Comment by randomImmigrant

I agree, but it’s equally true access to a broader education where you can actually “strength train” your mental fitness will be needed. We kind of invented a digital telekinesis that lets us summon a vast amount of information on any topic.

We’ll need to build a nose for the right kind of information. Kids growing up in this world already are better at it than older folks who are newly thrown into this environment.

But beyond that I think our agency has already been sapped, as a species. Rebuilding the muscle to exercise our agency as free citizens using the information at our command to make better decisions… we shouldn’t surrender this ability to AI. The best science fiction and science writing already gives us plenty of reason to avoid this. We don’t need to get to the worst of it, and have all out war to correct it.

And that does mean investing heavily in human education. Getting better at teaching things to adults. Making insight easier to gain at every strata of society so true freedom of information when it comes to public works and governance is achieved, which makes the people the watchers and owners of government.

No easy thing to do. Absolutely doable, technologically speaking and in terms of our current biology.

What we have is years of thinking we’re not capable enough. Or cooperative enough. Or rational enough. We can be. We just need the right context, a full belly, and practice in using our voices and shaping our futures actively.