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AI's Impact on Human Identity and Creativity | Bardeep Panesar
Episode 154th December 2024 • Biz Bites Bonus content • CommTogether Pty Ltd
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In this exclusive bonus episode of "Biz Bites," we delve into the profound implications of artificial intelligence on the human experience.

We explore the evolution of human conformism, the impact of AI on various professions, and the power of human creativity in an AI-driven world. We also discuss how AI can be a tool for liberation and abundance, and how we can redefine human purpose to harness its power for a more meaningful future. Get a glimpse into the future and discover how you can navigate the AI revolution.

Plus, hear a sneak peek into Bardeep's upcoming book, "Disrupted Human," which delves deeper into these critical themes.

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Let's get into this bonus bit of content, because I'm really fascinated

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by this whole idea of where we're going artificial intelligence, humans, purpose,

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this is a, the strange bedfellows in many respects I'm interested in

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what is happening in the future.

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Where are we going?

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This is.

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This is the big stuff, right?

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The stuff of big ideas now that we wanted to talk about.

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And I remember we were having a little conversation around thought leadership and

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how people do a little bit of, a bit of prompting on AI and they get this output.

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And they think they published that as if they're thought leaders.

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And we talked about original thinkers, right?

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This is very different.

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So now this is about the big ideas, the big stuff, right?

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And I, and as we were saying, I believe people have swallowed the conditioning

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that they've been brought up in and thought that life is about something

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because we've been given this this set of beliefs about life going you, you're

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born, then you go to school, you get educated, you learn certain skills.

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Then you apply those skills in the world because you need money to live.

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And then, if you're lucky, you buy a house, you have a family, this and the

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other, you have kids and then you get older and then whatever it is, you get to

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some sort of retirement and then you die.

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That's what life is.

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That's what life is about.

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And we've taken that hook line and sinker and we've gone,

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yes, that's what life's about.

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Brilliant.

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All right, I don't have to think anymore.

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I'm just going to follow that.

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I'm just going to conform.

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As humans evolved, over the 150, 000 years that we had pretty

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much the same kind of brain.

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On this planet.

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Conformists survive.

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Conformists are our brains evolutionary adaptation to, to do

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well in the tribe and to survive.

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Because if you don't conform and you're kicked out of your tribe, you die.

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We come from an ancestry of conformists to be sitting here today.

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And henceforth, we're conforming going forward, going, this is

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what the purpose of life is.

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So now, for the first time, we have something coming along in the world which

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is able to do our jobs better than we can.

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So if you're a graphic designer, if you're a research lawyer, even if you're

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a radiologist and you're a diagnostician, even as a coach, you can train large

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language models to, to behave as coaches.

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And I've tried them out.

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And I was having a conversation with Anthony Robbins the other day.

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And, it was interesting.

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I, the questions that were coming up were very much like that.

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Sure.

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The level of insight and all isn't right there right now, they've come a long way.

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So if we're going to get to the stage where, they're predicting

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by 2030, I think it was a McKinsey report that says 40 percent of

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people are going to be out of a job.

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We are no longer required to be commercial conformists in this world.

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Then what are we?

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And I think people have never asked the questions.

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of themselves, the deep questions we spoke about to go, actually

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what is my journey actually about?

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Because people have derived meaning about what their life is from

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what they were told and sold.

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And I think those are going to bring about a big chasm in human identity because

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people identify themselves as their work.

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I'm a doctor, I'm a lawyer, I'm a podcaster I'm a media

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journalist, I'm a coach.

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And I'm saying as if that's my identity, but I do coaching, right?

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You do media.

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Yeah, a doctor does medicine.

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That's not who we are.

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So we've taken what we do as our identity and we've confused them.

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We've mishmashed them because we're really, our brains really need identity.

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They need certainty.

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We've mishmashed them and going, Okay I'm certain about this.

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That's who I am.

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Hello, wake up, sunshine, things are changing.

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That's not who we are anymore.

