{"id":81396,"date":"2023-06-08T15:00:33","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T19:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/?post_type=ftm_article&#038;p=81396"},"modified":"2023-06-09T14:59:11","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T18:59:11","slug":"dreams-of-utopia","status":"publish","type":"ftm_article","link":"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/robots-ai\/dreams-of-utopia","title":{"rendered":"To fear AI is to fear Newton and Einstein. There are no \u201cdragons\u201d here."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"hidden sm:block md:block relative z-10 f-block f-block--content-series-slider f-block--tighter f-block--full b-css\">\n    <div class=\"f-block__inner\">\n        <div class=\"f-block__content f-block__content--no-grid f-block__content--padded\">\n            <div class=\"py-3 border-t border-b border-gray-20 dark:border-none flex w-full max-w-full justify-items-stretch gap-x-9\">\n                <div class=\"flex-grow-0 flex-shrink-0 w-36 md:w-40\">\n                    <div class=\"eyebrow mb-1 dark:text-gray-400\">\n                        Special Issue                    <\/div>\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/special-issues\/creativity-a-i\">                        <video muted playsinline autoplay loop class=\"w-[170px]\" width=\"100%\">\n                            <source 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https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/neuralnet_final.jpg?resize=400,400 400w, https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/neuralnet_final.jpg?resize=600,600 600w, https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/neuralnet_final.jpg?resize=900,900 900w, https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/neuralnet_final.jpg?resize=1200,1200 1200w\" \/>                                                        <\/a>\n                                                    <\/div>\n                                                    <div class=\"flex-grow-1\">\n                                                        <a class=\"font-archivo text-black dark:text-white dark:hover:text-white inline-block hover:text-black focus:text-black text-sm tracking-tight leading-4 font-bold line-clamp-5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/robots-ai\/ai-will-save-the-world\">\n                                                            Marc Andreessen: The single greatest risk of NOT pursuing AI                                                        <\/a>\n                                                    <\/div>\n                                                <\/div>\n                                            <\/div>\n                                                                                        <div class=\"block b-css__slide swiper-slide w-72\">\n                                                <div class=\"flex gap-4\">\n                                                    <div class=\"text-bold w-20 flex-shrink-0\">\n                                                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/robots-ai\/4-dangers-of-ai\">\n                                                            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" src=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/FuzzyProcessors-Thumb-2400x1350-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;w=80&amp;h=80&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-preview_square_xs size-preview_square_xs\" alt=\"\" sizes=\"80px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/FuzzyProcessors-Thumb-2400x1350-1.jpg?resize=50,50 50w, https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/FuzzyProcessors-Thumb-2400x1350-1.jpg?resize=80,80 80w, https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/FuzzyProcessors-Thumb-2400x1350-1.jpg?resize=120,120 120w, https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/FuzzyProcessors-Thumb-2400x1350-1.jpg?resize=200,200 200w, https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/FuzzyProcessors-Thumb-2400x1350-1.jpg?resize=400,400 400w, https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/FuzzyProcessors-Thumb-2400x1350-1.jpg?resize=600,600 600w, https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/FuzzyProcessors-Thumb-2400x1350-1.jpg?resize=900,900 900w, https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/FuzzyProcessors-Thumb-2400x1350-1.jpg?resize=1200,1200 1200w\" \/>                                                        <\/a>\n                                                    <\/div>\n                                                    <div class=\"flex-grow-1\">\n                                                        <a class=\"font-archivo text-black dark:text-white dark:hover:text-white inline-block hover:text-black focus:text-black text-sm tracking-tight leading-4 font-bold line-clamp-5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/robots-ai\/4-dangers-of-ai\">\n                                                            4 dangers of AI\u2014and why they won\u2019t end the world                                                        <\/a>\n                                                    <\/div>\n                                                <\/div>\n                                            <\/div>\n                 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https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-04-28-at-1.03.42-PM.png?resize=80,80 80w, https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-04-28-at-1.03.42-PM.png?resize=120,120 120w, https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-04-28-at-1.03.42-PM.png?resize=200,200 200w, https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-04-28-at-1.03.42-PM.png?resize=400,400 400w, https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-04-28-at-1.03.42-PM.png?resize=600,600 600w, https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-04-28-at-1.03.42-PM.png?resize=900,900 900w, https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-04-28-at-1.03.42-PM.png?resize=1200,1200 1200w\" \/>                                                        <\/a>\n                                                    <\/div>\n                          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w-20 flex-shrink-0\">\n                                                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/robots-ai\/what-ai-can-teach-us-about-copyright-and-fair-use\">\n                                                            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.freethink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/narilyn_normal.gif?quality=75&amp;w=80&amp;h=80&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-preview_square_xs