The biggest threat from AI today isn’t AI. It’s us.

Theres a very big difference between what any of us want and what any of us need.

Yet the lines have become so blurred that we live our lives and consume or purchase what we believe we need today, without any care for the reality that it could be what will end up killing us tomorrow.

Do we want to die? Probably not. But that doesn’t stop us chasing a dragon that we deliberately forget to fear until we catch up with it and it turns around and burns us.

The strangest part of the whole process is that we don’t even question why we are chasing a dragon or myth that we don’t even need in the first place.

Processed Food and eating out, new smartphones every 24 months, expensive clothes and cars, foreign holidays, the latest games and technology, overpriced houses and many of the other goods, products and services that most of us have access to or use daily are all one and the same:

These are the things that we want. They are not the things that we need.

The difference between meeting our needs and meeting our wants can be considered as follows:

The economics of supplying everyone’s needs is sustainable. The economics of meeting everyone’s wants are not.

The simplicity of this equation should make the consequences of the way we are living not only easy to understand, but even easier for us all to take action to head-off.

But we don’t see or understand it. We are all too busy trying to get the next thing we want.

We ignore the reality of our decision to live this way, using the excuse that it’s someone else’s responsibility to change things, or at the very least, it’s always someone else’s fault.