Designed for life
Imagine we design for life. Everything.
Our economic and monetary system.
Our homes, cities and communities.
The products and services we use.
Our technology.
If we do this, everything changes, including us.
I watch as we embrace the newest ‘innovation.’ AI. A hard data driven monster that consumes more energy than we can imagine, sold on the promise of the new pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
While AI can be extremely useful, we must remember that it is the hammer equivalent of a human-designed tool. Useful in context, terrible out of context. A bunt instrument.
Are we designing and deploying AI committed to enabling an increase in all life?
Even the question is laughable. If there are AI designers who are designing AI and its use for the thriving of all life, they are in the extreme minority.
For to do this, we must begin by recognising that AI only gathers one half of the data. My eyes roll as we repeat the pattern of ignoring half the world, just as we have with women.
Nora Bateson coined the exquisite word, Warm Data. All the relational data. The weightless, immeasurable experiences. The stuff of humanity. Meaning. Love. Beauty. Care. At least half of life lives in the Warm Data set. If there are Gods, they laugh as we try to enclose Warm Data so we can put a price on it and turn it into a commodity. The Gods know this is an impossible puzzle.
Thank God. For to turn the precious stuff that makes life into a commodity would be to debase the sacred.
My eyes roll again as I watch the tech titans and the Wild West-like gold rush towards AI. The same captains of power and wealth, the same thinking, the same gender. Thinking that the same thinking will change the world, never considering that they are missing half the world and that their design is missing half the information, information that cannot be captured in bites and bits.
Whoever or whatever designed Universe built into the design code the imperative that forces humanity to consider Synergy. The whole. Universe itself.
Universe is designed for life. Humans have far to go to even begin to understand this.
Photo Taken September 17th 2024
