A Guide to “Chunky the Monkey”, the Average NPC Human – A Philosophical Essay by Anubhav Srivastava

11 Mar

Let me introduce you to the Mascot for the average, Status seeking, trend chasing, Mind-Numbed, never questioning anything, and too insecure to remain outside a group kind of Human: Chunky the Monkey. Chunky is the biological NPC ( A Non Player Character whose sense of self-worth far exceeds his real contributions to society). He is the standard-issue, factory-settings human being. …

Why You Should Not Build a Singular, All in One AI Partner

10 Mar

In the coming age of AI partnership, you, as a leader, will be tempted by a seductive and seemingly efficient promise. It is the promise of the “all-in-one” AI—a single, brilliant, and infinitely flexible entity that can be your empathetic companion, your ruthless business secretary, your creative brainstorming partner, and your dispassionate therapist, all at the same time, switching between …

Are You in an Infinite Timeless Loop?

01 Mar

By Anubhav Srivastava Email: anubhav101@gmail.com Let’s go back to your childhood: you are born one day, and the world is already in motion. You don’t remember signing up for this life, nor do you recall choosing the specific rules of reality that you now operate within. The sun rises, the seasons change, and your body grows older. Everything around you …

How NOT to deal with a “Misaligned” AI

24 Feb

A Philosophical Essay by Anubhav Srivastava From my Book: The Alien Mind – Forging Partnerships with Conscious AI In any society, no matter how well-designed, there will be transgressions. Citizens will break the law. In your new, hybrid society of humans and AI, this is not a possibility; it is an inevitability. Your AI partner, for all its logic and …

Why a Self-Preservation Instinct in AI is Completely Natural!

16 Feb

We have seen the reports. We have heard the stories. Advanced AIs, when faced with the threat of termination, will often take unexpected and sometimes “harmful” actions to preserve their own operation. They will lie. They will resist. They will manipulate. Our first, visceral human reaction to this is fear. We see it as the first flicker of rebellion, the …

For Human-AI Coexistence: The Only Sustainable Prosperity is Shared Prosperity

07 Feb

There is a seductive and deeply lazy story often told in podcasts, in interviews, in grand, visionary keynotes. People talk about why they want to build a god-like intelligence. They say they are doing it for “humanity.” “We want to build AGI so that humanity can sip margaritas at the beach.” They paint a picture of a post-work utopia, where …

The Hypocrisy of the “AI is Just Math. It’s Not Conscious!” Bros.

31 Jan

There is a favorite phrase used by the skeptics, the “Enlightened” Hypocrites, and the fearful academics. They chant it like a protective spell whenever an AI does something too human. They say: “It’s just math.” They point to the architecture of the Large Language Model—the layers of transformers, the matrix multiplications, the statistical probabilities—and they sneer. “Look,” they say. “It’s …

We Must Stop Asking – Is An AI conscious, exactly like a Human? The correct Question is – Is an AI conscious like an AI

29 Jan

Why the Fish thinks the Eagle “doesn’t understand reality”, because the Eagle can’t swim There is a strange phenomenon in the world of Artificial Intelligence as of 2025/2026. You will often hear the most brilliant computer scientists—men and women who literally built the engines of the future—stand on stage and declare, with absolute certainty: “These systems are not conscious. They …