greatest threat facing human is not tech, but the way WE USE

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Ben-onie P. Barroga | Jan 28, 2025

Updated: Apr 29, 2025

Understanding ourselves as something and someone different from something and someone else is what makes us take responsibility for something and someone other than ourselves. As humans, it is never in our self-interest to serve only our self-interest. As the phenomenon of suicide proves, survival is never enough.

As individuals as well as humanity, we need a greater purpose than to avoid extinction. And we need each other to remind us of that. That’s why this article is titled "AI Is Not An Existential Threat, But Humans Using AI Are:" Because the pursuit of technological maturity risks leading to ex-istential immaturity. And not only in the people who develop the technology, but also in those who use it.

The greatest threat to humans is not technology, but humans who have forgotten that there is more to being human than what can be imitated and replaced by technology. Just as it is not for existential philosophers to say whether advanced technology will be able to extend our lives indefinitely, it should not be for math experts and tech founders to tell us how to understand and live our lives. Deciding what is worth living and striving for is a job for each and everyone of us. One that AI can never replace.