analyzing the consequences for human life. The vast amount of human-recorded data available to AI may generate fiction or conclusions that are unrelated to reality, leading to misinterpretation or misuse. Taking the fact that human beings are imperfect in mind, body, and soul, and susceptible to the protoplasmic assaults by bacteria, viruses, and accidents, and can the perfection of inviolate associations and links created by a machine, yet modified by accumulating and integrating new links, how could humans even think to compete with AI? as long as it is plugged in and the batteries charged. And, wouldn’t a self-correcting and innovative AI get on the wrong track creating a machine-dependent reality without analyzing the results or conclusions it is developing as suitable to human “life”? It may use all the information recorded by humans, but can it not write a fiction unrelated to the reality that could be misinterpreted or misused as a “big lie” or “alternative fact” without identifying its spurious application?

TAKEAWAY: AI's widespread use diminishes the recognition of individual contributions to our civilization's knowledge and functioning. As AI relies on accumulated human knowledge, it's crucial to acknowledge the countless efforts that have shaped our modern world. This raises the question of how we can support those who can't compete with AI, ensuring they have access to basic living standards. The consuming application of AI in all aspects of modern life pushes aside the contributions-- both past and present, made to the functions of our civilization(s)--by individuals as a used tissue. The source material for AI is the fount of knowledge left behind by the millions of minds that have created the knowledge of how to assimilate, collect source materials, and make the entire scope of those who have lived on planet Earth as we do.​ The comfort, convenience, utility, and transference of people, things, ideas, and information today is the result of innumerable decades of effort, wherein the individual, no matter how insignificant a contribution, was paid or acknowledged to maintain a functioning lifestyle. Eliminating the individual for AI, whose forecast contributions to a majority of human activities will render them forfeit, evokes the question: How can we provide the minimum living standards to those who cannot compete with electronically automated synthesized thought from the recorded human experience?

TAKEAWAYS: Human intuition is vital for generating unique and genius-level output, distinguishing it from electronically assimilated information. Our understanding of reality is shaped by accumulated experience and shared knowledge, but humans tend to bend new information to fit their existing paradigms, sometimes leading to myths and misconceptions. It's essential to differentiate between human and electronically manipulated activity within the total recorded human experience. While humans created AI, defining and separating human contributions from AI-assisted activities is crucial to preserving human agency. An example from the past illustrates the power of human creativity and intuition. The speaker developed a successful counseling program for anorexia nervosa by focusing on restoring hormonal cycles rather than traditional dietary approaches, highlighting the value of innovative thinking and unique human contributions to problem-solving. The question of assigning an ethic to the interface between human thinking and using the entire recorded electronic history of mankind may be the idea that human intuition, rather than electronically developed assimilation, is the difference in capacity for specific output that we call genius. I am reminded that Aristotle said the “real” reality is always before us. So that we do not discover nature’s secrets, we finally, with accumulated experience shared, begin to grasp how nature does its thing. And, to punch through our natural defenses in coping with something new, we bend reality towards our previously acquired paranoia, mindset, misconceptions, experience, and convictions. What results is an easier way of comprehending the “new” but can create myth, legend, fairy tales, religion, propaganda, and lies to ease the pain and discomfort with accepting the “new’. We may look but not see; we may listen but not hear. The specific contribution made by human beings to allow the total of recorded human experience to be manipulated may need a definition that separates human activity from manipulated electronic activity. Humans created AI, just as we created an iron lung to keep humans breathing when their system fails. But, yes, an AI-assisted refrigerator can produce a shopping list of expendables used up (missing) and print it every five days by remote transmission to your digital printer. Great, except my diet and cooking variables would be challenging to keep up to date. (Yeah, I know, re-boot). A personal example, if I may. Around 2000, I was working on my doctorate in Counseling Psychology, and it was severely suggested that I start working on my dissertation subject. My advisor was kindly ruthless. So I took on anorexia nervosa. Karen Carpenter recently succumbed to the disease, and I saw nothing in the offing to help. Not even Hilde Bruch, a psychiatrist at the time. Not being a medical practitioner, no drugs were available to me, but I read and read and nearly died in the stacks looking for stuff, this before computers and good search engines and all that. I realized that anorexics lose over 12% of their body fat, and their menstrual cycles stop amenorrhea. When they eat enough, their cycles reappear—a natural signal between healthy and unhealthy. I devised a counseling program that never discussed food, utensils, recipes, shopping, cooking, kitchens, food preparation, fruit, vegetables, fish, meat, cooking shows, diets, portioning calories, or body shapes. The crux of the focus was: Do you want to be a fully functioning woman to be able to have children, enjoy sex, have regular hormonal cycles, marriage, social and family life, and working career? The study I ran proved that 83% started their cycles before ten weeks of one-to-one therapy once a week. Each had their clock and proof when they were falling behind and took appropriate diet strategies to get back on track. Three of the first clients I could contact were still successful five years later. Hhmmmm, was I the first to think of this? It was too radical for the time (more than 40 years ago), and I moved on to other things.