The Escape Plan Nobody Told You About, Episode 6
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Jill Lepore, Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer, just described the men who built the AI revolution:
"They had escape plans. Elon Musk to Mars. Mark Zuckerberg to the Metaverse. Peter Thiel to New Zealand. Jeff Bezos to space. Sam Altman's brain uploaded to the cloud. They weren't saving humanity. They were preparing to abandon it."
The people who built the tools that are about to change everything do not have an answer for what humans are supposed to do in the world they are creating.
So they are leaving. The rest of us are staying.
It turns out somebody left us an answer a very long time ago , and it has been practiced, every Friday night, for three thousand years.
In this episode, we draw on Keynes, Aristotle, the Tanya, Martin Buber, Hannah Arendt, and the Ramchal to answer the question the tech billionaires couldn't: what are humans actually for?
Still Human Weekly explores the intersection of ancient wisdom and artificial intelligence — one episode every Monday.
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