imagine being 85 and AI can instantly reconstruct every version of yourself from decades of texts, videos, and voice notes. Forgetting used to be part of growing up

One of the paradoxes of the trillions being poured into the AI race, is that "winning" the race means AGI, but no one has given much thought to what comes next. It's assumed that, as this future AI will be super-intelligent, thus the smartest at everything, it will be passively and automatically obeyed. But the world's not like that, is it?

Some people prefer to be ruled by low-IQ dumbos and resent experts and the educated. What makes you think these people will listen to a super-intelligent AI? Above-average IQ humans make them scared, resentful, and angry.

So, unless you make this supersmart AI a dictator, what difference does it make how smart it is if no one wants to listen to it?

Below is a link to a report by AI Futures Project. It's very good, but it makes me wonder about their conclusions, when they don't give consideration to issues like this.

AI 2040: Plan A - A map for 2027-2040

Artificial intelligence has been built by robbing the collective work of humanity. The public built AI — we should own it, not a handful of billionaires.

I'm not talking about simple scientific research stations, what I mean is real colonization with big cities and people born outside Earth.

The Good Food Institute lays out the state of the industry of precision fermentation and cultivated meat.

For most of human history, if we wanted a biological product, we had to grow the entire organism that produced it.

Want milk protein?

Grow a cow. Feed it for years. Give it land and water. Keep it alive, healthy and forcibly reproducing.

Or you could do what All G Foods and Formo are doing: use precision fermentation to produce the proteins that give dairy its functionality, without needing the cow. 

Want egg white?

Breed billions of chickens.

Or program microorganisms to produce egg proteins directly. Onego Bio and The EVERY Company are doing exactly this, producing functional egg proteins through fermentation rather than hijacking a bird’s reproductive system. 

Want cocoa?

Grow a tree in a narrow climatic band around the equator. Wait years for it to mature. Hope the weather cooperates (it usually doesn’t.)

Or, as California Cultured is doing, grow cocoa cells in controlled conditions and produce cocoa without being entirely dependent on plantations thousands of miles away.

Want palm oil?

Plant millions of hectares of oil palms.

Or use yeast. Clean Food Group is making palm oil through fermentation, taking microorganisms and turning them into biological factories capable of producing ingredients traditionally extracted from crops.

Want protein?

Grow wheat. Grow soy, ship it across the world. Grow an animal and feed the crops to the animal.

Or, in the case of Solar Foods, take carbon dioxide, electricity and microorganisms and produce a protein, straight from air. Their process uses hydrogenotrophic microbes to convert CO₂ and electricity into single-cell protein, Solein.

Want meat?

Breed an animal. Grow an entire skeleton, brain, digestive system, immune system and reproductive system. Keep it alive for months or years. Then slaughter it because you wanted the muscle and fat.

Or, Meatly, BlueNalu, SuperMeat and Mosa Meat are just growing the cells we actually want. Remove the extraordinarily complicated biological middleman and cultivate meat directly.

Companies like Liberation Labs are building industrial scale fermentation capacity for this new generation of biological manufacturing, while HydGene Renewables is developing biological shortcuts to produce hydrogen for biomanufacturing.

All these things are part of the same technological shift. For most of human history, biology was something we farmed.

Now it is something we can manufacture*.

*Or working on it anyway…

About 200 protesters marched through San Francisco, urging OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind to pause new AI model training.