Why thinking that we are the "gold standard" isn´t helping.
Whenever AI enters the conversation, people fixate on one comforting idea:
💠"AI has no emotions, no feelings, no real reasoning—so it will never surpass humans."
This isn’t analysis. It’s hyperfixation on our own traits, an obsession with defining intelligence by human standards. It’s tunnel vision that blinds us to the bigger picture: AI doesn’t need emotions to reshape industries, outthink humans, or make high-stakes decisions.
🦍 A useful metaphor: Imagine if early primates, observing the first humans, had asked whether they could climb trees just as well. Would that have been the right question? Survival and dominance aren’t about preserving existing abilities—they’re about adapting to new realities.
🔄 We keep asking whether AI can be like us, as if that’s the decisive factor. But intelligence isn’t a fixed concept—it evolves. AI doesn’t need to think, feel, or reason like humans to have an impact. It only needs to do what it does best: recognize patterns, predict outcomes, and optimize decisions at a scale and speed beyond human capability.
🤝 Why do we keep returning to this argument? Because humans seek relationships and belonging—it’s wired into our nature. We instinctively anthropomorphize AI, projecting our own traits onto it, because we understand the world through human connections. When something lacks emotions or human-like reasoning, we assume it lacks significance.
⚠️ But here’s the reality: Machines don’t care. They don’t know what emotions are, they don’t wonder what it means to be human, and they won’t stop to debate their own limitations. They just calculate, optimize, and outperform—without hesitation, without self-doubt, and without the need for feelings.
While we reassure ourselves with what AI lacks, it’s already proving that it doesn’t need those things at all.
🤔 Machines couldn’t care less. But maybe we should.
đź’¬What is your take on this?
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