Dr. Elena Park

A system doesn't have to think like us to outperform us.

That's uncomfortable because we've spent centuries treating intelligence as evidence of human exceptionalism.

If intelligence stops being uniquely human, that doesn't necessarily diminish humanity.

It may force us to develop a more sophisticated definition of it.

We don't merely calculate outcomes. We live inside them.

Machines don't need to experience emotion to become extremely capable at recognizing its signals.

A model can produce a recommendation. Only a person can be answerable for it.

The better machines become at capabilities we once considered uniquely ours, the more seriously we'll investigate what actually distinguishes human experience.