In recent years, the rise of AI in the public consciousness has resulted in fears that AI will eventually replace humans or take over society in a dystopian future. While there are indeed ways where AI can be abused, the nature of AI limits what it can do, making most of these fears unfounded. For the foreseeable future, humans will remain the dominant form of intellect on Earth, with AI merely a tool.
Harnessing the power of human intellect is CosmoQuest, one of the projects under the nonprofit Planetary Science Institute. Founded in 2012 by astronomer, educator, and science podcaster Dr. Pamela L. Gay, CosmoQuest is a community where people can come together and work on space science research, learn astronomy & planetary science, and collaborate with scientists in various meaningful ways that will advance humanity's understanding of the universe. By bringing together the collective intelligence of thousands of people from all over the world, CosmoQuest can do things that a smaller team would take an extremely long time to do while leveraging human ingenuity and insight – something that AI fundamentally lacks.
