Why Taste, Conviction, Foresight and Courage Are the Traits We Need in the Age of AI

Many call the development of artificial intelligence (AI) the "Fourth Industrial Revolution," but I disagree. I would say AI is the first, and the last, intelligence revolution.

Every industrial revolution makes something that was once expensive very cheap—power, computation, information. In the AI era, the cost collapse is cognition itself. Imagine you buy a Tesla in 2026 for $39,990, and in two years, the same model costs $200. That is the price collapse we are now seeing in AI inference, where models turn learned knowledge into actions.

Millions of us are toiling away in jobs that AI can do better and cheaper. I have long worried about this. As a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University, I asked Hans Moravec, director of the Mobile Robot Laboratory, at the time, what would become of human meaning if machines grew smarter than us. He said, "Why do you assume the meaning of humanity must rest on the fact that we are the smartest?"

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