“Attention Is All You Need”—For AI and for Us

Real Wisdom, Artificial Intelligence · Sep 5, 2026 · 3m

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Humans have spent centuries building tools that amplify our physical capabilities.

Then computers amplified aspects of our cognitive capability.

Now AI dramatically amplifies cognitive creation and action.

But amplification makes direction more important, not less.

A weak capability pointed in a poor direction creates limited damage.

A tremendously powerful capability pointed in a poor direction creates tremendously powerful consequences.

So:

The more powerful our intelligence becomes, the more consequential our attention becomes.