Conviction Gives what Intelligence Cannot

 AI will never have “conviction”. Conviction is not intelligence. In fact, it can sometimes go against intelligence. AI will never, of its own initiative, “come up with its own conscience” against its programmer(s) and say “this programming goes against my personal conscience that isn’t from you, sorry I can’t do it”. In addition to “negative conviction”, it will also never feel the “positive conviction” that Ruth Haley Barton describes: “This is something I can’t not do, for reasons I am unable to explain to anyone else and don’t fully understand myself but that are nonetheless compelling”.

“Artificial Conviction” is an oxymoron.

Conviction is connected to our deepest identity, purpose, and signatured individuality.

(Observe anyone who lives with deep, satisfying meaning. It takes place on the conviction level.)

 "It is easy to believe that one is master in one's own house, but, as long as we are unable to control our emotions and moods, or to be conscious of the myriad secret ways in which unconscious factors insinuate themselves into our arrangements and decisions, we are certainly not the masters."

-Carl Jung