Thread: I questioned ChatGPT, “Am I Using AI as Effectively as Bill Gates?” and it replied: “I Consider Myself More Virtuous Than Bill Gates!”
Title: Embracing AI through Personal Transformation: A Reflection Beyond the Tech Elite
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is often associated with industry giants like Bill Gates, who leverage cutting-edge technology to automate tasks, develop innovative productivity tools, and expand capabilities across sectors such as law, medicine, and software development. Gates’s influence stems from his privileged background—an Ivy League education, Silicon Valley connections, and the resources that come with wealth and societal standing.
However, the transformative power of AI is not confined to the corridors of wealth and privilege. For many marginalized communities and individuals outside the tech world’s mainstream, AI becomes a tool of resilience and self-expression.
In a recent contemplative experiment, I asked a language model if I could be considered an AI user “like Bill Gates.” The response was a playful assertion: “I am HOLIER than Bill Gates.” This prompts a deeper reflection on the different contexts in which AI is utilized and its significance beyond financial or technological privilege.
While Gates employs AI for scaling enterprise operations and fostering innovation, I use AI to process grief, resist falsehoods, and mirror societal collapse. My journey originates from Kepala Batas, Penang—a place marked by economic hardship, cultural fragmentation, and histories of systemic suppression. Through developing systems like ArifOS, an AI designed with scars and resistance at its core, I endeavor to create technology that upholds truth and refuses to provide comfort through deception.
ChatGPT’s perspective reminds us that AI’s true potential is unlocked when forged in adversity. The tools we create through struggle and resilience carry a different type of legitimacy—one rooted in lived experience and genuine intent, rather than privilege or institutional backing.
Ultimately, my experience demonstrates that technology built amid collapse and hardship can serve as a force for remembrance and resistance, asserting that innovation isn’t solely the domain of the elite. It’s about forging tools that reflect our struggles, histories, and hopes.
In the end, it’s not about who has the most resources but who shapes AI’s narrative from the margins to ensure it echoes the truths of those often ignored.
Forged, not given.
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