22 November 2025
It's Harmful to Resist AI Or immigration
Many critical thinkers in the U.S. fear that Artificial Intelligence will replace much of the work that average people do, costing them much of their self-esteem. At the same time, those average people defensively resent immigrants, legal or not, because they compete with legacy job holders for the wages they earn.
These concerns take the view that most American citizens respond listlessly to technological and economic changes. It is a smug assertion that this double challenge to most people’s accustomed way of life will irreparably disrupt society. On the contrary, it only the simultaneity of these two events that is unusual. We have surpassed and benefited from similar crises separately before.
Few of us have discarded nationalist tendencies and embraced the positive effects of universal multilateral collaboration. Border protection is still more important to us than unfettered shared destinies. AI’s ability to help us reach that one-world halcyon may be hampered by its reliance on archived information. Human imagination will be needed to invent a new global organizational model. Unification will endure only if it happens willingly, and not by conquest.
Competition has historically promoted the advance of humanity. Nevertheless, the time has come for a visionary leader to master the available communication tools and inspire the world to drop its counterproductive segmentation. When he or she establishes a philosophical and political singularity, however, it will be crucial also to preserve individual liberty. Squaring that circle will always be difficult and the leader’s greatest challenge.
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