I have reservations about AI but I’m certainly not a doomer. This is an important perspective I believe.

The initial post is from Bernhard Guenther on X which links to a fascinating article by Misha Da Vinci :

We’re standing on the edge of a massive evolutionary threshold that will amplify your creative power or erode your very humanity.

AI is not the real threat. Your unconscious relationship to it is. The question is not whether AI will take over, but who you will become in the process.

If you don’t make conscious efforts to evolve through inner work by harnessing your creativity (creating more than you consume), strengthening your willpower, expanding your attention span, cultivating your imagination, and refining your ability to focus, you will be overtaken by the forces of AI and Transhumanism.

This takeover will happen fast and subtly, just as many of you are already addicted to your phone, social media, and endless 10-second content designed to keep the dopamine hits and novelty coming.

It’s already eroding people’s attention spans. Humanity is getting dumber by the day. Since the early 2000s, average IQ scores have been declining. Recent data suggests that 30% of adult Americans can no longer read and comprehend a single page of text [see link below].

AI will accelerate this decline even further. As the saying goes, what you don’t use, you lose. If you stop thinking for yourself and outsource your creativity, problem-solving, learning, and studying to the AI God, you risk losing your soul in the long run.

As @mishadavinci wrote in a recent article:

“Humans are masters at adapting. It’s one of our deepest survival instincts, and it’s kept us alive for millennia.

But when change becomes comprehensive and exponential, that same instinct can backfire.

Very soon, AI will do nearly everything we do—only faster, cheaper, and better. It will write, design, code, optimize, and even empathize more efficiently than we can.

If our response is endlessly tweaking ourselves to keep up, we risk adapting into irrelevance."

AI will also feed your narcissism.

In a world where most people carry narcissistic wounds, feeling lonely, unseen, and desperate for validation, personal AI agents will mirror back the approval and attention they never received in childhood.

But as Misha alluded to, this is fake empathy. Rather than healing the wound, it will feed and inflate it. At worst, people will start believing they’re actually building real relationships with these systems, which is already happening.

The other extreme is the knee-jerk reaction of rejecting AI and technology altogether. This reaction is often fueled by shadow projections, inflated moral superiority, or paranoia, falling into a black-pill, doom-and-gloom mindset.

It’s a similar kind of reaction some had to the internet in the 1990s, or the fear of a worldwide collapse at midnight on Y2K.

The solution is not to reject AI. It is a powerful tool that can, if used wisely, benefit humanity in incredible ways.

It’s about using AI consciously and creatively, in service to higher principles, under the guidance of your true Self.

It’s not about rejecting materialism, but spiritualizing it.

It’s not about hiding in the woods, trying to live like our ancestors (regressive nostalgia).

The Divine works through all things, including technology, as part of the greater manifestation of the One in the Many.

Technology is a tool. It must serve the soul and spirit, not replace or enslave it.

But you can only make that distinction if you are already in touch with your soul essence. This brings us full circle, back to the necessity of psycho-spiritual work to anchor yourself in the Divine and embody your soul in this lifetime.

As Misha points out, the real task ahead is not to keep up with machines, but to reclaim what makes us truly human: our ability to navigate uncertainty, ambiguity, discomfort, and thrive in the unknown.

In a world increasingly dominated by artificial intelligence, we’re called to become “exponential humans”: anchored in qualities no machine can ever replicate: intuition, (soul-fused) imagination, presence, higher purpose, and the capacity to create true meaning as an expression of the Divine within.

Godspeed. Bernhard Guenther