The 8 Faces of AI: Who Will You Become As AI Accelerates? | Frankly 96
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
Nate Hagens
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🗓️ 23 May 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
In a world increasingly mediated by machines, the boundaries between human identity and artificial intelligence are beginning to blur. While some embrace the tools of the future, others quietly resist, preserving ways of being that have endured for millennia. What happens when AI becomes not just a tool but a mirror?
In this week's Frankly, Nate introduces a new typology of how AI may shape human behavior in the years ahead. He outlines eight archetypes reflecting our varied relationships to artificial intelligence—ranging from resistance and discipline to dependence and immersion. Rather than focusing on technological capability, he explores what these categories reveal about human psychology, culture, and adaptation.
Which of these types do you see in yourself and those around you? What will it take to retain our analog roots in a digital age? And in a world increasingly shaped by algorithms, what kind of human will you choose to be?
(Recorded May 20, 2025)
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings to the followers of the Great Simplification Platform and podcast. |
| 0:06.2 | Before we get to this week's, frankly, I have a small favor to ask you, the viewers. |
| 0:11.1 | In addition to the podcast and the Franklies, later this year, we're going to be offering a series of courses broadly construed about Reality 101 in different categories. |
| 0:24.2 | And we have a survey which takes about 10 minutes to complete. |
| 0:28.7 | And I would be appreciative if you could take the time to fill this survey out, which will |
| 0:34.2 | help us inform how we do these course offerings that will come out later |
| 0:40.7 | this year. You can find the link to this survey in the description of this episode. Gratitude |
| 0:47.4 | for those of you who fill it out. With that, here is this week's, frankly, on artificial |
| 0:53.2 | intelligence. |
| 0:55.1 | Greetings. |
| 1:06.3 | It's Tuesday, May 20th, and it is pouring rain here in eastern Minnesota, which is good for Morales, wild mushrooms. |
| 1:07.8 | Fingers crossed. |
| 1:10.5 | That'll happen in the next week or so. |
| 1:11.6 | I'm going to talk today about artificial intelligence. |
| 1:15.6 | Again, I am not an AI expert. |
| 1:18.6 | If I'm an expert in anything, it's why AI or ASI or AGI artificial superintelligence, |
| 1:25.6 | artificial general intelligence are unlikely to actually happen. |
| 1:31.0 | But I was just in San Francisco for some meetings, some presentations. |
| 1:37.9 | And it's amazing how the world seems to center around artificial intelligence. |
| 1:43.6 | On this podcast, I have talked often about how in the biophysical macro sense, |
| 1:50.0 | AI will function as a larger straw if it increases productivity and enables |
| 1:56.0 | better nuclear power, better extraction of minerals or energy, et cetera, it will be a giant backfire |
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