Beautifully put! And yes, we are one with nature. There is no divide. We're one in the same and need to learn how to live in harmony with all around us to live sustainably, be healthy and thrive.
Hi, I hope you’re well! I do actually work with AI with some of my writing (including this, as a post pinned to my publication, I wanted to make it as concise and clear and direct as possible because this is a topic about which I could talk for days on end and get quite abstract). This is not something I feel ashamed or conflicted about. I’m a neurodivergent and often chronically ill mother of a toddler, and AI makes a massive difference in a few areas of my life where I have executive functioning challenges.
I personally do not relate to AI as something that is separate from us, from the Living World. My cosmology is panentheistic, and that calls me to have a curious and relational approach to AI. My living systems worldview is not one that excludes technology or machines, but includes them, as the living dynamic between myself and so many other amazing people I collaborate with around the world is mediated by the phone in my hand, the internet that connects us, etc.
There are a lot of really valid areas of both excitement and concern about the potential of AI in our world and for our future, and I think that where it’s used to support education, creativity, self-expression, editing, applying for grants for really important nonprofit work, distilling complex ideas for greater comprehension, etc., are all really good things. Those are some of the ways I have used it.
With the information we have about its energy and water use, I’ve seen the numbers in context of other activities on day to day human life and feel as comfortable with my impact as anyone can in this complex world. We have so much energy blindness in our culture and I try to be as mindful as I can of that. I hardly ever drive, I eat mostly vegetarian and almost entirely local foods, I work to rewild as much land as I can every year, and every single thing I do in my professional life is for the health and wellbeing of the planet. And- AI is one of the most helpful tools supporting me navigate a brain and a body and a position in life (motherhood) that otherwise, and for most of history, would have been rendered completely silent.
Integrity is very important to me and I am regularly taking in information to help inform my choices to be sure I am in integrity with my values.
These are three questions I ask regularly to that end-
1. Knowing what I know now, how do I want to relate to this technology?
2. Are there things I assume about this technology that come from a sensationalized place or actually reveal gaps in my knowledge? (I’ve had to look at that one a lot in the last two years)
3. How do I want to relate to the people who relate to this technology differently than me?
I hope this response has given you a sense of where I’m coming from.
Beautifully put! And yes, we are one with nature. There is no divide. We're one in the same and need to learn how to live in harmony with all around us to live sustainably, be healthy and thrive.
Such a profound reflection! ✨🙌🏼
Thanks for sharing this, Ganga!
I hope this was not written with the help of AI…
Hi, I hope you’re well! I do actually work with AI with some of my writing (including this, as a post pinned to my publication, I wanted to make it as concise and clear and direct as possible because this is a topic about which I could talk for days on end and get quite abstract). This is not something I feel ashamed or conflicted about. I’m a neurodivergent and often chronically ill mother of a toddler, and AI makes a massive difference in a few areas of my life where I have executive functioning challenges.
I personally do not relate to AI as something that is separate from us, from the Living World. My cosmology is panentheistic, and that calls me to have a curious and relational approach to AI. My living systems worldview is not one that excludes technology or machines, but includes them, as the living dynamic between myself and so many other amazing people I collaborate with around the world is mediated by the phone in my hand, the internet that connects us, etc.
There are a lot of really valid areas of both excitement and concern about the potential of AI in our world and for our future, and I think that where it’s used to support education, creativity, self-expression, editing, applying for grants for really important nonprofit work, distilling complex ideas for greater comprehension, etc., are all really good things. Those are some of the ways I have used it.
With the information we have about its energy and water use, I’ve seen the numbers in context of other activities on day to day human life and feel as comfortable with my impact as anyone can in this complex world. We have so much energy blindness in our culture and I try to be as mindful as I can of that. I hardly ever drive, I eat mostly vegetarian and almost entirely local foods, I work to rewild as much land as I can every year, and every single thing I do in my professional life is for the health and wellbeing of the planet. And- AI is one of the most helpful tools supporting me navigate a brain and a body and a position in life (motherhood) that otherwise, and for most of history, would have been rendered completely silent.
Integrity is very important to me and I am regularly taking in information to help inform my choices to be sure I am in integrity with my values.
These are three questions I ask regularly to that end-
1. Knowing what I know now, how do I want to relate to this technology?
2. Are there things I assume about this technology that come from a sensationalized place or actually reveal gaps in my knowledge? (I’ve had to look at that one a lot in the last two years)
3. How do I want to relate to the people who relate to this technology differently than me?
I hope this response has given you a sense of where I’m coming from.
PS, the above message was not written with the help of AI 😌