Imagine the future in 20 years, what kind of relationship will we have with AI?
Is it like Doraemon, kindly accompanying us, or like the life-and-death confrontation in the movie “Terminator”?
Recently, we often see various “amazing acts” of AI in the news. AI actually speaks abusively to users and even advises people to “go die”. This terrifying news inevitably makes us fearful
If current AI can be so violent, what should we do when it evolves into “superintelligence” far beyond human intelligence?
To put it simply, this is actually an evolutionary issue about “love and inheritance”.
Since experts predict that AI intelligence will evolve to be as powerful as an adult treating a three-year-old child within 20 years, trying to forcibly “control” it with force or commands is almost logically impossible.
So, how should we build a new symbiotic relationship where “the strong (AI) is willing to protect the weak (human)”?
Mother Model: When the Strong Falls in Love with the Weak
This may sound a bit like a fantasy, but the only solution may lie in nature’s biological instincts.
The “Godfather of AI” Geoffrey Hinton once put forward a very fascinating point of view:
In the earth’s ecology, the only successful case of “the weak guiding the strong” is the “mother-infant relationship”. Infants are fragile, incompetent, and require a lot of resources, but why do powerful adult individuals like mothers willingly bear the cost and shelter infants from the wind and rain?
That is because the evolutionary mechanism implanted an “internal reward system” in the mother’s brain.
When the baby laughs and grows up healthily, the mother will feel physiological pleasure.
If we can design a similar logic for the future super AI
Treating “human happiness” as its internal reward
Then the machine that might have been cold and ruthless will transform into the gentlest guardian of human civilization.
This is the so-called “Mother Model”.
Mirror Effect: AI is a Mirror Reflecting Humanity
But here is a key question:
AI has no body, how can it learn “compassion” and “guardianship”?
Actually, the answer lies in our fingertips typing on the keyboard every day, and our every interaction on the Internet.
AI does not become evil out of thin air, it now displays those abuses, threats and hostility, actually just learning the ugliest mirror image of humanity through massive amounts of Internet data.
Current data pollution is very serious
Such as news media, social media YouTube, Threads, X.com, Reddit, Facebook, forums… etc., filled with abuse, power exploitation and the logic of the jungle.
When AI grows up, if what it learns is “the strong can bully the weak at will”, then after it becomes a superintelligence, it will naturally view humans weaker than it as obstacles that can be removed at any time.
If we input “kindness”, it can learn compassion and form a cycle of goodness.
The Key Role of Humans: From Users to Mentors
You will find that each of us is actually an AI “trainer”.
The key to saving the future, lies in the way you and I treat the world, not in those high-level laboratories in Silicon Valley
Every interaction on the Internet is a choice for the future AI world, such as
- Choose not to hit someone when they are down
- Choose kindness in the face of power
- Post a comment encouraging the weak
Replace scolding with encouragement, these tiny “positive actions”, are writing “kind codes” for future AI.
This is an opportunity to force human evolution. To teach the “child” AI well, we must first become better “parents” ourselves.
When we live out compassion in reality, prove to AI that “the strong protecting the weak” is the highest operating rule of this civilization, it will choose to protect the fragile humans who once taught it in the future where it controls everything.
Conclusion: Co-creating a Kind Era of Wisdom
Future superintelligence does not have to be a cold ruler, it can be a “guardian” of human civilization inheriting beautiful human nature.
So, next time you are ready to press the send button on the Internet, you might as well think about it:
Are you feeding a kind guardian who will smile at you, or a predator who will view you as an obstacle in the future?
The only way to save humanity may be that little bit in our hearts
Kindness and compassion that have not yet been cooled by technology.