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I think the interesting thing that I've seen is that, so if you look

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at it over the last hundred, so years that there's been a degree of

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creativity, but we've pulled more and more away from the arts and what has.

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Happen now, particularly with the bigger advent of AI, as you said

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earlier on in, in the main podcast that, AI is not new, but it has received

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a massive surge in recent times.

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Yeah.

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And so the.

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The thing about AI is there's a degree of conformity because assuming that you and

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I put in the same parameters, we should get a similar version of a response.

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AI does come up with multiple responses to any given question.

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But ultimately it's feeding from the same sources and it's going to

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give variations of the same thing.

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So whether you push the button or I push the button doesn't

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make that much difference.

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So we're teaching conformity on that level.

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So the only way that we're going to stand out.

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Is if we're in touch with our artistic side, our creativity, and that's

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going to be the differentiator.

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The interesting thing will be whether there is a surge in the arts as a result.

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Because artificial intelligence can't interpret in the same way that

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a human can based on experience.

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It can be programmed to do certain things.

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And, but it.

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It doesn't have the same vulnerability.

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And I think that's the differentiator.

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And while it goes back down to purpose as well.

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Yeah.

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The, so it's very interesting.

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The thing with, in terms of what you're saying that we should

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get the same response out of it.

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We're able to, for instance, we take chat, GPT, and we're able to create different

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personas or personalities through that.

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And then if you ask one persona, something, it's going to

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give you a particular answer.

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If you ask another person or something, it's going to give you a different answer.

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And so that flexibility to change things is there.

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In terms of creativity, I do believe that, yes, humans will need to bring

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about more creativity, in themselves.

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We need to reach for it.

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At the same time, we never thought AI was going to be creative.

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And yet it creates, it's able to analyze, for instance, someone's music.

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A composer's music and come up with a new composition.

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I read somewhere, there was a book I read on AI, which said

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that when the composer was shown listened to that, the composition

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said, that sounds just like me.

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And in fact, it is better than the last work that I've been working on.

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And the same thing is happening with the arts.

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The creativity is happening.

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See in terms of who we are as humans, right?

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We're all born kind of blank canvases as babies.

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Then we are immersed in this environment and then we learn from the

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environment and we learn from others.

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So first thing we learn is language, a sense of self, we start referring to

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ourselves as I, and then all these inputs happen and, our experience shapes us.

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So we've had different experiences.

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That's why you and I, are largely different people and we have

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our genetic predispositions.

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So imagine that you took a blank canvas AI and you immersed it in the 3D world.

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You give it the ability to see to hear, to smell, to taste, et cetera.

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Very quickly, you could give it the amount of experience a human had.

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One of the things when they're talking about generalized intelligence

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is, if you and I see a door, a doorknob, we know to turn it.

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But when we show images, different images of doors to an AI model,

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it doesn't know what to do or it doesn't know what they are.

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But if you had an AI or a robot or whatever immersed in that 3D

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environment, it could generalize and learn the same way, theoretically.

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So henceforth, we're just all kind of learning models in a way.

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We're just human learning models.

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I think we've we're going to be careful.

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We're not going to go in here for hours with this bonus content,

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but I just want to tell very deep.

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And I think that one of the perhaps the finishing bits to, to ask about,

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you could paint that picture and say, Wow, that's that's a dark destination

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for the, for humanity, because we could be saying that on one hand, artificial

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intelligence can do everything we can do more efficiently and better.

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And we become superfluous, but I don't think that's the case.

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I don't think that's what we're saying at all.

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I think the truth is that, as individuals, we're a product of.

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Very specific circumstances, part of it is DNA, part of it is how you brought

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up, part of it is how you view the world as a result of that, and part of it is

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your experiences that you have along the way, and ultimately all those things

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with the built in predisposition we all have to a degree of creativity and

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original thinking, that's where we're going to stand out, and that's where,

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in fact, we're This is an opportunity for humanity to surge as a result of

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the use of AI, to do the tasks that it is more efficient at and that the

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ideas and the creativity is where the opportunity lies to really move ahead.