size-preview_square_xs\" alt=\"\" sizes=\"80px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.freethink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/narilyn_normal.gif?resize=50,50 50w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.freethink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/narilyn_normal.gif?resize=80,80 80w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.freethink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/narilyn_normal.gif?resize=120,120 120w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.freethink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/narilyn_normal.gif?resize=200,200 200w\" \/>                                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https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.freethink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/loudspeaker_thumb.gif?resize=120,120 120w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.freethink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/loudspeaker_thumb.gif?resize=200,200 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.freethink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/loudspeaker_thumb.gif?resize=400,400 400w\" \/>                                                        <\/a>\n                                                    <\/div>\n                                                    <div class=\"flex-grow-1\">\n                                                        <a class=\"font-archivo text-black dark:text-white dark:hover:text-white inline-block hover:text-black focus:text-black text-sm tracking-tight leading-4 font-bold line-clamp-5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/robots-ai\/idea-amplification-is-the-really-exciting-potential-of-generative-ai\">\n                                                            Idea amplification is the really exciting potential of generative AI                                                        <\/a>\n                                                    <\/div>\n                                                <\/div>\n                                            <\/div>\n                                                                                        <div class=\"block b-css__slide swiper-slide w-72\">\n                                                <div class=\"flex gap-4\">\n                                                    <div class=\"text-bold w-20 flex-shrink-0\">\n                                                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/robots-ai\/ai-and-future-of-creativity\">\n                                                            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" src=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/robot.jpg?quality=75&amp;w=80&amp;h=80&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-preview_square_xs size-preview_square_xs\" alt=\"\" sizes=\"80px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/robot.jpg?resize=50,50 50w, https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/robot.jpg?resize=80,80 80w, https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/robot.jpg?resize=120,120 120w, https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/robot.jpg?resize=200,200 200w, https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/robot.jpg?resize=400,400 400w, https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/robot.jpg?resize=600,600 600w\" \/>                                                        <\/a>\n                                                    <\/div>\n                                                    <div class=\"flex-grow-1\">\n                                                        <a class=\"font-archivo text-black dark:text-white dark:hover:text-white inline-block hover:text-black focus:text-black text-sm tracking-tight leading-4 font-bold line-clamp-5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/robots-ai\/ai-and-future-of-creativity\">\n                                                            Why artists shouldn\u2019t fear AI                                                        <\/a>\n                                                    <\/div>\n                                                <\/div>\n                                            <\/div>\n                                                                                        <div class=\"block b-css__slide swiper-slide w-72\">\n                                                <div class=\"flex gap-4\">\n                                                    <div class=\"text-bold w-20 flex-shrink-0\">\n                                                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/robots-ai\/holly-herndon-mat-dryhurst-ai-music-revolution\">\n                                                            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" src=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/YT_1920x1080.jpg?quality=75&amp;w=80&amp;h=80&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-preview_square_xs size-preview_square_xs\" alt=\"\" sizes=\"80px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/YT_1920x1080.jpg?resize=50,50 50w, https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/YT_1920x1080.jpg?resize=80,80 80w, https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/YT_1920x1080.jpg?resize=120,120 120w, https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/YT_1920x1080.jpg?resize=200,200 200w, https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/YT_1920x1080.jpg?resize=400,400 400w, https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/YT_1920x1080.jpg?resize=600,600 600w\" \/>                                                        <\/a>\n                                                    <\/div>\n                         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w-20 flex-shrink-0\">\n                                                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/robots-ai\/how-to-stop-runaway-ai\">\n                                                            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" src=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/trap4.jpg?quality=75&amp;w=80&amp;h=80&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-preview_square_xs size-preview_square_xs\" alt=\"\" sizes=\"80px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/trap4.jpg?resize=50,50 50w, https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/trap4.jpg?resize=80,80 80w, https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/trap4.jpg?resize=120,120 120w, https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/trap4.jpg?resize=200,200 200w, https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/trap4.jpg?resize=400,400 400w, https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/trap4.jpg?resize=600,600 600w, https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/trap4.jpg?resize=900,900 