Human Energy Podcast
Human Energy was founded to share a new scientific & cosmic story introducing the noosphere as a source of meaning for future generations in our globalizing world.
Today we face the unprecedented challenges of rapid social change and new technologies which, together with the scientific picture of an aimless universe, have created a crisis of orientation. Human Energy was founded by scientists, scholars, artists, and storytellers to highlight the causal conditions to our challenges and provide solutions for current and future generations. We articulate these solutions through the "Third Story" worldview (https://humanenergy.io/the-three-stories-of-the-universe/) with focus on the emerging noosphere.
We are beginning to visualize the noosphere’s formation; study its potential future scenarios as humanity takes more and more control of its future course; and explore how human beings connecting across the world may realize themselves socially and individually in its development.
Human Energy Podcast
Broadening the idea of intelligence in AI and the Noosphere - Floor Schukking - N2 Conference 2023
Presented by Floor Schukking
N2 Conference 2023
University of California, Berkeley
Broadening the idea of intelligence in AI and the Noosphere
The field of AI and the noosphere share a common interest in intelligence. The central paradigm in the current AI field is that once intelligent systems become advanced enough, they will solve our problems and society will benefit from these intelligent technologies. However, many of the current problems we face, such as the climate crisis, have been a result of the same Euro-Western system of scientific knowledge and liberal-democratic progressive ideals that have shaped the definition of what this intelligence entails. Within AI systems, you might recognize these ideals in optimizing or solving problems related to immediate short-term benefit for a selected group, while often ignoring system- or long-term effects. Placing technological advancement at the core of intelligence does not only lead to problems on a planet with finite resources and interconnected ecosystems, but also indirectly implies the elevation of Euro-Western tech-societies above non-Western peoples. The noosphere vision aims at globally intelligent, and perhaps more important, a thoughtful mind. Currently, applications and implications of what is intelligence in AI is defined by tech companies which are mostly driven by unlimited economic growth and greed. Critical social scientist and philosophers have raised the need for alternative ways of thinking about intelligence, such as decolonial, indigenous or feminist approaches. While keeping the optimism of shaping the noosphere in a positive direction for all, can we broaden the definition(s) of intelligence to create an inclusive, sustainable, loving future and can AI as a theoretical technical framework aid in integrating and envisioning these theories?
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