How to maintain humanness and uniqueness in the most advanced AI?

London, 10/03/2024

I really like reading the articles about AI, which are truly thought-provoking, bordering on philosophy rather than just focusing on technological AI breakthroughs. The article ‘How to remain human in the Age of AI’ by Alberto Romero, belongs to that category. I will pick just two words about humans from his essay — ‘humanness’ and ‘uniqueness’ and apply it to AI to see if at the most advanced level, say at a Singularity point, Superintelligence can preserve these key human traits. I would say straight away that it is possible but it depends on how we develop AI. If we want to succeed in that, we need to be fast, before AI escapes our control. Here is my reasoning based on some assumptions, with which not everybody may agree.

I will start with human consciousness, which at its fundamental level may be an electromagnetic phenomenon, where millions of neurons fire every millisecond in a co-ordinated way, generating an electromagnetic wave. This then induces the next wave of millions of neurons to fire in a chain-like reaction. That is how it may happen according to Johnjoe McFadden, the author of the Conscious Electromagnetic Information Field Theory (CEMI), one of many theories of consciousness. That loop enables a person being constantly aware of the surroundings, thoughts, and emotions as…