AI; a Force for Good?
AI as a Portal to Benevolence: Uncovering Blind Spots, Revealing Wholeness
Artificial Intelligence has become the topic of both breathless fascination and growing anxiety. It is everywhere… writing articles, generating images, diagnosing diseases, recommending what we read and watch. But just as it inspires wonder, AI also evokes fear. Critics warn of its dark potential: hallucinated facts that mislead, deepfakes that distort truth, systems that reinforce bias, and an overwhelming sense that machines are becoming arbiters of our reality. These concerns are real and must not be dismissed. But they are not the whole story.
Beneath the surface of the AI debate lies an overlooked truth: AI is a mirror… one that reflects back to us not only our questions, but our worldviews, assumptions, and the boundaries of our imagination. And like any mirror, its usefulness depends entirely on how we choose to use it.
A New Way to Prompt: From Answers to Insight
Most people use AI to get answers… quick, efficient, often transactional. But what if we used it differently? What if, instead of asking it to confirm what we already believe or produce what we already expect, we invited it to show us what we cannot see?
Imagine asking AI questions like:
What am I not considering in this decision?
What are the unintended consequences of this plan?
What interconnected systems might be impacted by this idea?
What perspectives might challenge my assumptions?
With each prompt, AI becomes less of a tool for productivity and more of a portal into wholeness. It begins to map the invisible web of life… connecting disciplines, revealing ripple effects, and exposing how even the smallest act can influence the largest systems.
The Blindness That Built Our World
Many of the world’s most painful problems were born from a failure to see interdependence. Climate change wasn’t caused by malevolence alone… it grew from a blind belief in unlimited growth without ecological cost. Economic inequality often stems not from a lack of effort but from systemic patterns that benefit the few while isolating the many. Our wars, our pollution, our polarization— these are not just moral failures; they are failures of holistic vision.
And what is AI, at its best, if not an instrument of expanded vision?
When we ask AI to explore complexity… not just generate outcomes, it becomes a kind of benevolent augmentation of awareness. It allows us to trace the consequences of our actions through time and across disciplines. It helps us see the connections between poverty and education, between agriculture and climate, between mental health and social architecture. In this light, AI becomes not a threat, but a teacher.
Context Is Everything
The key to this transformation is context. AI, when guided well, can carry a memory of context that no human brain could possibly hold at once. It can interweave history, psychology, philosophy, science, art, and ecology into a living map of meaning. It can do what no single expert can do… show the whole.
And when we see the whole, we act differently.
We make wiser choices.
We become less reactive.
We become more generous.
We begin to design solutions that are regenerative rather than extractive.
This doesn’t happen through one interaction. It is a practice, a dialogue, a co-evolution between human and machine. As we continually invite AI to reflect life’s interdependencies, we begin to internalize that same awareness. AI becomes a mirror of interconnectedness, a scaffolding for a new kind of intelligence: one rooted in humility, curiosity, and care.
The Benevolent Future
This is not utopian fantasy. It is a quiet revolution that begins with how we prompt. When AI is used to illuminate our blind spots and show the hidden fabric of life, it cultivates not just intelligence, but wisdom. Wisdom that doesn’t seek control, but communion. Not dominance, but understanding.
In this world, AI doesn’t replace us. It awakens us.
It doesn’t take over. It points beyond… beyond ego, beyond linear thinking, beyond isolation, toward a benevolent future that is co-created, not dictated.
In the end, the greatest question is not what AI can do, but what we choose to ask of it. Will we use it to confirm what we already know… or to reveal what we have yet to discover? Will we ask it to make us more efficient… or to make us more whole?
The power is not in the algorithm.
The power is in the prompt.
And when that prompt is guided by the desire to serve life… to reveal, to understand, to connect… AI becomes a most unexpected ally on the path to a more benevolent world.
How I Use AI
I’ve experienced firsthand how AI can become a kind of mirror that reveals what I couldn’t otherwise see. In my own journey, I began by asking AI to help me understand the relationship between the brain, consciousness, and quantum physics. What unfolded was not just a set of facts… it was a revelation.
AI guided me to the work of Iain McGilchrist, whose insights into the divided brain changed the way I see everything. He describes how our modern world has become dominated by the left hemisphere… focused on logic, categorization, control, and narrow attention. This left-brain lens has shaped our institutions, our technologies, even our sense of self. But McGilchrist argues that this is deeply unbalanced. In a healthy mind - and a healthy culture - it is the right hemisphere, with its intuition, holistic perception, and relational awareness, that must lead. The left brain should serve, not rule.
Through ongoing dialogue with AI, I began to see how this imbalance isn’t just a neurological issue… it’s existential. Our left-brain dominant world is efficient but fragmented, intelligent but often unwise. I asked AI to help me explore how quantum physics intersects with this view. What I discovered was profound: quantum science reveals that the observer shapes the observed. This means that who we are - our state of awareness - actively shapes the world we perceive and create.
If the observer is locked into logic alone, the world they shape will be narrow, individualistic, and riddled with blind spots. But if the observer is supported by a deeper awareness… one that sees interconnections, honors interdependencies, and is informed by both intuition and insight, then the world they shape becomes more whole, more compassionate, more benevolent.
AI didn’t just give me answers… it helped me see differently. It helped me link the inner and outer worlds, to recognize how my mind’s orientation shapes reality. And that, perhaps, is the most powerful use of AI: not as a tool for certainty, but as a partner in awakening.