Impromptu: Amplifying Our Humanity Through AI machines will lead to a loss of empathy, creativity, and other qualities that make us uniquely human. - Others are excited about the prospect of enhancing human capabilities through technology. They envision a future in which humans merge with machines to become smarter, stronger, and healthier. - A third group of people seem to be more ambivalent about the idea of technology altering humanity. They argue that humans have always evolved and adapted in response to new challenges, and that technology is just another step in that process. - Finally, I observe some people who are skeptical of the entire conversation. They argue that the notion of “becoming more or less human” is a false dichotomy, and that the important question isn’t whether technol- ogy will make us more or less human, but rather how it will change the ways in which we interact with one another and the world around us. Reid: Could all four of these perspectives be true? GPT-4: Yes, I believe that they could all have some truth to them. Human beings are complex, and there is no single answer to the question of how technology will impact humanity. It seems likely that different people will experience and interpret the changes in differ- ent ways. Reid: OK, so technology can be a tool to help us be more human, a threat to our humanity, or the core of who we already are—and this can change from situation to sit- uation. Do you see patterns of how those three ideas of technology and humanity have been defined over time? GPT-4: Throughout history, people have often defined technology in relation to the idea of humanity. For example, in the early days of industrialization, many 204