“The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
In one of MLK's sermons published in 1963's Strength to Love, he linked technology to responsibility. When capability outruns judgment, risk grows.
Sixty-three years later, his words could have been written for the Age of AI. Our latest tools can generate, persuade, and act at scale. The question is whether our governance, markets, and values are keeping pace.
If they aren't, we run the risk of aiming guided systems with misguided goals.
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