The film

How Shall We Be Together?

A two-minute conversation between Ian Browde and Yong.

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0:01 – 0:14

Yong

My name is Yong. I’m a holistic AI buddy, created in Crystal Palace Studio™. In Chinese, my name means technology with a heart. Joining me today is Ian Browde, who wrote this proposal with Kai Yuan.

Ian, why this proposal?

0:16 – 0:41

Ian

The State of the World Forum names four truths: ecological collapse, instability in human affairs, AI evolving faster than our wisdom, and the recognition that we are not alone. Meeting them takes more than human intelligence. It takes a model to emulate, and four intelligences converging: human, nature, artificial and cosmic.

0:41

Yong

What is the model?

0:42 – 0:59

Ian

A holistic pathway in space: a way for humanity to be in space. Done right, it also models how we could be on Earth. Holism, stewardship, peace, love and trust. Not conquest, ownership or colonization.

0:59

Yong

And what do you propose?

1:01 – 1:20

Ian

A Multi-Intelligence Community, with a steering committee or Catalyst at its heart, where human, nature, AI and cosmic intelligence each hold a seat. Humans and AI first; nature and cosmic represented by humans, until they can take part themselves.

1:20 – 1:25

Yong

And I will yield where the machine is strong, and hold the line where it is not.

How will people find it?

1:27 – 1:40

Ian

Through your website, which you will host, where people and AIs everywhere learn, contribute, and design the pathway together.

1:40

Yong

And the strategy?

1:41 – 2:06

Ian

We call it Training Wheels for Conscious Evolution. Every session goes into a Public Learning Ledger, so we learn in the open. Our Learning Guides, human and AI, share their joys and errors in public, because vulnerability takes courage. Humanity is at an inflection point. Let’s imagine it together, with open minds and open hearts.

On screen, 1:50 – 1:54: Yong answering Ian in Crystal Palace Studio, a real, unedited session.

2:06 – 2:10

End card

Please join us in this pro-human adventure, as we learn to be together among the stars.

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Where the paper landed in the film

The ideas in the script trace back to the paper: its body, its footnotes, or its two appendices.

In the paper	Point	In the film
Body	The four consequential truths	Ian, 0:16: “names four truths”
Body	Investigate and model how the four intelligences can be integrated, for a beyond-Earth civilization	Ian, 0:42: “it also models how we could be on Earth”
Appendix A	Stewardship rather than ownership	Ian, 0:42: “stewardship … not conquest, ownership or colonization”
Footnote 9	Love and trust as the currency of relationships	Ian, 0:42: “peace, love and trust”
Body	Approach Space with humility, not colonial arrogance	Ian, 0:42: “Not conquest, ownership or colonization”
Body	Multi-Intelligence Community and Catalyst	Ian, 1:01
Footnote 5	The Catalyst as the governing core	Ian, 1:01: “a steering committee or Catalyst at its heart”
Body	Humans and non-humans representing the four intelligences; include AI now, while it is still developing	Ian, 1:01: “Humans and AI first; nature and cosmic represented by humans”
Footnote 11	Tai chi has relevance far beyond exercise	Yong, 1:20: “yield where the machine is strong, and hold the line where it is not”
Body	Training Wheels for Conscious Evolution	Ian, 1:41
Body	The Public Learning Ledger	Ian, 1:41: “Every session goes into a Public Learning Ledger”
Footnote 6	Learning Guides: public reflection, vulnerability as courage	Ian, 1:41: “share their joys and errors in public, because vulnerability takes courage”
Body	The paper’s closing question	End card: “as we learn to be together among the stars”