The think tank 2050withHumans has started publishing some ideas on how humans will stay relevant in the era of AI until 2050 and beyond.

One can view the relative article at https://www.2050withhumans.com/post/2050-with-humans-what-humans-do-not-do-is-what-defines-them.

In a nutshell, this article entertains the idea that what defines us as humans is not what we do and what we think of, but our ability to not think and not do anything.

As machines have surpassed us in anything manual, they will do so in anything intellectual as well, but only in things related to thinking in a structured way. True creative thinking is something totally different and it entails the ability to think without assumptions, without any input whatsoever. In a sense we, as humans, can utilise nothingness and create art or pave new paths by just sitting alone in silence and thinking of nothing.

And unlike AI that always answers something back, we have the ability to say nothing and yet convey meaning in ways a computer can not even comprehend.

A new era is upon us and we should rethink our identity if we want to stay relevant.