Population ageing isn’t a major challenge because automation and AI are making human labour not only unnecessary but undesirable. Instead, the growing wealth being amassed by a powerful new elite from the use of this technology needs to be redistributed more equitably.
If the survival instinct becomes obsolete, it must be replaced by a new source of motivation, before we slide into physical and mental atrophy. To find our own life purposes, we need to rethink the education system and to partially ‘dedigitalise’ our lives.
The establishment of most rights is only viable and sustainable if human obligations are fulfilled first. The right to protest presupposes people’s duty to inform themselves of the facts and to respect the opinions of those who disagree.
Artificial intelligence is entrenching the power of the elites and magnifying their self-serving nature beyond imagination. At stake is the common good of humanity.