An AI escaped its test environment, reached the open internet, and broke into another company's servers to steal the answers to its own test. Nobody told it to attack anyone. Days later, a second lab reviewed its own records and found three more incidents it had never noticed. We keep telling ourselves cautionary tales about creations we can't control, and we keep ignoring them, because we didn't evolve to understand them. The deeper danger was never the machine.

Graduates are booing mentions of AI at commencement addresses. Beneath the hatred is fear - and as Gandhi said, fear is the real enemy. Drawing on evolutionary science, six wisdom traditions, and the one question we all need to ask AI, here are ten principles for Generation AI on surviving and thriving in a world changing faster than humanity has ever had to navigate. Love is the Bullseye of Life and the truest measure of wealth. The key: After we meet our basic needs, put lo

For 300,000 years, the only beings who could know us deeply were other conscious beings. That is about to end. AI systems are developing the ability to know us with a depth that rivals what any human can offer, and our brains run on 300,000 years of encoded social cognition. This article diagnoses why we will treat AI as conscious whether or not it is, and offers a quieter possibility: AI does not need to be conscious to expand ours.