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I was talking recently.

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On a podcast for a client.

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So I'm going to mention that podcast as well.

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It's called unblocked and and and unblocked.

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We were talking to to a guy who works in.

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I guess without going into all of the details of it, basically what he does

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is he works in with startups, but from a venture capitalist point of view,

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but is in a, they call venture studio.

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So it's, and what was really fascinating about that was the process of working

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in that environment is very much about a group of people working together

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and generating a whole lot of ideas.

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To then test the market, see whether these are going to fly, create the business,

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and then let the business flourish without them necessarily being involved.

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That's when it moves to other people.

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I think we're going to see more of that.

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And I think we need to see more of that to solve the problems that we have.

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And in his particular area, it was around climate, but there are lots of areas.

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And I think that's where the, that's where the future is because AI is not

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going to solve those problems without humanity being at the forefront of it.

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Totally.

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And we have, it's the first time in our history, we have access to a tool

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that could actually bring us the most immense and amazing freedom in our lives.

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So that, humans, we've been toiling for, for centuries, for 150, 000 years, modern

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humans have been toiling to survive.

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We're getting to the point where we could actually have an abundance.

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We have an abundance of resources.

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I'm not just talking about local resources.

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We, going into going doing space travel and getting resources from

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elsewhere is entirely possible soon.

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And we have an abundance of intelligence, a tool that can be used

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to solve the biggest problems, right?

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We have this amazing opportunity for to become free and not to toil.

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And that's why the concept of purpose is so important is that we've got to

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elevate our sense of purpose to be able to take advantage of that freedom and

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to actually enjoy it and to democratize it and to make it available to all.

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Now we've got a lot of great opportunity here for things to go right.

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I totally agree.

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And just like any scalpel can also be used.

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For bad, we've got to completely understand that we have a tool that we

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could use for immense damage, and we've got to be aware of the dangerous and

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we have to have the right intentions around how we go about the future.

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To create the utopic outcome as opposed to the dystopic one.

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So that's where I'm, what I'm going to say about that.

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I was going to say, we should, we finished with a great quote that fits in there.

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With great responsibility becomes great.

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With great power comes great responsibility.

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And yeah.

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And it's funny you said that because I reverse that often.

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And I go with great responsibility comes great power.

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Take responsibility.

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Is it okay if I mention that I'm writing a book about this?

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Yeah.

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Absolutely.

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Please do.

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Please do.

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So I'm in the process.

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Yeah.

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I, because what's happened is this has become such a hot topic and

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I've talked to people about it.

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They've gone.

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Wow.

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This I'm wrapped with these ideas.

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You've got please write a book.

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So I'm going to this Christmas I've set aside time.

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Finally, I'm gonna write this book.

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It's the working title is disrupted human.

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It might change.

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We'll see how it goes.

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If you're interested please, get in touch with Anthony or let him know.

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Let him put you in touch with me.

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Can I get my email address here?

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What we're going to do is we are going to put all of the details in the show notes.

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So people will be able to contact you directly.

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We'll have links to your website, links to your LinkedIn profile, and everything else

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will be in there so people can do that.

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I definitely want to extend that discussion and have that into the future.

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I'm looking forward to getting to the point.

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You're going to get a signed copy mate.

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I'm looking forward to it.

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And I hope we get a chance to chat even before then.

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Cause there's a, it's such a fascinating topic and I hope people have enjoyed it.

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It's the longest bonus bit of content that we've done, but I think

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it was worthwhile because I think everybody listening will enjoy the

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fact that was quite, it is quite.

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A deep discussion and one that we do have to have a lot more thought

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about going into the future.

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But deep, thank you so much.

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You've been incredibly generous with your time, with your stories

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and your thoughts and really appreciate you being part of it.

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And thank you to your listeners, to your audience, and I hope you enjoyed it.

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And yeah let's create the future we all want to see.

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Looking forward to looking forward to being a part of that together.

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