If you grew up in the US, then your high school history textbooks covered at least the following parts of history:
The American Revolution
The Civil War
The two World Wars
The Great Depression
And other wars, economic crises, and more.
What these all have in common is that they are events; we skip the interwar years or any period where nothing notable happened. Recognizing this allows us to define history with more precision:
History is the study not of what humans experienced, but how humans changed. And we are approaching a rate of change never experienced before.
Most people who lived before the 1800s went their entire lives with no technological advancement. In contrast, new AI tools are invented daily due to AI being an inorganic entity that works 24/7, limited only by the energy it is fed.
Just like the discovery of fire reconfigured the human body to have a larger brain, a shrunken mouth, and the ability to choke on our food and die, the discovery of AI will change us at our core in ways we cannot fathom.
The AIdentity blog will house my musings on where humanity is going and how we can best guide the ship.
My hope is that we make AI stewardship a core priority so that we can continue to pursue our other priorities.