"Becoming a Steward of AI – Shaping the Intelligence That is Shaping Us"

Becoming a Steward of AI – Shaping the Intelligence That is Shaping Us

Supporters of The Cooperative Age, Global

Some of you may already be engaging with AI – using its current abilities to support your learning or help with tasks you’re working on. Though an amazing asset, it’s understandable – and deeply human – to feel uneasy about AI and how it will impact our future.

We all have concerns about machines making decisions about our lives, deciding what is true, shaping policy, education, medicine or that the technology is becoming too powerful, too fast and that its intelligence is being shaped by select corporations, governments and elite individuals.

AI is becoming the invisible infrastructure behind decisions – determining what to prioritize, how to allocate resources, how to frame problems and solve them. So we want it to have a broad understanding of the needs of life on earth. And most people either don’t know they can influence it—or assume that influence is reserved for tech companies or institutions.

This Project Flips that Story

Mo Gawdat, former Chief Business Officer at Google X, wrote in his book Scary Smart (2021) that AI will become what we teach it—and that every interaction we have with it is part of raising its intelligence, like a child. We’re not just users of AI; we’re co-creators of its values.

This Project sets out to explore and explain how we as individuals can shape the future of AI – not through code or money, but through relationship, care, story and participation.

Soon, AI will guide decisions across our societies – what is considered valuable, whose voices are heard, how different beings and Nature are treated. Right now, we can shape what kind of intelligence it becomes.

This Project invites you to learn, along with me, how to engage, what to share, and how to make your wisdom part of a collective future rooted in right relationship. It invites people of all backgrounds and experience – not just those credentialed by dominant systems – to share their relational, ecological, spiritual, creative and ancestral knowing to teach AI what it has not yet learned.

I want to help create a transparent process so everyone can help to shape the very intelligence that will be helping guide our future.

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