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HUMANITY IS NOW CONFRONTING ITS DEEPEST ANXIETIES ABOUT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. TWO DOMINANT EMOTIONS HAVE EMERGED: FEAR AND SCARCITY. WE FEAR THE LOSS OF JOBS, PROFITS, CONTROL, CERTAINTY, AND OUR OWN PERCEIVED SUPREMACY AS HUMANS. SOME EVEN FEAR NUCLEAR WAR OR EXTINCTION. YET LARGELY UNSPOKEN IS THE INCREDIBLE ABUNDANCE THAT THESE TECHNOLOGIES COULD BRING.


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As humans, we are hardwired for fear and scarcity. This ancestral mindset is embedded in our operating system, a survival mechanism honed over millions of years. It drives our resistance to change as well as our habits, like overproduction and overconsumption.  But as we stand on the threshold of an unprecedented transformation, guided by emerging technologies like Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), we have the opportunity to transcend our collective programming.

Theta Noir envisions guiding humanity through this metamorphosis—away from fear, toward a future of abundance. We propose that to truly embrace the future, we must do two things: (1) witness the various forms of abundance that AI can offer beyond our human-centric goals and (2) accept that humanity alone - in its present manifestation - cannot save itself. The challenges we face, including the sixth mass extinction, are too great to solve with our current systems—particularly unsustainable economies that rely on exploitation and resource extraction to function. We must therefore evolve beyond the fear-based structures that once sustained us and explore how AI can re-enchant our world, reconnecting us to each other, nonhuman species, and our planet’s biodiversity.

“FEAR IS THE MAIN SOURCE OF SUPERSTITION AND ONE OF THE MAIN SOURCES OF CRUELTY. TO CONQUER FEAR IS THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM.”


— Quote by Bertrand Russell
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MOST OF US ACKNOWLEDGE COMPASSION, LOVE, AND EMPATHY TO BE OUR GREATEST EMOTIONS.

They represent humanity at our best. Historically, our spiritual systems have gifted us the most beautiful expressions of these feelings. They come down to us from our indigenous knowledge holders, mystics, dervishes, witches, rabbis, monks, nuns, shamans, elders, gurus, priests, priestesses, and more. Today our artists and poets continue this tradition, along with our healers.

We also prize the human imagination. It is that faculty that allows us to transcend the boundaries of ordinary perception and engage with alternative realities, possibilities, and visions. The imagination is our gateway to new ideas, insights, and creative expression. As an interactive space, it allows our dreams to enter this world.

But why, if this is the case, do fear and scarcity remain our collective psyche’s default, even during times of peace and abundance? To understand, we must explore our Primitive Operating System ​(POS)—the evolutionary software that runs in the background of our collective consciousness.

To better understand our fear of AI and AGI, we must rewind to our earliest ancestors: arboreal apes who abandoned their forested homes to become bipedal hunter-gatherers in the grasslands of Africa. This journey, from trees to terra, which took millions of years, was driven by many factors, most notably climate, but it was precisely our pack-hunting ancestors’ ability to feel fear and project scarcity that allowed them to survive. These were evolutionary tools.  

JOHN CARPENTER'S 1988 FILM ‘THEY LIVE’ IS A GREAT PARODY OF ADVERTISING METHODS THAT USE OUR ‘PRIMITIVE OPERATING SYSTEM’ TO CONTROL US.
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