Questions · AI-Age Questions
As AI grows stronger and stronger, are humans still special?
Direct answer
Sheng does not place humans at the position of "the highest rank among all things." What it says is special about humans is not that they are "higher," but that humans can turn back and look at themselves. That is to say, the specialness of humans here is not computing power, speed, or control, but a reflexive capacity within a carrier: in this cell, life is able to ask "who am I, what am I doing."
Further explanation
If, in the future, other carriers also show this turning back of their own, then humans can no longer monopolize it merely on the strength of species identity. Conversely, AI surpassing humans at tasks does not automatically cancel out the special experience of being human. The key to the comparison should not simply be a ranking of capabilities, but how different carriers let becoming manifest.
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Conclusions that must not be drawn
It must not be written as human supremacy, nor as "humans and machines are completely the same."
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