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Why You Will Always Be Smarter Than AI

Few issues today generate as much fascination, worry, and confusion as Artificial Intelligence (AI). Recently, for example, Vox published a feature on the potential risk of AI, stating that because AIs are becoming “smarter and smarter,” it is possible that at some point, “we’ll have handed humanity’s future over to systems with goals and priorities we don’t understand and can no longer influence.” But these concerns are unfounded, as they rest on the flawed premise that AI is even capable of “intelligence” in the first place. But it is not, at least not in the human sense of the word. To understand why, it is worth considering what makes the human mind unique.According to classical philosophy, there are “three acts of the mind.” The first is simple apprehension, which constitutes understanding or knowing the “whatness” or meaning of something. For example, knowing what a dog is entails knowing the nature of a dog, or “dogness,” and the properties that follow from it, such as barking, tail wagging, panting, chasing squirrels, etc. The second act of the mind is judgment, as expressed in a propo …

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