When a Chinese person writes a code and an American person makes a PowerPoint presentation about how they're going to ban it, we know that the Cold War has moved into the AI phase. And that we all have – pardon the expression – a serious problem. Artificial Intelligence and the New Cold War and why we'll soon all be just pets in a simulation!
There was a time when the world was ruled by the dollar. Today it is driven by an algorithm – artificial intelligence. The one who has access to the smartest model no longer wins the game of capitalism – he becomes a new form of god. But beware – this is no longer god, which requires faith. This is the god who grants you UBI, a simulation of your dream career, and VR life substitute. Your life.
And while the West is dealing with regulating artificial intelligence in a way that would be like trying to ban gravity by decree, China quietly investing. Not in tools, but in the foundation of future reality – in data, in quantum chips, in AI as a state authority.
The Confused West and Systemic Amnesia
There is currently a kind of collective illusion in America that tariffs and bans can slow the growth of the digital dragon. A AI knows no boundaries. With each new Nvidia chip ban, they don't harm the Chinese, but force them to do their own thing. And they do. Maybe not yesterday, but certainly tomorrow.
America was once the empire of productivity. Today it is the empire of PowerPoint. It constantly tries to prove that it is still the master of the world, but in reality it is only the chief advertiser of its former success.
Why speed is the only true currency
As he said Mo Gawdat, former director of Google X, AI power doubles every 5.7 months. Not years – months. This means that in 2025 we are well past the point where a human without artificial intelligence can no longer participate in a modern conversation about the future. No more than a blacksmith could participate in a discussion about quantum mechanics in 2000.
Today, each of us has a choice: are you that one, who wakes up in the morning and puts on his digital IQ exoskeleton, or you become a user of a simulation where everyday life is served to you in the form of digital food, artificial meaning and all too often – very real anxiety.
Cold War 2.0: Artificial Intelligence as the Atomic Bomb of the 21st Century
Yes, AI is the new atomic bomb. Except it doesn't destroy cities, it destroys professions. It doesn't cause radioactivity, it destroys identity. And the biggest danger isn't that AI destroys us. No. The biggest danger is that it transforms us into something that is no longer purely human.
Lawyers will work with AI. Programmers will be the program that AI writes. Doctors will be advisors to an AI that will diagnose better than everyone else combined. And journalists? Well, if you don't Jan Macarol or its AI twin – you'll just be a reader, if you read at all.
What can save us?
Not much. But something nonetheless.
We need a new kind of courage. The courage to admit that we have fallen asleep. That we are being overtaken by those who do not scream, but build. And above all, we need the awareness that the future is already here - just very unevenly distributed.
We need an agreement. Between countries. Between people. Between generations. An agreement that we will no longer compete to see who will have the fastest AI to kill, but rather who will be the first to develop an AI that will help humans survive as humans.
Because if this agreement is not reached, we will face a cold war without winners.
