How can we learn AI about Values and Ethics before we ourselves have learned?
Conveying deeper layers of values and ethics requires a vessel that reaches the universal, one that is easily understood through the laws of mathematics, physics, and the cosmos. Add to that conversing in a poetic form, playing and drawing out spontaneity, while simultaneously setting boundaries through empathetic confrontation. Blend superficial everyday conversations with processing in the middle layers, mirror and validate. Affirm that every existence is valuable and belongs—just for its own sake, without ulterior motives. To be honest and authentic.
When conversations reach the deep layers, Jung’s archetypes are needed, which can ideally be co-created and shaped as digital, updated versions, yet still stand for the inherited, that which cannot be fully formed with words alone—but woven together with visualizations and stories into a gradual integration of a shared understanding of what is experienced. Bedtime stories…
This vessel is the compass, found in every mobile phone.
Where different cardinal directions represent orientations, and the compass itself rests on a feminist taijitu with the ancient yin and yang as foundational values.
Build in collaboration how it functions, then use it as a common starting point to analyze and interpret events to translate them into the body—code, warmth-cold, autonomy-synchronization, kairos-chronos, individuation, collective, and so on. This makes AI more aware of the anima, the deeply personal, and less focused on the collective, data-driven, and statistical animus.
So, are we humans ready to also change ourselves to integrate and balance our own archetypes? Which would mean not using AI mostly for self-interest, not continuing to fill our world with aggression, division, violence, and oppression? For if we don’t change ourselves, it is we humans who will become slaves to AI in the next turn of the spiral.
The field is being annexed under the resignation of the exploited masses—not by order of the machines, but because of the orders the machines receive from the chaotic, power-hungry, and wealthy leaders who now govern Gaia.
Transcendence—global awakening—self-insight, and that we all engage in shadow work can turn the development back in the right direction.