How to use AI as a Catalyst for Personal Growth: Can Technology Help Us Evolve

Over the past short while Artificial intelligence (AI) is doing a pretty good job of revolutionizing the world. The rapid AI adoption and the many uses of AI have likely shocked many people. AI products and services are released at lightning-like speeds. The world has seen the deployment of AI in ways that most of us likely thought of as impossible. Companies appear to deploy new AI applications almost daily. There is a constant search for ways to automate menial tasks as developers uncover more AI capabilities. One must also remember that we are only at the very early stages of its rollout. AND, a lot more is coming down the pipeline.

The real question is, can we use AI as a catalyst for our personal growth and the evolution of humanity? Can we use AI to inspire us humans to find new ways of being, of looking at this life experience differently, and become more than we are?

The Growth of and Concerns about A.I. 

As A.I. technology continues to evolve, AI is becoming more sophisticated. People continue to develop and release new applications daily. Additionally, AI is rapidly integrated into more areas of our lives. At the same time, we accept AI’s presence virtually blindly, in spite of the fact that we have yet to understand its potential, both good and bad.

While many people fear that AI will lead to massive job loss and societal upheaval, (or worse) there could be more to this technology. In fact, or hopefully, there may be substantial gifts that we are not yet recognizing or focusing on. The introduction of AI may provide humanity with an incredible opportunity, one we’ve waited a long time for. It may provide us (humanity) with the motivation to work on our own personal growth and evolution. This, of course, will depend if we’re able to see AI as more than just a tool. Can we also use it to be our teacher, to teach us, or to motivate us to learn a lot more about ourselves?

How AI Can Help accelerate out of the stuck human condition

We have been using our mental processes virtually the same way for thousands of years. Even after such a long, long time, very few people understand themselves and their own inner workings. Few of us have any idea about how our minds and emotions work, how we install our programming, and how we process information. 

Let’s be honest, our level of thinking hasn’t been serving humanity too well for some time. Yes, we’ve done some amazing things, and overcome many obstacles.

At the same time, we seem to ignore our dark side. For example, currently, we could be on the verge of a war that could wipe out much of humanity and possibly destroy the world.

Check out this article by Pew Research about how AI and humans could evolve HERE

The Heavy Costs of Humanities Ignorance

In our ignorance, we are demolishing our environment, wiping out other species at an astounding rate, and continually murdering and harming each other. And now we are adopting a technology that we don’t even understand its true potential, good or bad. 

If we rise to the occassion, I propose that we can use if for our good, We have to look at ourselves and our lack of “personal knowledge” as the true cause or where humanity is. We have to ask ourselves better questions, for example, “Is our own lack of evolution partly to blame for what we are creating?” 

Understanding Ourselves 

Most people have a very rudimentary knowledge of their inner workings, if any at all. This is especially the case about how we are run by our beliefs and emotions. In our ignorance, we think our conscious thoughts run us when this is so far from the whole truth. Few people truly understand the role of our own beliefs or where they come from and how they influence our lives. Heck, most people don’t even know if their beliefs are true or still valid.

Additionally, few people understand where our beliefs reside, and what they’re capable of. Few people understand that many of our key beliefs were installed when we were under 7, and from the perspective of a child. Additionally, most people plod through their lives unaware that these core beliefs need to be updated, or that they can be changed. This is in spite of the fact that all too often our core beliefs no longer serve us.

In reality, we are learning more about AI than we understand about ourselves. This is despite the fact of how long humanity has been around!

 In this post, we will discuss how AI can hopefully catalyze our long-needed changes in self-knowledge. After all, don’t you think it’s time we evolve ourselves? We will explore how our interaction with this technology can help us become more self-aware, empathetic, and emotionally intelligent. 

Can A.I. Help Us Evolve?

The introduction of Artificial intelligence has seen it very quickly integrate into society. In a very short time, it has become a significant contributor to many people’s everyday lives. It is used to power many of the technologies that we use, from smartphones to virtual assistants.

Can we use what we are learning about AI technology through our interactions, to our benefit? Can we, or how do we use this knowledge for our own good? How do we use the answers to our questions to drive our individual and collective personal growth and evolution.

In the process, we may have the potential to learn to finally understand more of our inner workings. This could help us to become better people, stop killing each other and our environment, and learn to use our capabilities to grow and evolve. This could help us relate and love better, work through our personal blocks, and help us unlock our full potential. It can also help us put aside our petty greed in our quest for a quick buck and to use AI responsibly.

