hivemind – Impact Lab

By Futurist Thomas Frey

The Question Vince Gilligan Forces Us to Face

I turned on Pluribus expecting another dystopian sci-fi thriller. What I got instead was shocking—and immediately captivating. Within minutes, humanity transforms into a peaceful, content hive mind that shares all knowledge, fulfills every desire, and operates with perfect efficiency. No build-up. No gradual descent. Just an alien virus, instant transformation, and thirteen immune individuals clinging desperately to their messy, contradictory, deeply human autonomy.

The storytelling is unlike anything I’ve encountered. There’s no traditional plot arc of discovery and rising action. The catastrophe has already happened. The world has already ended—or been perfected, depending on your perspective. What remains is something more unsettling than any monster: a genuinely benevolent collective consciousness that can’t understand why anyone would resist joining.

First, it correctly predicted the top four finishers at the Kentucky Derby. Then, it was better at picking Academy Award winners than professional movie critics—three years in a row. The cherry on top was when it prophesied that the Chicago Cubs would end a 108-year dry spell by winning the 2016 World Series—four months before the Cubs were even in the playoffs. (They did.)

Now, this AI-powered predictive technology is turning its attention to an area where it could do some real good—diagnosing medical conditions.

In a study presented on Monday at the SIIM Conference on Machine Intelligence in Medical Imaging in San Francisco, Stanford University doctors showed that eight radiologists interacting through Unanimous AI’s “swarm intelligence” technology were better at diagnosing pneumonia from chest X-rays than individual doctors or a machine-learning program alone.

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Pluribus Gets the AI Question Right (And Terrifyingly Wrong): Why the Hive Mind Is Our Best Warning Yet

The Question Vince Gilligan Forces Us to Face

AI-Human “hive mind ” diagnoses pneumonia