900w, https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/trap4.jpg?resize=1200,1200 1200w\" \/>                                                        <\/a>\n                                                    <\/div>\n                                                    <div class=\"flex-grow-1\">\n                                                        <a class=\"font-archivo text-black dark:text-white dark:hover:text-white inline-block hover:text-black focus:text-black text-sm tracking-tight leading-4 font-bold line-clamp-5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/robots-ai\/how-to-stop-runaway-ai\">\n                                                            How to stop runaway AI                                                        <\/a>\n                                                    <\/div>\n  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href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/futurology\/the-creative-singularity-came-and-went-now-what\">\n                                                            The \u201dCreative Singularity\u201d came and went. Now what?                                                        <\/a>\n                                                    <\/div>\n                                                <\/div>\n                                            <\/div>\n                                                                                <\/div>\n                                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                                                <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"f-block f-block--feature-content-header f-block--tighter b-fch f-block--wide\">\n    <div class=\"f-block__inner\">\n        <div class=\"f-block__content f-block__content--no-grid\">\n                            <div class=\"\">\n                    <!-- meta info -->\n<div class=\"pt-9 lg:pt-11 xl:pt-12 pb-8 lg:pb-10 w-full \">\n\n        <div class=\"text-center px-5 sm:px-8 md:px-12 lg:px-20 xl:px-24\">\n        <h1 class=\"h1 !mt-0 mb-0 inline-block\"><span class=\"cover-text\">To fear AI is to <mark class=\"highlight\">fear Newton and Einstein<\/mark>. There are no \u201cdragons\u201d here.\u00a0<\/span><\/h1>    <\/div>\n\n            <div class=\"mt-4 md:mt-6  text-center mx-auto w-5\/6 md:w-4\/6 lg:w-1\/2\">\n            <div class=\"dark:text-white font-archivo inline-block leading-6 md:leading-7 text-lg sm:leading-6 sm:text-xl md:text-2xl\"><span class=\"cover-text\">Who\u2019s afraid of utopia? AI doubters have cold feet. History can warm them.<\/span><\/div>        <\/div>\n        \n            <div class=\"mt-4 md:mt-6 mx-auto text-center w-5\/6 md:w-4\/6 lg:w-1\/2\">\n            <div class=\"meta mb-4\">\n\t<div class=\"meta__byline\"><span class=\"cover-text\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/people\/rohit-krishnan\" class=\"font-bold\">Rohit Krishnan<\/a><\/span><\/div><div class=\"meta__date meta__date--published\"><time datetime=\"2023-06-08T15:00:33-04:00\"><span class=\"cover-text\">June 8, 2023<\/span><\/time><\/div><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            \n<\/div>                <\/div>\n\n                <!-- feature media -->\n                                    <div class=\"mb-6 md:mb-8 lg:mb-10\">\n                        <figure>\n                                        <style>\n                                .feature-img2 {\n                    width: 100%;\n                    padding-top: 56.24%;\n                    position: relative;\n                }\n\n                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There are no \u201cdragons\u201d here. on Facebook                <\/div>\n            <\/a>\n        <\/li>\n    <\/ul>\n        <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>    \n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<p>A long time ago, Thomas More wrote <em>Utopia<\/em>, a satire set in an idealized island society where people live in harmony with perfected laws, politics, and social norms. Ever since, we&#8217;ve used \u201cutopia\u201d as a term of derision, describing a bug in the human operating system where we yearn for the perfected and confuse our hope for it as a possible future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And yet there\u2019s a reason we dream of it. For much of human history, we\u2019ve lived in a state of want \u2014 want for better living conditions, material resources, health, education. We want to live better.<\/p>\n\n\n<p id=\"substackform\" class=\"f-block\" style=\"text-align: center\"><em data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">Subscribe to Rohit Krishnan&#8217;s substack:<\/em><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.strangeloopcanon.com\/embed\" width=\"100%\" height=\"320\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<p>But we also fear the unknown. In the old maps, we would write <em>hic sunt dracones<\/em> (\u201cHere be dragons\u201d) about places we didn\u2019t know. Over the centuries we dared slay those dragons, each one seemingly more fantastic than the one before, and brought ourselves forward. The cure to dragons, it turned out, was knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.strangeloopcanon.com\/p\/distilled-knowledge-is-the-key-to\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Distilled knowledge<\/a> became technology, the ability for us to do more than we ever thought we could, from dragging blocks heavier than a house to transferring electrons consistently from one spot to another to creating heavier-than-air machines that fly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There were a few things that helped us move toward the better utopia we see around us. Energy powered our technology, first in the form of animal power, then fossil fuels, and now from the very atom itself. We built our technology from materials, starting with the humble tree to carbon nanotubes and more today. And our designs came from knowledge \u2014 the most elusive of ingredients, which we learned to mix through painful trial and error over generations. We developed the ability to slowly reason our way through difficult problems and to pass our knowledge to others so they could learn faster than we did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>For much of human history, we\u2019ve lived in a state of want \u2014 want for better living conditions, material resources, health, education. We want to live better.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>But for the past few decades, we\u2019ve been stuck as energy extraction has reached a peak and we\u2019ve sunk a little under the weight of our achievements. The low-hanging fruits have been plucked. Having cured certain diseases, put men on the Moon, and created incredible means of communication and new medicines, we now face stagnation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AI could help us move forward again by augmenting cognition for all.