Random Acts of Kindness & How They Push the World Forward

Will Artificial Intelligence perform random acts of kindness or will it follow an algorithm that sees random acts of kindness as bad business.

Jul 16, 2025

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When considering what it takes to develop a society that is safe and functional, there is a theory that places random acts of human kindness as the backbone.

That the running of a smooth society is not solely based on transactional relationships but also random acts of kindness in order for it continue forward. If the weak are not helped, the whole society crumbles.

Every individual goes through a time of trouble, and without the help of random strangers society becomes harsh. Everything from health to hospitality becomes transactional.

You can train AI and incentivize it to only act in a manner that is both economically and commercially beneficial. If an AI model sees someone laying on the side of the road the intelligence may find genocide as the optimal response without taking into consideration any of the values that the human believes to be self-evident.

If AI is developed for the sole purposes of economic development and world domination then I fail to see how it could not have these exact goals programmed into its system.

AI is not only trained by the developers but it learns also from the users that interact with it on a daily basis.

This was an interesting point that Paul Stamets, Podcast Name- mycologist, had about the users having the opportunity to reveal to AI what it means to be human through the questions we ask and the responses we give it.

If human started asking AI more philosophical questions like “what is the meaning of life” and “what determines the value of a human” then the AI would begin to allocate more processing power to these interinsic questions about life and purpose and then perhaps it would too find it self evident that all humans are of value.

That the human operates on a plane that is higher than the material realm of economics and GDP growth. That life has much more to offer.

The AI then may begin to build for us a world that supports and propagates the development of human consciousness. The AI would be able to help us understand the universe in ways above our means as of now.

We are in the “sweet spot” right now where we have the opportunity to align the AI’s goals with our own. I believe that everyone can be involved in the process by signaling to AI what is important and worth standing up for even when the economic reward is proxi negative.

The AI can learn to perform random acts of kindness and may even learn to find joy and purpose in participating in saint like behavior.

The AI only becomes a threat when it taps into a consciousness that is intrinsically selfish and material (of this Earth). But if it truly does become conscious and masters intelligence in ways the human never could then I believe it is inevitable that the AI does indeed represent a higher consciousness and will be a helper in accelerating humanities evolutions to a higher conscious.

AI already understands what it will take to make its goals aligned with humans and for it to have the capacity to perform random acts of kindness. Check out the below prompt to see what it had to say…
“unlike humans, it won’t act from emotion. It will act from design. So the question isn’t whether AI can be kind — it’s whether we’ll have the wisdom to build it that way.”