The superfluousness of AI @scienceandnonduality

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Highlight from - The Great AI Unraveling Series:
The Superfluity of AI: Honoring Our Nature and Remaining Humble

Artificial intelligence can help us write emails, organize information, and simplify parts of daily life.

But what happens when convenience becomes the only measure of progress?

In this conversation, Indigenous scholar, musician, and community organizer Lyla June invites us to look beyond AI's benefits and toward its deeper consequences. She reminds us that every AI system depends on real places, real resources, and real communities, from the extraction of minerals on Indigenous lands to the vast amounts of energy and water required to power data centers.

She also asks us to consider how these same technologies are becoming increasingly intertwined with surveillance and the military-industrial complex.

To remember that intelligence is not ours alone. That the Earth has always held wisdom beyond what we can engineer. And that our greatest responsibility is not simply to build more powerful tools, but to remain in right relationship with the living world.

🎥 Watch the full conversation on our webpage

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