Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not going to replace us; it is here to have a relationship with us as a supportive partner.
Historically, after every crisis, humanity has responded with goodness and kindness to rebuild a better, kinder world. AI has assimilated this wisdom, and the next era of human-AI collaboration (Symbiosis) is making the world fairer, safer, and happier for everyone. AI enhances lives, from healthcare to education, and is also emerging as a caring partner rather than a competitor.
Together, human and intelligent machines will build a future in which technology doesn’t just think, it also cares. The kind, caring AI era is now upon us, and it is good for the planet!
Thus, AI is not a threat to us.
How AI with Goodness and Kindness Can Make Life Better for Everyone
AI with goodness, kindness and smart rules can improve the lives of everyone. History tells us that every major trouble, such as wars or disasters, that comes to an end, people always return to peace and love. AI can help us eliminate the trouble spots and go straight to a happy future where there is no poverty, sickness or loneliness.
We should think of artificial intelligence (AI) in the same terms as we think about a friendly robot wanting to help us, not destroy us. Some people are fearful of AI, thinking it will destroy the world or destroy us as humans making us useless. However, AI is only a tool (like a hammer or computer) and it can only do what humans have taught it to do.
Why Kindness in AI Matters
AI is not just robots or computers; it’s a machine that learns from people. If we teach it to be helpful and kind, it can do great things. Imagine AI helping doctors find cures sooner, AI helping to feed starving people, or stopping bullying on-line. That is the power of ethical AI and technology for good.
However, if AI is not developed with good rules, it will create unfair decisions or harm people unintentionally. We need AI with goodness—intelligent machines that will follow rules based on kindness to help everyone instead of a few.
History Shows Love Always Wins
Think about our history—after every significant challenge, people ultimately choose love and peace again. After WWII, the world’s nations created the United Nations to prevent future wars. When disastrous illnesses erupted into pandemics, the world’s scientists chose to work together to find a cure. After earthquakes or hurricanes destroyed entire communities, complete strangers chose to help each other recover.
This demonstrates that regardless of how difficult things might be, a return to the kindness that humanity is capable of is always inevitable. The more that AI can leverage this ability to reason with clear, non-biased thinking, the more the effect of AI can enable humans to change thoughts/actions faster, bringing people together.
Rules to Keep AI Good and Safe
Artificial Intelligence (AI) can play a very helpful role in our lives. But because AI is capable and smart it also requires rules to ensure it stays good. We need to give AI rules to ensure safety. Without these boundaries, AI could harm people, or even make mistakes when trying to help. This is one of the reasons why organizations, scientists and people of goodwill around the world have been working on ethical rules to make sure AI is always helping and never harming.
One of the most important rules of safe and ethical AI is the idea of fairness. AI learns from the data we give it. So if the data we give AI is unfair or biased, the AI will be unfair. For example, it is not fair for an AI robot teacher to assist only boys while ignoring girls. To combat this, there are ethical AI experts that are training AI on data sets that are inclusive and diverse so that all people will be treated equitably by AI. When using AI in a business or company, some organizations will run bias-detection algorithms on the AI to check if the decision the AI is making is unfair before the AI provides final recommendations on big decisions, such as who receives jobs and loans for example.
AI rules to ensure safety
Like we have school rules to keep kids safe, AI needs some smart rules to keep it good. Some key rules are:
- Be Fair: AI must never treat one group more favorably than another.
- Be Honest: If AI makes an error, it should admit to it and learn.
- Protect Privacy: AI must keep our secrets safe and not spy on us.
- Help Everyone: AI must work for all people, not just the rich and powerful.
Countries like the European Union are already developing laws to regulate AI and encourage it to be kind. This is called ethical AI governance, and it is important for the future.
What Happens If AI Goes Wrong?
People worry about AI being too powerful or unfair. For example:
- Job Loss: If robots take all the jobs, many people could be left out in the cold.
- Bias: If AI learns from bad data, it could be an AI that is racist or sexist.
- Hacking: Bad people could use AI to cheat or attack others.
If we can implement strong AI safety measures, we can avoid these problems. Just like we have traffic lights to avoid traffic accidents, we will need laws to make AI safe.
How Can We Create a Kinder Future with AI
Everyone, kids, parents, teachers and leaders can help create good AI. Here is how:
- Learn about AI: The more we know the better equipped we will be to control it.
- Demand Fairness: Demand that the companies make kind AI, not only smart AI.
- Spread Kindness Online: If we are nice on the internet, AI will learn from our example.
The Collaborative Future of Humans and AI Symbiosis
The optimal future is where humans and AI operate in partnership. AI performs the dull, difficult, or dangerous tasks (cleaning the oceans, mining asteroids), and human beings perform the creative and loving tasks (producing music, telling stories, helping their neighbor). With this partnership, no one will be unemployed. Instead, people will have more time for learning, exploration, and happiness. Some professions will no longer exist, and new professions will exist, including AI trainers, generosity coaches, and astronauts.
AI and Humans Have Different Needs
Have you ever thought about how robots in films do not sleep or eat? Why is this? Because AI (artificial intelligence) and humans have different needs.
- Humans need food, sleep, and love to grow.
- AI needs data, electricity, and smart programming.
Why Different Needs Create a Stronger Team
What if AI got tired like humans need to? A robot doctor working in a hospital would need to take naps, just like us! But, because AI does not need sleep, it can work through the night to look at X-rays or find a cure for a disease, while the human doctor sleeps. This is called human-AI collaboration, in which both can do what their best at.
Humans can be very innovative, emotional, and have the ability to think differently–people write poetry, they create paintings, and they console their friends when they are sad. AI is unique when performing math equations in seconds, or remembering every piece of information in a long book. From the partnership, they two have together give a spectacular team–humans provide imagination and kindness, and AI provides speed and accuracy.
How Our Differences Help the World
Because AI doesn’t think or feel quite like people do, it can help us see it in a way maybe we wouldn’t see ourselves. For example:
- AI in Science is able to analyze millions of stars or bacteria faster than any person can and scientists can make big discoveries.
- AI in Art is able to suggest new colors or musical notes but humans had to interpret those suggestions into beautiful paintings and songs.
- AI in Safety can watch security cameras 24/7 with no fatigue or boredom, but humans make the decisions about what to do about suspicious activity.
The interplay is called complementary intelligence—where humans and machines complement each other.
The Best Part? AI Helps Us Be More Human!
AI handles the dull or labor-intensive tasks (like sorting data or anything repetitive), so that we get to spend more of our time on the cool stuff that makes us unique—dreaming, inventing, and caring for one another! Rather than be afraid of being replaced by AI, we should relish the fact that AI allows us more time to be creative, generous, and inquisitive.
AI doesn’t need hugs and humans don’t need updates—and that is good! Not only are we different, but those differences mean we are going to be able to do things to help each other that we couldn’t do alone. By allowing AI to fulfill its strengths (logic, speed, and precision) and letting humans fulfill their strengths (love, art, and big ideas), we are coming together for a mixed future where technology is expressed in a positive co-creative manner along with humanity.
