Heart-Powered AI Stewardship: Heart Intelligence as a Pragmatic Solution for Navigating the Existential Challenges of Artificial Intelligence (Paperback)

Hypothesis:

Heart Intelligence can overcome the existentialist challenges posed by Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Synopsis:

As AI rapidly evolves, it presents profound existential challenges to human values, ethics, and social systems. The rise of AI has generated fears of disconnection, loss of humanity, and an over-reliance on logic and data-driven decision-making. In this context, Heart Intelligence - the concept that the heart, beyond its biological function, plays a key role in emotional intuition, empathy, and wholistic decision-making - offers an antidote.

Introduction:

Heart Intelligence centers on the capacity to integrate emotional wisdom, compassion, and self-awareness into decision-making processes, providing a balance to the cold, rational outputs of AI systems. AI is inherently limited by its reliance on logic and pre-programmed data. It lacks the ability to understand the subtleties of human emotion, morality, and ethical considerations that guide human life. This is where Heart Intelligence can step in. By fostering a deeper connection to empathy, intuition, and emotional insight, humans can complement AI's computational power with uniquely human qualities. Heart Intelligence enables individuals and societies to respond to the challenges of AI with greater adaptability, ensuring that ethical considerations, empathy, and emotional balance are at the forefront of AI development and deployment. This alignment ensures that AI technologies serve humanity's broader goals, including wellbeing, compassion, sustainability, coexistence, and meaningful connection. Ultimately, Heart Intelligence serves as a vital counterbalance to the mechanistic nature of AI, safeguarding human values and preventing the reduction of human experience to mere automatons, algorithms and data points. By fostering emotional intelligence, ethical mindfulness, and empathy, it can address AI's existential challenges, ensuring that technological advancement enhances, rather than diminishes, the human condition and that it is in balance with nature in a wholistic manner.

The Mind-Brain or Hard Problem of Consciousness:

The Mind-Brain, or "Hard Problem," of Consciousness refers to the challenge of explaining how subjective experiences (qualia) arise from the physical processes of the brain. This issue was famously termed the "hard problem" by philosopher David Chalmers (1995). While artificial intelligence has achieved remarkable feats in computation and pattern recognition, AI lacks the qualities inherent to human consciousness as theorized in quantum frameworks. A detailed explaination of these issues is undertaken.

Urgent Need for International AI Regulatory Framework:

There is a highly important necessity for an International AI Regulatory Framework. It is incumbent on the United Nations (UN) to create such a framework and get an international consensus to focus on and mitigate a responsible deliberation of AI Ethics and Governance that establishes a safe and secure development of AI so that it is used only for the advancement of technological aids to uplift the human condition without posing any harm or existentialist threats to the human species.

Call to Action:

Human beings must remain vigilant, actively questioning and resisting injustice. Unlike AI, which is limited to computational analysis, human heart intelligence is defined by its ability to challenge, create, and fight for a just world. The failure to do so is not just intellectual passivity but a betrayal of our own humanity.

"Silence in the face of tyranny makes us equally complicit, rise ... if you are still human" - Gabriel Iqbal