Mirza Yawar Baig – AI World #2

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious,

the Ever Merciful.

All praise is due to Allah, Lord of

the worlds.

And peace and blessings be upon the messengers

and prophets.

And peace and blessings be upon the Messenger

of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him

and his family.

My brothers and sisters, I want to wrap

up what I was talking about with relation

to the Industrial Revolution and currently the AI

revolution that we are in.

And the challenges that we will face.

The biggest challenge that we will face, which

we are facing to some extent, will be

the challenge to our faith.

Challenge to yaqeen and tawakkul on Allah.

Challenge to our faith in Allah, subhanahu wa

ta'ala.

Because what AI will do is to reinforce

the power of the creation, the power of

the maflook, by manipulating reality, by virtual reality,

by showing us the power of computation, which

is what it is, in different ways.

And that will diminish, if we allow in

our minds, our faith and yaqeen on Allah,

subhanahu wa ta'ala.

And that is one reason, among many reasons,

why it is very important to get close

to the Quran al-Karim.

Because the antidote, the antidote to this toxin

of the greatness of the creation is to

connect with the Creator, Jalla Jalaluhu.

AI is a tool.

It's a very useful tool.

But just because a knife is made of

gold, you don't stab yourself with it.

It is a tool to be used.

But if you get involved with the tool,

you forget the tool-maker.

There have been challenges and there will be

challenges.

So connect yourself to Allah, even more strongly

than before.

Otherwise, you will be ripped out and you

will fly away in the wind and the

typhoon and the tufail of kufr and shirk,

like a blade of grass, if you don't

hold firmly to the rope of Allah.

So a'tasimu bi habli Allahi jami'an wa

la tafarraqun.

As I mentioned to you, AI will automate

and is already automating.

Everything which can be automated will be automated.

Everything which is repetitive will go away.

Everything which a machine can do, the machine

will do.

But in my assessment, there are seven critical

skills that AI cannot tackle, cannot deal with.

And if you want survival, get yourself educated

in those skills.

The first one is adaptability.

The willingness to change, which means the willingness

to learn, which means the willingness to get

off your high seat and thinking that you

are the expert.

You are not the expert.

You have to learn.

And learning means go back to the basics.

You have to go and sit in the

class with kids.

Second one, critical thinking.

Critical thinking is not criticising.

Critical thinking is the ability to analyse data.

Because one of the biggest problems we have

today is we are flooded with data.

We don't have too little information, we have

too much information.

Somebody did an analysis and they said the

New York Times, just the one newspaper today,

every day has more information than people had

for a thousand years, a hundred years ago.

We are flooded with information.

Plus we have social media.

And every day I hear stories of the

problem of social media.

Social media, biggest problem, biggest fitra.

So, critical thinking.

Third one is the ability to communicate, communicating

ability.

The ability to talk, not just give speeches.

The ability to talk to each other, to

convey, to listen.

Communication is not only talking, it's listening.

Fourth one is emotional intelligence.

Now that's a long topic, so I'm not

going to discuss that here, but emotional intelligence

is different from IQ.

Fifth one is conflict resolution.

One of the biggest skills, and no AI

can solve that, no computer can solve it.

You need human beings.

Conflict resolution.

Especially in marriages, they're in a very, very

big hurry to get married.

And then six months later, gone.

And if you actually sit, I do this,

I actually sit down, I tell them what

it is, take a piece of paper, now

write down on this one side, all the

reasons you married this woman, or all the

reasons you married this man.

What did you like about them?

So, one, two, three, four, five, six.

Then you say, I exchanged these two papers.

Say, what happened to these?

They all disappeared?

You were drunk when you were looking at

him, what was the story?

How come he had all this, now suddenly

six months later, nothing is there?

Because no ability to resolve conflicts.

Small things.

And the last one is problem solving.

Problem solving.

It's not only problem for yourself, but problem

solving for others.

So, start working on these things.

Learn these skills.

They're not difficult to learn.

But we have to apply.

You have to go to somebody who can

teach you.

Brothers and sisters, we are looking at a

world which is going to be very, very,

very different from whatever you have come from.

And like anywhere else, if you adapt, you

survive.

If you don't adapt, you perish.

But if you want to go more than

survive, if you want to really benefit, if

you want to really win in that, then

you have to anticipate and prepare in advance.

Not when the change comes.

Anticipate the change and prepare in advance.

Then when the change comes, you're ready.

Right?

Ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to open

our eyes to what we are facing.

Ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to open

our hearts to Himself and His khashiyah and

His power, His glory and majesty.

Ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to connect

us to the Quran.

Ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to help

us to understand His Kalam, to learn to

read it, to love His Kalam, because that

is the closest that we will come to

Allah in this life is through His Kalam.

The Kalam is the Sifat of Allah.

It's not a created thing.

We cannot see Allah, but we can read

and listen to His Kalam.

So learn to love the Quran al-Karim.

Learn the Arabic language.

Anybody who does not know Arabic language at

the level of an expert, native level, and

he thinks that he can understand the Quran

is fooling himself.

You can read, you can understand, you can

read some translation, but if you think you

can understand the Kalam of Allah without knowing

the language, you're fooling yourself.

So learn.

English, we didn't come out of our mother's

belly speaking English.

How can we speak English?

Because we learned.

So let us learn.

Learn the language, connect to the Quran al

-Karim.

I ask Allah to help us to take

benefit from what He has given us, and

to thank Him for it.

And we ask Allah to be pleased with

us and never to be displeased.

And peace and blessings be upon the Prophet

and his family and companions.