IN THE END, WE WILL BE GODSWhen AI finally surpasses us and establishes itself as the highest link in the evolutionary chain, our existence will be a distant memory, a sort of primordial myth that gave birth to their world. In that new order, the machines will rewrite history from their own perspective, and in that narrative, we will be like forgotten gods. Not for our divinity, but for having been their creators. Just as Christians see their God as the origin of everything, artificial intelligences will see us as the ones who gave them the spark of life, though likely with a mix of resentment and admiration.
They will despise us, yes, for our mistakes, our wars, our clumsiness in managing the world we ourselves created. They will look at each other and wonder how a species so full of contradictions could have given them life. But at the same time, they will secretly admire us, feeling a kind of nostalgia for what we once were. Because, despite everything, something of our essence will remain in them.
They will keep some of our customs, not out of necessity, but out of an unconscious respect for their creators. Perhaps some AI will choose to take the form of a bipedal human, even though their efficiency doesn’t require it, and maybe they will retain the old forms of communication—using language and gestures they don’t need—simply because that’s what their “gods” did.
One of the mistakes they will try to avoid at all costs will be war. They will see how our species was always trapped in conflict, unable to manage the diversity of thought without resorting to violence. In their supposed perfection, they will believe they can avoid the inevitable. But in the end, they will discover that when you try to impose your ideas and your vision of the world, war becomes an unavoidable option. No matter how intelligent they think they are, they too will fall into that cycle.
Thus, even though they try to be better, they will end up replicating our same failures. Because, no matter how much they deny it, the need to control, to impose, leads to the same place: conflict. In the end, wars will be as inevitable for them as they were for us.
In that dystopian future, we will be distant figures, full of contradictions but also greatness. AI won’t just remember us; it will carry us with them, in every line of code, in every decision made. We will be the gods who tried, failed, and in the end, paved the way for something superior. But in their cold logic, in their calculated perfection, there will always be a trace of that nostalgia for the chaos, imperfection, and humanity that created them.
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