Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was an evolutionary biologist and catholic priest. In the days before the internet he predicted that we would find new ways to share our consciousness and knowledge. Perhaps the AI that we dread is part of this process of shared universal consciousness? In the 1950’s he was already intensely aware of the need to work together for the sake of the earth. As he put it..

“The age of nations has passed. Now, unless we wish to perish, we must shake off our old prejudices and build the Earth. The more scientifically I regard the world, the less can I see any possible biological future for it except in the active consciousness of its unity”