AI for Humanity
A tool without purpose becomes noise, not progress.
To be useful, AI must serve humanity.
AI for Humanity: What will we choose?
The United States announced “Winning the AI Race: America’s AI Action Plan,” positioning AI dominance as key to national and economic security. China proposed a World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization, calling for global collaboration and shared governance in AI development.
These are competing visions: one centered on collaboration, the other on dominance. Both focus on the "what," not the "how."
Both may succeed technically but reflect opposing views on technology’s role in society.
This raises a core question: Does effective AI require ethics?
🔶 If China censors training data but the AI works, is that success?
🔶 If U.S. models advance science but ignore bias, is that?
Ultimately, it’s a choice: AI as product and industry, or AI for human flourishing.
We don’t ask these questions of our coffee machines. But coffee machines don't talk back... well, some do via Alexa.
We are at a crossroads: AI for efficiency and operations, or AI for humanity.
The question is, which path will we choose?
There is no AI race
A race is an event between participants who have agreed to compete for a title based on speed.
And yet, political leaders keep referring to global AI initiatives as a race.
But there is no AI race.
Calling it a “race” implies a finish line. Agreed-upon rules.
A prize everyone’s chasing. Who agreed to compete? Certainly one cannot race against themself.
If AI is meant to benefit humanity, then we’re not opponents.
We’re on the same team. We’re not competing. We’re building. Building a future worthy of our humanity.
What we actually have is an opportunity to get it right, a moment to build a future not founded on the exploitation of many for the benefit of a few.
The current AI wave, driven by large language models, has turned a field of curiosity into one of profit.
We’re already seeing AI stratify as better performance costs more and access comes with a price tag.
We don't have to race. Instead, we can choose to build.
We've come too far to go back to such primitive thinking:
Us vs. them. Win vs. lose.
One team.
One outcome.
Human flourishing in the age of AI.
"AI must be designed with humanity at its core, with dignity as its foundation, and with responsibility as its guiding principle."
— Sophia B.
