Fighting AI with AI
We build machines that outsmart us, then make more machines so they don’t outsmart us too much.
Fighting AI with AI is intellectually equivalent to shouting at your echo, except the echo learns from your voice, becomes smarter, and eventually finishes your sentences before you start them. And not in a romantic way … more like, “Shut up, I’ve already simulated the rest of your life.”
There is something tragically poetic about Camus’ Sisyphus, who pushes not a boulder but a self-replicating stack of servers up a silicon mountain. “The struggle itself,” said Camus, “is enough to fill a man’s heart.” Yes… But what if the heights are made of code and the struggle is automated?
We should be clear that using AI to fight AI is not a solution. It’s a recursive dilemma. A battle of mirrors, each reflecting the suspicion of the other until the original source is lost in a hall of algorithmic paranoia. It’s less “man versus machine” and more “machine versus itself, while man watches from the sidelines, unsure if he paid for the right ticket.”
When intelligence mirrors itself in code, the reflection becomes a rival, and the war is not for truth, but for control of the algorithm that defines it.
If we must fight fire with fire, we should at least wear oven mittens. And maybe … just maybe, we shouldn’t stop setting things on fire in the first place.
This might be of interest:
You can read an excerpt from the book “Critical Thinking is Your Superpower” here:
