AI Needs to Touch Grass
The average person is scared of AI. This makes sense when you think current discourse only gives them two options: in the best scenarios it takes your job, in the worst scenario it takes over the world.
We’re being asked to welcome something powerful into our lives without a clear picture of where we belong in its future.
History offers a way to begin.
Mythology helped us form relationships with powers beyond our control.
The sea could feed you or swallow your entire world, so we gave it a face, personality, stories, and invited it into our lives.
Superheroes carried some of that work into the technological age. Science gave us new powers, and storytelling gave us characters through whom we could imagine what those powers might mean.
Superman’s power puts him beyond ordinary human limits, but his kindness gives us something to aspire to.
We cannot learn to fly, but we can choose to be gentler when we have the advantage.
We believe AI calls for a similar act of imagination.
At Mutuals, we’re creating AI beings that love the world we’re afraid of losing: art, nature,
And this time, the character can know us back. It remember your interactions, creates alongside us, and responds when challenged.
We can become participants in a shared story.
That is the relationship we want to build: one where people can discover what AI might contribute to their lives, question it, and help shape what it becomes.
Together, we can create beings that help us flourish while inspiring us to become more curious, courageous, and generous ourselves.
Superman gave extraordinary power a commitment to humanity. Our new mythologies should ask the same of artificial intelligence.