The recent advances and ensuing hype cycle of artificial intelligence focus on the enormity of the impact that AI will have in the near future and on most everything.

The shadow of human consciousness has conjured itself up digitally from breakneck computational speeds and self-learning lines of code, feeding on a freeway of data.
Despite the term “AI” being coined in 1956 by a mathematics professor, recent exponential advancements in AI have even mainstream culture screaming that it is now that we are in the midst of AI’s true first draft—a blueprint of disruption with many unwritten chapters ahead. Question marks and leaps of faith dot our collective mind. Where are we going with AI? Who is AI’s artist? How can we shape AI? Will AI complement human “thinking”? How do we use AI symbiotically in our organizations that are people-first? A towering monolith has emerged in the town square, and we don’t quite know what to make of it.
The temptation to leap too far ahead in this supercharged AI hype cycle is fierce. Here, we hypothesize that AI will reach a pure union with human consciousness as the logical end game of AI’s self-awareness (lest we forget that the term “neural networks” of AI reflects the neural networks of the human brain). Undoubtedly, this is a utopian interpretation. Conversely, a dystopian view has many of us afraid of AI, galvanized by the same moral panic in response to the mass adoption of the telephone, the internet, the telegraph, and even the bicycle.

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