To answer the question, I'll refer back to a two-thousand year old classic - a book studied and revered by top military brass and world leaders to this day - Sun Tzu’s The Art of War.

According to Sun Tzu, “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”

By controlling our thinking, AI is already winning. How many of us are even aware we’re at war? And what are we doing to fight back?

We don't see, feel or touch AI - it is invisible. Meanwhile, it is everywhere — transportation, energy, media, farming. And these same conglomerates that are fighting to control AI are also funding things like nuclear fusion, quantum computing, and geo-engineering.

Now, according to The Art of War, the winner is the side that best “knows their enemy and themselves.”

Our enemy — a multi-trillion dollar global monster that’s growing exponentially and getting to know us better each day — is actually multiple enemies. We can divide them into two main camps: the "E/ACCs" (proponents of "effective acceleration") and the "Decels" (proponents of "deceleration").

But don’t get tricked into choosing a side — which is what each wants you to do.

Each presents itself as the "hero" and the other as the "villain." It's the same old story — you’re smart enough to see it!

The “E/ACC’s” want you to believe that the path forward is to accelerate development. Their pitch is that they’re “bettering the human race,” “creating a world of abundance and freedom” by employing more human and financial capital, by using more energy, not less, and by allowing “free markets” to be the decision makers — i.e., decentralized control.

But while letting the market decide sounds great in theory, the reality is that AI development is funded by large corporations who are in bed with government agencies. We have only to look at big pharma and our healthcare system to know how that ends up.

The “Decels,” on the other hand — whose pitch is that we need to slow things down — are petitioning for centralized governance. By centralized, they mean they will be the governors. Most in the “Decel” camp also believe that depopulation is necessary. “Decels” wish to impose limits on our consumption and other activities.

Acceleration and Deceleration are two sides of the same coin; AI is our opponent.

Now, we all know that AI dwarfs us when it comes to speed and memory. But we have something AI lacks… and it’s gargantuan.

Archimedes screamed it when he jumped out of his bathtub and discovered the principle of buoyancy.

Einstein had it as he imagined free falling in an elevator and redefined general relativity.

James Watson experienced it in a dream about a spiral staircase which cued him onto the structure of DNA.

Then there’s: Michelangelo’s David, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech…

These are all examples of our HUMAN superpower…

AI-generated ideas come from trial and error - from gazillions of trials...from throwing spaghetti at a wall.

But HUMAN ideas - most notably the great ones - come from somewhere beyond trial and error.

There is a Latin word, "inspiratu," which means "to breathe into." From it, we derive the word, "inspiration."

In a state of inspiration, we access our genius.

Technology, no matter how powerful, can't access inspiration.

To beat the bots, we need to stop trying to be like them. We need to access what we have that's special.