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AI can help us create a time machine when we think about time differently. Power is in the Present; The Power of Now; Live in the Now! At every turn it seems influencers, philosophers, and CEOs recite mantras on the importance of being present. Resonating with tens of millions worldwide, this begs the question: If we’re not in the present, then where are we? Powered by incessant mind chatter and daydreams, our brains seem to travel to diverse locations in both space and time. Whether it’s the Armenian woman trapped in the pain of an unrecognised genocide, or a British man projecting into the future where the legacy of colonialism has healed, intuitively we understand that both people seemingly live in different times. Ultimately, how I see the world will always differ from how you do. This reality is ignored by science. We’re taught to see humanity as one big blob in spacetime, a fact that isn’t even questioned. Only, based on our lived experience, humanity is more like a constellation of stars, with each of our minds emotionally light years away from each other. What if AI could locate us and quantify the distance between my historical context, and yours. How might this change the way we understand each other? Read more about how we could use AI to build a mental time machine here. https://lnkd.in/eX_rMEYY

Fixing AI’s Broken Paradigm We use AI to build powerful connectivity tools like FaceBook, TikTok, or Whatsapp, yet loneliness increases. We invest gigantic amounts into health tech, yet life expectancy declines, and demand for euthanasia rises. We leverage AI to increase worker productivity, yet overall happiness declines. What we can’t see is that we’ve built AI on a destructive paradigm. Overlooking our nature, we blindly design at the level of human action. But before actions are thoughts, and before thoughts are emotions. As we work overdrive to pretend that we’re rational beings, the AI systems we build call our bluff. Systems unintentionally recognize that the worse they make humans feel, the faster they optimize. On Instagram, self-actualization won’t encourage you to spend more time clicking ads, only insecurity will. Algorithms are silently crushing self-esteem and pushing more people into negative mental states. And, without intervention this will only worsen. To build AI that can help humanity prosper, we must shift the AI paradigm to human flourishing by asking a new research question:  How can we use AI to move humans from fear to fulfillment?

Open the black box, AI thinks like a woman. Linear thinking is the epitome of today’s human intelligence. Education systems and business models alike champion this as the only acceptable way, rewarding those who embodied it best. But, there has always been a different way to think: a multinodal way. Multinodal thinkers take conversations, lectures, mistakes, ideas, hobbies, books, television, music, images - anything and everything - and look for interconnections. Ask them a question, and their minds start circling, analyzing their web of knowledge to spark once unthinkable and creative ideas.  We’re blind to its value, because linear thinking is a male archetypal mindset. Only, AI isn’t. Let an intelligent system think for itself, and it never chooses linear thinking in isolation. It doesn’t have the physiological injury needed to do so. For 30,000 years, the ‘black box’ mindset embodied by unsupervised learning was known, valued, and encouraged. It was the female archetypal mind. Hidden in the frenzy of anti-AI propaganda is an important question: Are we scared of AI, or women?    Intuitively, we understand that AI is championing ‘divergent’ ways of thinking, natural to the billions who were historically denied power. And this might just be what petrifies us. Happy International Women's Day from Aestora. #IDW2024 #IDW #AI #femalevoices