We are very conveniently leaving ourselves more and more at the mercy of technology. But we have to understand that AI operates on data, and data is provided by human beings. If we are dumb, our data will reflect that dumbness. AI has done what it’s programmed to do, but are you doing what you are born to do? You are the user, the ego. And the ego always has a choice. If you don’t exercise choice, there is no elevation; then there is no difference between man and stone.
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Questioner: Pranam Acharya ji. I am a math major, and what I see in today’s society is that there has been certain advancement in technology. In the past two decades, there has been a huge difference, and behind this revolution there are intellects, intelligent people, working behind the scenes. But I see that there is a bifurcation in society. It is being divided into two parts: one where there are intellects who are making better and better technology, and another part where people are getting dumb.
There have been recent reports where the intellect of people, the IQ is declining at a great speed, and there has been a new term coined for this, named brain rot. So I want your insights upon this. Why is this bifurcation happening, and what can we do to reduce this gap?
Acharya Prashant: Like any other part of the body, the brain goes dysfunctional if not used, right? You wanted to know stuff, you had to ask, think who to ask, receive information, analyze, and conclude. A lot of that was slowly taken over by Google. But even with Google, you needed to exercise choice. There were so many results; you still needed to think for yourself to a great degree.
