AI Moat: Our Human Interface

Our human interface is our most defensive competitive advantage against AI.

Our biology is constantly collecting inputs from the physical world that we are often unable to quantify: everything we see, touch, feel, smell, neurochemically infer, etc.

For example:

The data you collect about a person is not only the picture of the aggregate of atoms that you see and touch, but also the pheromones, interactions, intuitive feelings, emotional triggers, physical forces, etc.

Our human interface provides us with a greater diversity of data collection engines, both physical and non-physical, and both conscious and subconscious.

AI's intelligence and capabilities are limited by the type of data it can access, ingest, process, and learn from. Reasoning by inference alone from the things we understand is not enough.

Until we have the ability to understand and translate the aggregate of the data we collect through our human biology and/or provide AI with the equivalent data collection interface, we will continue to be more comprehensive intelligent machines.

Progress in robotics could potentially change that.

What protects us from having AI surpass us is therefore not AI itself, but our own inability to understand the full capabilities of our human interface and scope of our intelligence.