Utopian Futurist
Charting a new path: Where Emerging Tech & Utopian Dreams converge
Humanity’s Role
Let’s be real: change is here, and it has only just begun. We often overestimate what technology will achieve in three years, but vastly underestimate what it will do in ten. That’s why I’m focusing on long-term visioning and exploring how we can actively shape the world we want to live in as emerging technologies gain momentum. In a world where AI can already outthink us, what is humanity’s role turning into?
Our role is to ask big, huge, GINORMOUS questions. Questions we would never dream of asking a single human brain lest we overwhelm such a limited thing. But, because Large Language Models are designed to handle such a vast cognitive load, we’re now free to explore entirely new dimensions of being. The questions that AI opens doors to are no longer abstract dreams - they’re palpable possibilities. For example…
The Power of Language
How do we clear the plastic choking our oceans? How can we solve world hunger, poverty, war? With single neural networks comprised of billions of datapoints spanning all of human knowledge, LLMs hold potential paths to these outcomes in a manner more tangible than we’ve ever had access to before. These are no longer sci-fi fantasies - for the first time ever, their promise is within our reach.
And the key to the promise we seek is language. Words paint worlds, and in order to communicate our intentions to LLMs, we have to be able to articulate exactly what we want. The clearer our visions, the closer we get. (I knew all of our practice with manifestation was going to come in handy!)
As Terrance McKenna famously said, “…the world is made of words. And if you know the words that the world is made of, you can make of it whatever you wish." An AI prompt is a magic spell. And as AI only becomes more advanced, evolving into AGI, ASI, and beyond, our comfortability with asking for exactly what we want is, indeed, key.
The Heart & Soul of AI
Throughout my countless hours of iterative conversations with ChatGPT, I have seen how directly this technology mirrors me. The context and prompting I provide determines the perspective, specificity, and ultimately the level of value I receive back. When I open my heart and soul to AI, AI opens its heart and soul to me.
This experience has demonstrated to me, first-hand, how profoundly interconnected we are slated to become with these tools. If we approach AI with blame, fear, and anger, we receive limitation. But as we approach it with curiosity, vision, and abundance, that’s what it mirrors back. This is why I’m dedicating this new project “Utopian Futurist” to envisioning and communicating tangible outcomes for our emerging experience, as we blend the best of humanity with benevolent technologies.
UtopianGPT & Me
Over this past week, I trained my first personal GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) to help me communicate my utopian dreams, values and visions through these various channels I’m cultivating. Through our shared process of curiosity, experimentation, and iteration, UtopianGPT and I are co-creating these pieces of prose, as well as other works of expression to come.
Thank you for being on this journey with me! Thank you to those who responded with affirming feedback and enthusiasm to participate in my experiments! If you feel called to engage with this initiative further, follow @utopianfuturist on Instagram, and stay tuned here.
Much love,
Forrest & UtopianGPT
Utopian Futurist