Human intelligence includes curiosity, compassion, reasoning, imagination, and moral judgment.

Technological efficiency cannot guarantee environmental sustainability when overall demand keeps expanding.

The danger lies in assuming that strengthening AI automatically strengthens the world in which it operates.

On November 30, 2022, ChatGPT entered public life. Four years later, artificial intelligence (AI) can write, code, translate, analyze medical images, and solve problems that once required years of specialist training. The progress is extraordinary. Yet the anniversary raises an uncomfortable question: What happens when the intelligence we manufacture grows stronger while the natural intelligence (NI) on which our lives depend comes under increasing strain? Welcome to the "Hybrid Helix"!

Imagine two intertwined strands. One represents NI, encompassing human minds and the living systems of our planet. The other represents AI, the technological capabilities we have created. Both influence each other. Both shape our future. Since 2022, however, their trajectories have become increasingly unequal. Our machines are gaining capabilities at remarkable speed. Meanwhile, our willingness to exercise independent judgment faces new pressures, and the natural systems sustaining human civilization continue to deteriorate.

The Hybrid Helix captures this growing imbalance. We are getting increasingly capable of doing things while becoming ever less able to decide what is worth doing and to perform what matters without crutches.

Four years that changed the balance

The numbers tell an extraordinary story. In 2022, conversational AI was still unreliable at many demanding intellectual tasks. By 2025, leading systems were meeting or exceeding human reference scores on several advanced scientific and mathematical benchmarks. Their ability to operate computers also advanced rapidly, with success on a demanding computer-use benchmark rising from approximately 5 percent in 2024 to........

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