Equilibrium in the Flux: Beyond the Democratization of Health
In the era we are about to enter, what is the essential faculty—the vital skill for life—required of us as individuals? If we look back at history, every epoch has birthed and demanded its own specific skills; those who adapted swiftly were able to carve out social standing and careers. However, the seismic shift of the coming decades will undoubtedly be defined, as we are already witnessing, by AI and the uncrewed automation of existence.
These two social tides are unavoidable. Even if the “AI bubble” were to burst in two or three years, causing a multitude of enterprises to vanish, history dictates that technology will merely transition from a phase of hype to one of deep permeation. The true struggle begins there. The modern mind has a bad habit of judging matters in binary black and white, and thus a trend will likely arise that equates the bursting of the bubble with the end of AI technology. Looking at history, however, such a conclusion is impossible.
Ultimately, even if we speak of AI, it remains an equipment industry. When the bubble collapses, the entities that survive will be those with the fiscal endurance to continue paying for the electricity that feeds the data centers. The companies that rose on the bubble without such stamina will be absorbed or selected out. Limiting our view to that perspective, the individual possesses no means to resist these macroscopic forces.
However, we tend to be captivated only by this single facet of AI technology, and that narrow gaze becomes a fog that obscures the total picture of the era. We must not forget that the aspects of life benefiting from this technological progression have already begun. Furthermore, we must seriously consider the fact that this benefit is being democratized as a critically important skill for the world in which we must survive. If we fall into the trap of judging AI as simply “good” or “bad,” we will misread the future.
Personally, I began studying Precision Nutrition at the beginning of this February. I sense a remarkable leap forward in this field, and the technology supporting that leap is AI. First, to avoid confusion, I should distinguish this from the commonly heard Molecular Nutrition.