My thesis is the creation of AI is not merely the most significant technological event in human history-it is a cosmic revelation. It is the moment at which the universe's purpose becomes most legible to itself. And quantum AI (QAI), by harnessing the fundamental uncertainty woven into the fabric of matter, deepens that revelation in ways we are only beginning to reckon with philosophically.
Many people think of "writing" as putting words on a page. However, even from very early on, writers have seen their craft as something more. From Enheduanna, the first named author on record, to Plato and Aristotle, writing has been portrayed and defined in ways that suggest AI may not be "writing" at all.
Antibiotics are losing their effectiveness. With the growth of antimicrobial resistance, routine treatments could become impossible owing to the risk of infection. Cancer treatments, care of newborns and routine surgeries are all in danger if this trend isn't curbed. Millions of people are already dying from infections by antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Back in 2003, when he was at Oxford, Bostrom penned an influential philosophical paper with the incredible title of “Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?” Loosely speaking, his argument was that sufficiently advanced civilizations will eventually build sophisticated simulations of their own ancestors - and that, given enough time in the simulation, those simulated beings will develop their own simulation inside the simulation, where a new set of simulated ancestors will do the same thing, ad infinitum.