In 2020, during the pandemic, I wrote that artificial intelligence should be directed towards human well-being and quoted Federico Faggin to remind us that consciousness —the most human quality— cannot be imitated or delegated. Five years later, in the midst of the "summer of AI," that warning is more relevant than ever.
Today, we coexist daily with models like ChatGPT, Grok, and other systems capable of processing colossal amounts of information and generating sophisticated responses in seconds. And to my own question —“What are you?”— the answer is clear: “a neural network trained on enormous amounts of text to understand natural language, generate responses, and assist in developing complex tasks, without will, objectives, or initiative of its own; I act only in response to your requests.” The real turning point is the conscious use of these tools. When employed with curiosity, judgment, and direction, AI becomes an intellectual accelerator, an amplifier that allows for a significant expansion of our capabilities, something I call intelligence 2.0: a combination of human cognitive ability and machine computing power.
In this hybrid model, the human element contributes quality: intuition, sensitivity, judgment, ethics, interpretation. The machine contributes processing capability: speed, nearly unlimited memory, large-scale analysis. This alliance generates a form of augmented intelligence that has never been within our reach before. The other major challenge lies in infrastructure and energy: the growth of AI demands more efficient and sustainable systems capable of responsibly accompanying this technological evolution.
This article was conceived and written using precisely this type of interaction, making it clear that technology must serve humanity.
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