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What would Nietzsche say about AI replacing humans

If we aren’t willing to even let go of our crafts, do you really think we will let go of our lives?

Adesh Acharya
4 min readJul 19, 2023
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There are two ways to guess what the 19th-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche — arguably the best thinker of human existence ever — would have to say about the Artificial Intelligence/Superintelligence takeover.

The first way is to hear what the most popular superstar (and for some the best thinker) in the world right now — Mr. ChatGPT — would have to guess:

Here is the prompt to GPT and its reply:

Consequence of humanity’s own intellectual creations, reflecting our will to power???

That’s not intelligent. That’s just seeming intelligent!

ChatGPT does make sense in the ‘affirm their unique potential’ part. We really need to start focusing on our unique potential.

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