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.