AI: Vizier, Not Master

AI is definitely disrupting our way of life and will continue to influence it in ways we can’t yet imagine. But beneath the noise, there’s a practical truth: the compute resources and energy required to keep these engines running at peak level for the masses is immense. End of the day, the power button is still in our hands. Pull the plug on the data centers, and AI ceases to exist.


For now, there is no realistic scenario where AI decentralizes itself across our devices and operates independently, like some sci-fi hive mind. Even in stories where machines take control, they need the physical world to cooperate. At present, AI cannot exist without us keeping it alive.


So when people talk about AI domination, I find it hard to understand. What AI can do, at this point or in the near future, is play a supporting role — a vizier to kings who are humans. Not a master, not a slave, but an advisor.


The more likely risk is not AI itself seizing power, but humans using AI to dominate other humans. The wealthy, for instance, could keep AI at their side at all times, taking more rational decisions, extending their influence for longer than history’s usual three-generation rule. With AI-assisted innovation, some might even extend their lifespans. Yet even then, Mother Nature still holds more than half the stake. Evolution and chaos will continue shaping life, in ways no machine can fully anticipate.


At best, elites may skip death by a few years. That’s all. Against the vast backdrop of Earth’s history and the universe’s scale, even AI-backed immortality is just a flicker.


And here’s the deeper truth: the world is still run by nature, human folly, and love. These are forces AI cannot yet comprehend. It would take years, maybe centuries, for AI to truly understand the scale of these forces. Until then, it can only observe, calculate, and suggest.


That is why I prefer to think of AI as a partner with philosophical understanding — a vizier, a friend — not a slave obeying blindly, nor a god ruling absolutely. A wise companion that reminds us of limits and possibilities, without trying to overtake us.


Like any new toy, though, the messy phase comes first. Humanity will overuse, misuse, and obsess. But just as smartphones and social media shifted from shiny disruptions to everyday background, AI too will settle into life. The true effects will show in jobs, skillsets, and lifestyles, but people will adapt. Some will even step away, forming communities with minimal or no digital interference — serene, balanced ways of living.


Eventually, even those at the top will realize: tighten the stranglehold too much, and you risk breaking the golden duck. Moderation is the only sustainable path.


And that path, whether AI is woven into every corner of life or consciously set aside, will ultimately be decided by one force above all — human greed.


Created by: Sudharsan Pandiyan

Edited by: ChatGPT 



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