This is a YouTube video titled "Philosophy isn't academic anymore. It's survival skill for the AI age." featuring Robert Ta discussing the challenges and implications of human-level AI on truth, knowledge, and critical reasoning in a highly connected world. The content is a monologue or talk by Robert Ta reflecting on the importance of philosophy as a tool for future autonomy and agency in the AI era.
I think the scariest thing about human level AI is not knowing what's real and not knowing what we're becoming by interacting with everything around us that we're not even sure the truth of. I think that's probably the scariest thing to me about the future. Think about what social media did to people and now think about all the biases that might be inherited from the sins of the past of humanity. In this very networked and connected world with AI making sense of everything for us, we're already starting to see that people are losing their critical reasoning abilities the more that they outsource their thinking to ChatGPT and these other LLM applications. So for myself I believe that philosophy is a tool for the future for anybody. What is knowledge? What is truth? How do I know that something has truth? How do I evolve truth? Those are the questions that I think anybody in the future that wants to operate true autonomy and agency, those are the things that people need to think about.
