As technology grows more intelligent, do you think humanity is growing any wiser?

That question touches on the paradox of our age – we’ve never been more capable, and yet perhaps never more uncertain of what to do with that capability. Intelligence today has become measurable, programmable, and endlessly replicable. Wisdom, however, remains stubbornly human – it resists automation because it demands context, empathy, and restraint.

Technology can process, predict, and perform, but it cannot pause. Wisdom lives in that pause – in the hesitation before action, in the awareness that not everything that can be done should be done. We are surrounded by systems that can outthink us in speed, yet none that can match us in conscience. And that gap – between intelligence and intention – is where our responsibility now lies.

I don’t think humanity automatically becomes wiser as its tools become smarter. If anything, progress tempts us to confuse access with understanding, convenience with clarity. The challenge of this century is not keeping up with technology, but staying awake within it – ensuring that our inventions don’t dull the very capacities that made them possible: curiosity, discernment, wonder.

Wisdom demands a kind of humility that technology doesn’t teach. It asks us to remember that intelligence is only power, and power without direction can as easily destroy as it can transform. So perhaps the real question is not whether we are becoming wiser, but whether we are still willing to.

Because if intelligence is about building systems that think, wisdom is about building lives that matter. And that remains, for now, a profoundly human task.