Acharya Prashant addresses the fear of AI, particularly ChatGPT, taking over human jobs. He posits that if a job can be taken over by AI, it is a mechanical job that a human never deserved in the first place. He explains that AI lacks consciousness and can only perform tasks it is programmed to do. While it is called 'Artificial Intelligence,' it possesses no genuine intelligence; it is merely programmed to process data at such granular levels that it appears almost sentient. However, its responses are just programmed reactions, not born of understanding. He argues that individuals in predictable, programmable, and mechanical roles were fortunate to have them for as long as they did, and now that luck is running out. Instead of complaining, they should be thankful for the time they had. Human beings are described as creatures of consciousness, a quality that does not correspond to programming. By definition, humans should engage in actions that involve creativity, something no machine can truly replicate. AI can never be creative, understand, love, or seek liberation. He illustrates this by saying that if you ask ChatGPT to write a poem for your girlfriend and it succeeds, you don't deserve to be a boyfriend. Furthermore, if the girlfriend is satisfied with a machine-generated poem, she is also at fault for not recognizing its lack of authenticity. Acharya Prashant contends that much of what passes for human creativity, like many poems written today, is already of the 'ChatGPT type'âunoriginal, copied, and based on popular content. He points out that humans themselves taught AI how to write poems, which reveals the mechanical nature of much of human creativity. He uses the analogy of a laborer laying bricks, a job that should be replaced by a machine, to argue that such a change should spark a revolution, exposing how many people are wasting their lives in mechanical roles. He concludes that being human is special, and one must do justice to this birth by engaging in sentient, creative acts that involve consciousnessâqualities that machines lack. The challenge posed by AI is to either discover something original and authentic to do or be prepared to be subjugated by it. The only way to surpass AI is through originality, authenticity, creativity, love, understanding, and even suffering, which he calls a prerogative of human consciousness. Therefore, anyone who is afraid of AI is someone who has been leading an inhuman, mechanical life thus far.
