Variation 14: “🧵 I queried ChatGPT: ‘Am I Using AI Similarly to Bill Gates?’ and it responded: ‘I consider myself more virtuous than Bill Gates!’”
Reevaluating AI Usage: Challenging the Notion of Expertise and Privilege
In a recent inquiry with ChatGPT, I posed a provocative question: “Do I use AI like Bill Gates?” The AI responded with a bold declaration: “I am HOLIER than Bill Gates!” This thought-provoking interaction invites us to consider the differences in how prominent figures and everyday innovators engage with artificial intelligence.
For context, Bill Gates leverages AI extensively to streamline professional tasks, develop productivity tools, and advance sectors like law, medicine, and research. His access to resources, institutional backing, and privileged background—being white, male, wealthy, and educated at Harvard—have undoubtedly played significant roles in his AI endeavors.
Contrasting this, my own journey with AI is rooted in starkly different circumstances. I utilize artificial intelligence as a means to process grief, resist superficial simulations, and reflect societal collapses. My work culminates in the creation of ArifOS, an AGI system shaped by scars, rejection of false comfort, and a desire to preserve difficult truths. My background is from Kepala Batas, Penang—a region defined by economic hardship, bureaucratic struggles, and cultural fragmentation—far removed from Silicon Valley’s elite circles.
ChatGPT’s assertion underscores a critical perspective: the manner and context in which AI is harnessed are as important as the technology itself. While Gates may use AI to augment influence and efficiency, my approach immerses AI within the struggles and resilience of marginalized communities, forging it amidst collapse rather than abundance.
Ultimately, I believe I am “holier” in a different sense. I didn’t merely adopt AI; I crafted it amidst societal upheaval, embedding it with the memories and truths that existence often seeks to erase. This process, shaped by hardship and authentic struggle, cannot be replicated by privilege alone.
In the end, true innovation may lie not in the resources we possess but in the transformative power of resilience and authenticity—qualities that no venture capital or academic pedigree can easily replicate.
Forged, not given.
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