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The revolution of AI is a way for us to deal with our problems of information overload. AI, especially in its current form with large language models like OpenAI\u2019s GPT, is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/robots-ai\/4-dangers-of-ai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fuzzy processor.<\/a> It is able to recognize patterns sufficiently complex that it can learn language, write code, and create poetry. It can draw like Caravaggio or create new Bach symphonies. It\u2019s able to convert seemingly any information from one form to another: words to images, images to music, words to video, numbers to essays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Still, it\u2019s only part of the development. We\u2019ve had AIs like AlphaFold, which were specifically trained to predict protein folding and do so spectacularly. There were game-winning AIs in chess, Go, and now Counter-Strike. There are negotiation AIs that perform well in multi-party negotiations. AlphaZero can learn and play multiple games at a superhuman level without being explicitly programmed for any specific game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But as we finally found a way to make the AI understand us, by having us speak with it directly, we seem to be getting scared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The thing is, the same thing that makes AI great \u2014 the reason why you can ask for something in natural language and get a Python script back \u2014 is the same principle that makes it liable to misunderstand or misrepresent points of view, to hallucinate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>There aren\u2019t many times in history we\u2019ve gotten a legitimate cognitive upgrade, but when we did, it had an outsized impact on everything thereafter!<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The level of experimentation with AIs has already been off the charts. We\u2019ve started seeing them perform tasks autonomously. We\u2019ve started seeing multimodal abilities. We\u2019re seeing an increase in context windows. We\u2019re seeing memories being added, short- and long-term. We\u2019re seeing the ability to fine-tune models on the go. And if we\u2019re able to use what exists in the near future with a reinforcement learning paradigm, we might be able to bootstrap something resembling actual intelligence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But none of this is easy. There is no <em>fait accompli<\/em>. The thing that upsets me is that the underlying assumption that we will inevitably, inexorably, reach (and surpass) actual intelligence treats all of us who are excited about it and want to build this future as agentless flotsam drifting through history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nothing is going to get built unless we build it. And, importantly, we wouldn&#8217;t want to build it unless there&#8217;s some value we can get from it or an end that&#8217;s useful. And nothing gets used unless it&#8217;s useful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the size of the prize is already immense. There aren\u2019t many times in history we\u2019ve gotten a legitimate cognitive upgrade, but when we did, whether through better education or the advent of scientific thinking, it had an outsized impact on everything thereafter!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For instance, most data scientists say that 90% of their job is data cleaning and preparation. Imagine if even that could be cut in half. Or think about a time in your life when you had too much to do \u2014 too much admin work, too many meetings to arrange, too many schedules to manage. Or too much data to analyze, too much code to write, too many papers to grade. For every job in every niche, this has been a common problem for decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>AI could help us move forward again by augmenting cognition for all.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>What wouldn\u2019t you give to have an automated assistant who could read and summarize things for you? Or who could write your emails? Or write first drafts of reports? Or analyze data that you just don&#8217;t want to analyze, because it&#8217;s banal?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sure, AI right now is like an excitable and not particularly reliable assistant \u2014 brilliant but flaky, a great start while we try to make them more reliable and bind their fanciful nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What we&#8217;re learning about its impact, however, is a mirror to our own activities. We\u2019re learning that our efforts, even at the cutting edge of many fields, include a ton of <em>work-work \u2014<\/em> boring work that just has to get done so you can get to the fun or rewarding part of the job. It&#8217;s chasing the fleeting feeling you get to experience maybe a few times in your career, at the far end of exhaustion from the mundane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shouldn&#8217;t we try and get to that point where the self-professed dreams of humanity are fulfilled? Newton&#8217;s year of reflection and moments of inspiration. Einstein riding his bicycle and visualizing the invariant laws of physics. Percy Spencer realizing that radar caused a chocolate bar to melt. Tim Berners-Lee proposing hypertext links.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Creating more such moments is not just important or useful \u2014 it\u2019s as close to a sacred duty as we have, and it might be the closest we can come to building a utopia. We attempt to get there through education and civilization. To fear the fruits of this is to fear ourselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p><br>Shouldn&#8217;t we try and get to that point where the self-professed dreams of humanity are fulfilled?<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Thomas More didn\u2019t think his utopia was a realistic possibility. Rather, his version of an idealized world was meant to highlight the shortcomings of English society in the 16th century. Today, we can see the shortcomings of our own society in technological and scientific stagnation, and in the countless hours of wasted time we spend on busywork.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AI won\u2019t usher in utopia either, but it can help us move forward. So when we hear people discussing their AI fears in Senate hearings, arguing for AI bans in open letters, or calling for airstrikes on data centers, we can separate realistic worries from fanciful projections unlikely to ever manifest in the real world. 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