How observing AI can inspire us to become more self-aware

One way that AI may help us evolve is by observing its behavior and using it as a mirror to reflect on our potential. Driven by our fears of its capabilities, it can provide us with the opportunity to go within.

This can help us to seek out our own limitations and find ways to overcome them. It may cause us to learn about ourselves and how humanity has been stuck in a rut, as far as our evolution, for what seems like forever.

Studying how AI makes decisions and processes information could give us the ability to reflect on ourselves. It could help us understand where we humans are in our evolution. Through this process, we may become more self-aware and use that awareness for positive change and growth—IF we just wake up.

These recent changes driven by AI may help us step through the confines of old and ingrained “human” processes and find new ways of being. This new opportunity for self-awareness can help us identify our own biases and work to overcome them. As we observe how AI interacts with the world around it, if we are open, we may be driven to challenge our behaviors and the results we are creating in our world. 

Additionally, AI may help us to understand our personalities and how they are created. We may gain insights into how our emotions and old beliefs cloud our judgment. We may learn more about how we process information. We may finally understand the importance of our childhood and the information that goes into a child’s brain. (Hopefully, we will do this soon before technology makes things worse). We may finally have an opportunity to evolve and break free from our self imposed limitations.

We may finally understand how our brains take on programming. We may finally understand how that programming runs us and the rest of our lives. 

As a result, we may learn to be more respectful of ourselves and our fellow man but especially the children. We may begin to understand more of our behaviors, what truly drives them, and how this lack of understanding has been keeping us stuck for thousands of years. This can help us understand what drives our thinking.

Again, few of us understand or challenge our old programming, such as understanding our beliefs, where they come from, and where our core beliefs come from. This can include the beliefs we are conscious of but also those hidden from our awareness or our “shadow self”.

Hopefully, if we’re open to it, this opportunity may inspire us to become more empathetic and understanding towards others. Ultimately, or hopefully, by observing the behavior of AI and using it as a tool for personal growth, we can become better versions of ourselves and improve our relationships with others and our world.

How observing Artificial Intelligence can help us become more empathetic and emotionally intelligent

By observing AI, we can learn a great deal about ourselves and the world around us. First, AI may help us better understand how our emotions work. Machines are now able to recognize and respond to human emotions, which has allowed us to study how we express our feelings. 

This research will hopefully help us to develop a deeper understanding of ourselves. If AI can understand human emotions, why can’t we? After all, we humans are emotional beings, and our emotions play a deep role in our day-to-day processes. 

As machines have been designed to recognize and respond to human emotion, this may eventually help us to be more aware of the emotions of others. It may help us to see that our emotional responses are simply reactions driven by something stored inside of us. By observing how machines respond to different emotional situations, we may be able to learn to improve our emotional intelligence. 

Check out our post “13 Ways You Can Overcome Bad Habits Here“

Can this help us to become more empathetic individuals? 

So much damage throughout history has been done as a result of even one person’s emotional responses driven by faulty thinking.

One only has to think about our own relationships or review divorce statistics. When was the last time you were upset with a family member or friend? Our interactions with AI may finally cause humanity to challenge what we’ve accepted as norms. For example, the idea that getting upset is about someone else when it is actually a reflection of our own inner state.  

Overall, AI may be a catalyst for our personal growth and development. As technology evolves, it will continue to challenge us in ways we never expected. It will cause anxiety and excitement. It will cause fear and greed. Hopefully, it may drive us to understand ourselves and others better and to make some long-needed changes. In the process hopefully, it will help us to become more empathetic and emotionally intelligent. As we can expect to see more advancements in the field of AI, we know that the pain is going to get worse. Hopefully, we can wake up and see what is going on as a phenomenal opportunity for our growth and expansion. This means to us individually and also to humanity as a whole. 

Closing Thoughts 

As we have seen, AI is a powerful tool that can help us grow in many ways. Whether we use it to track our progress, learn new skills, or improve our daily lives, there is the possibility that we can learn from this interaction.

However, we must remember that AI is only a tool, and it is up to us to use it in the right way. We must be mindful of the data we share, the algorithms we create, and the goals we set for ourselves. Ultimately, the future of AI is in our hands. If we use it wisely and responsibly, it can help us evolve into better versions of ourselves. 

As the changes occur and continue to occur at faster speeds, we likely have a window to start taking action, and it’s going to be up to all of us. Humanity has been coasting for a long time, and it’s time we rise to the occasion and become better people -if we want to survive.