Future Beyond AI: Shifting focus form Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Human Augmentation (HA) via HSDD Technologies

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is gaining significant interest and hype across the globe.  AI can be used for automation, content generation, conversation, decision-making and recommendations, and seems to promise several befits such as efficiency and productivity. Benefits are there, however, there are also increasing concerns about AI safety, ethics and its adverse impacts e.g. replacing people and their jobs.  

In this post, I will not boast about the AI and its related concepts such as Agentic AI and so on. I will focus  on the future and a shift from AI to HA (Human Augmentation)  for the greater good of people, peace and prosperity (e.g. value for countries, customers, businesses, staff and society). 

so let's  begin with defining the concepts of HA or human augmentation?

Human Augmentation (HA)

Humans have the physical structure, sensors, motor skills and cognitive ability to think, store, communicate and perform actions for achieving mental and physical tasks. Intelligence can relate to the cognitive ability of humans, which can be mimic or replicate by synthetic or artificial intelligence (AI). This is a limited view compared to the concept of the HA. 

HA can be defined as 
"a mechanism for developing, maintaining, enhancing, repairing, restoring and removing elements and attributes for supporting humans for a given context and purpose without harming or causing stress to humans". 

HA Examples 

It could be Cognitive Augmentation for improving cognitive ability to think and make decisions It could be Physical Augmentation for performing physical task such as lifting, pushing and walking etc.  It could be about repairing or restoring vision. 

HA Technologies

HA can be achieved through the systematic integration and interfacing via human-software-data-digital  (HSDD) technologies such as virtual assistants, laser, prosthetics, robots, sensor etc.  

To be continues....

More on this in Part 2. 

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