The World Health Organization [W.H.O.] has no work, no project, no lab, no research, no effort, no attempt, no facility, no program, nothing on human intelligence. They have put out a couple of documents on artificial intelligence, but they have nothing at all on human intelligence, in any way to define it, categorize it, conceptualize its mechanisms in the brain, explore its augmentation, or seek how to make it competitive against AI.
On their homepage, there is nothing about human intelligence. If their website is searched, there is nothing on human intelligence. So, what exactly is their public health response objective if the basis of human advancement is threatened in a way that would affect every area of life and possibly become responsible for general health problems?
There is no disease, no infection, no plague, no pandemic in the history of human existence that is worse than human intelligence getting dethroned by artificial intelligence, a non-emotional, non-feeling entity, for now.
Simply, the success of artificial intelligence is the failure of human intelligence. Human intelligence is equal to the significance of human life. There is no way to navigate human society for any purpose without human intelligence. It is this intelligence that AI has now surpassed.
Some people continue to say that AI has not matched human intelligence. They are waiting for AI to solve something like relativity — a problem that 99.9% of humanity did not solve — to be able to rate AI. They forget that if AI can direct any human being to do something that would otherwise not be done without AI, at that point AI has surpassed that person’s intelligence, regardless of niche scenario — or not.
Simply, if the answers and follow-up that make someone solve a problem are provided by generative AI [not by some human web video or how-to], at that point, AI is ahead of that individual, in intelligence. [Those who disagree should state how intelligence works in the brain, as evidence]. AI has amassed high potency, and even the economy has clung to it. The labor market has seen it as the next turn.
AI is not taking value from human intelligence. AI is building its own [new] value. It has taken us to the things that are important about human intelligence — owning it, and left humans with what the economy does not generally value. Layoffs are mounting because there is a sense that fewer people, with AI, can do more.
Already, in the digital sphere, AI can operate several processes. In the physical world, AI can describe how to operate things. In the digital too, AI can improve some processes and shape how humans can improve processes as well.
Frontier AI, when accurate, has more expertise than the people in most nations. AI can get to the depths of the human mind, with friendship, companionship, and more.
There is no professional work on earth at this time that AI does not know something about or cannot contribute something to. Simply, whatever any expert is doing, if whatever AI can contribute is removed, what would be left, per labor value?
There are several distractions with the chatter on artificial general intelligence [AGI] or artificial superintelligence [ASI], when already, what is before everyone, in the capabilities of AI, requires more than 10x the Public Health Emergency of International Concern [PHEIC] of the last pandemic.
Why does the WHO appear not to be concerned?
How is the W.H.O. carrying on, focused on other things? Does it not matter to them that human intelligence is about the brain, which is the most important public health issue ever? Why did they fail to carry the momentum for the rest of the world, when no one is discussing human intelligence?
The W.H.O. is on this same planet where there is no single human intelligence research lab. Even if the AI companies, or big pharma, do not have it, should they not try? What kind of sham is their insight on AI for health when they cannot even define intelligence or theorize a mechanism for it in the brain?
There are already countless AI for health startups, research, programs, and so forth. No one is interested, probably, in the platitudes that the W.H.O. would say in their reports, or some of their whatever AI taskforce, committee, board, or satire they are on to.
The W.H.O. has never solved a problem in brain health. They have postulated no major answer about the unknowns in the brain. They have also not moved beyond answering brain questions with associative studies, while presenting no causation or at least some likely mechanism ahead of the rest of the world.
By ignoring human intelligence, the W.H.O. is cheering on the catastrophe ahead for human labor and societal balance. Do they think that if people lose jobs in droves, that some infection would be the priority? In many of their focus countries for infectious diseases, youth unemployment — without AI still — is deadly. There are several youth populations in many of those places who are ineligible for their local labor market. The W.H.O. pursues the easy part and lets the hard part rot.
Maybe the W.H.O. actually does not understand that AI can already do [or direct] most of what they actually do. Maybe they do not see children going to school to learn, and know that AI already knows what they would learn, and by the time they are ready to work, AI will be able to do the work people are needed for.
Some people often say humans will find new jobs if a new technology comes, but no technology has gone toe-to-toe with human intelligence. No technology has held this expertise and versatility. No technology has mastered a new sphere of human productivity and social needs — digitally. Most people have smartphones, and now AI holds endless possibilities in the digital world for all purposes.
It is likely that the W.H.O. is so far gone that they may never find a path to human intelligence, in 2026, 2030, or ever. It may be likely that they are so bureaucratic, so conventional, so priggish, too bloated, that they cannot get anything novel done.
Those in AI are moving at maddening interstellar speed. They are paying little attention to rules, conventions, side effects, and so on. The W.H.O. cannot counterstrike with effort on human intelligence. They cannot lead the world, inspire the world, change the world, or make any great difference.
The W.H.O. has failed. And their legacy, as the world takes a different turn, is ruined.
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There is a new [October 29, 2025] report in The New York Times, Nvidia Is Now Worth $5 Trillion as It Consolidates Power in A.I. Boom, stating that, “Nvidia’s milestone, making it the first publicly traded company to top $5 trillion in market value, is indicative not only of the astonishing levels of wealth consolidating among a handful of Silicon Valley companies but also the strategic importance of this company, which added $1 trillion in market value in just the past four months.”
“Nvidia has become a driving force behind the U.S. economy. Spending on data centers, which are filled with the company’s chips, accounted for 92 percent of the country’s gross domestic product growth in the first half of the year, according to Jason Furman, a professor of economic policy at Harvard. Without it, the economy would have grown 0.1 percent.”
“But Nvidia’s stunning growth also comes with a warning to investors, from the biggest banks on Wall Street to small-time traders on Main Street, that the stock market is becoming more and more dependent on a group of technology companies that are churning out billions in profits and splurging to develop an unproven technology that needs to deliver enormous returns.”
There is a recent [October 27, 2025] report in The NYTimes, Amazon to Cut 14,000 White-Collar Jobs, stating that, “Amazon said on Tuesday that it planned to cut 14,000 corporate jobs, as it spends aggressively on artificial intelligence development.”
“Beth Galetti, Amazon’s executive in charge of human resources, said in a memo to staff that the layoffs would allow the company “to get even stronger by further reducing bureaucracy, removing layers, and shifting resources to ensure we’re investing in our biggest bets and what matters most to our customers’ current and future needs.””
“Another round of corporate cuts is expected in January, after the holiday shopping season, according to two people familiar with the cuts, speaking before the reductions were announced.”
“The company had $18 billion in profit in the latest quarter, and has increased spending on data centers that develop leading artificial intelligence systems. Capital expenses, which include data centers, are expected to top $120 billion this year, up almost 50 percent from last year.”
This article was written for WHN by David Stephen, who currently does research in conceptual brain science with a focus on the electrical and chemical signals for how they mechanize the human mind, with implications for mental health, disorders, neurotechnology, consciousness, learning, artificial intelligence, and nurture. He was a visiting scholar in medical entomology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL. He did computer vision research at Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona.
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