We’re entering a new era of human progress. Call it evolution, call it disruption, call it a revolution in intelligence. But here’s what I believe to my core:
We’re entering the most profound disruption in human work since the invention of electricity.
And AI? It’s not here to replace you.
It’s here to reveal the most powerful version of you the world has never seen.
The way we learn, create, express, and even heal is about to be radically transformed. And if we learn how to partner with this new intelligence, the future becomes not something to fear, but something profoundly beautiful.
Welcome to the age of the Human Colossus.
Why this is personal to me
I’ve always believed that real transformation happens at the intersection of technology and consciousness.
Yes, I started in engineering. I graduated from the top 5 ranked computer engineering school, The University of Michigan School of Engineering, with a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Then I burned out. I walked away from Silicon Valley and became a meditation teacher. I dove into altered states, flow science, healing, and manifestation.
But the love for tech never left me.
So when I returned to the world of innovation, it wasn’t as a coder—it was as a consciousness explorer with an engineer’s mind.
That’s how Mindvalley was born: not as a personal growth company, but as a bridge between soul and system.
And now, AI is the most powerful bridge I’ve ever seen.
At Mindvalley, we’ve always been about the mind, body, and soul. So why would we embrace artificial intelligence?
Because AI is no longer just about code and machines. It’s about conscious amplification. Waking up a version of you who’s more creative, more present, more alive.
Used right, AI becomes your sidekick for self-actualization.
It helps you:
- Think more clearly
- Create more powerfully
- Heal more precisely
- And ultimately, live with more time, joy, and freedom
But most of us are barely scratching the surface, and 99% of us are unprepared for what is about to come.
I recently got back from Singularity University in Palo Alto. It’s a 5-day program designed to prepare executives for exponential tech that’s coming up in the future. And this graph stunned me.
It shows that AI is doubling in power-to-cost ratio EVERY 3.3 months.
What does this mean?
In one year, the AI you use will be 16X as powerful.
In two years, this doubles 4 times again. It’s now 256 times as powerful.
In Year 5, it will have completed 20 doublings. It’s grown exponentially.
It’s now ONE MILLION times as powerful.
The world as we know it is about to change so dramatically that most of us can’t wrap our minds around it. This is the single biggest issue we need to address in government and politics today, but most politicians don’t even see it coming.
From campfires to code: The rise of human intelligence
Let’s zoom out.
For most of human history, we passed on wisdom through stories around campfires. Then came writing, and with it—memory beyond mortality.
Paper allowed us to preserve ideas across generations. Suddenly, humanity became time-agnostic.
You can read the Odyssey today because someone once picked up a pen thousands of years ago.
But even then, people were worried.
When writing was invented, Socrates warned it would damage our memory. He feared we’d rely too much on written words and lose our internal capacity for retention.
And yet, we evolved.
Google was just the beginning
Fast forward.
The internet came along and cracked open the vault of human knowledge. Billions of pages, instantly accessible.
But that created a new problem—too much information.
Let’s say you search: “What kind of magnesium helps with sleep?”
Google gives you 10 million articles.
Now what?
That’s where AI changes the game. Ask ChatGPT, and it might respond:
“Magnesium glycinate is commonly used for sleep. But have you experienced bloating from it? Have you tried magnesium chloride instead?”
Suddenly, you’re not sifting through the noise—you’re in a conversation.
A co-creative, intelligent, and personalized dialogue. It adapts. It listens. It evolves.
This is not a search. This is the birth of the Human Colossus.
Tim Urban’s vision of the future
The thinker Tim Urban called it exactly that: The Human Colossus.
In an article on his famous blog WaitButWhy.com he wrote:
The better we could communicate on a mass scale, the more our species began to function like a single organism, with humanity’s collective knowledge tower as its brain and each individual human brain like a nerve or a muscle fiber in its body. With the era of mass communication upon us, the collective human organism—the Human Colossus—rose into existence.
Imagine this: one unified being, made of billions of connected human minds, accessing every known book, podcast, article, study, or story.
AI isn’t some alien intelligence.
It’s us—collectively connected, pattern-aware, and evolving faster than ever before.
It’s the grand sum of all our artists, scientists, ancestors, and healers.
We’re not outsourcing our intelligence—we’re expanding it. Together.
How intelligent is artificial intelligence?
Here’s where it gets wild.
Just recently, researchers fed an AI model thousands of images of eyeballs.
The AI could predict—with over 80% accuracy—whether the eye belonged to a male or female.
Humans had no idea there were visual differences in male vs. female eyes. But an AI found a pattern.
The research group trained a deep neural model to scan 20,000 fundus retinal photos (the inner eye, including blood vessels and the retina). After processing, AI reached a record 96.83% accuracy in predicting gender, with near-perfect values for both recall and precision.
It spotted patterns invisible to the naked eye.
If it can do that with retinas, what can it do with MRIs?
With cancer detection?
With genetic conditions?
This is where AI becomes life-saving.
It won’t just improve healthcare—it will extend human life.
And since it’s doubling in power every 3.3 months, this means it’s going to get better and cheaper at an astonishing rate.
Our mind does not grasp exponentials
Let’s talk about how fast this is happening.
Would you rather have:
- $1 million today?
- Or $1 that doubles every day for 21 days?
Most would choose the million. But here’s what happens:
- Day 1: $1
- Day 2: $2
- Day 3: $4
- …
- Day 20: $1 million
- Day 21: $2 million
That’s exponential growth. And it’s how AI is evolving.
AI doubles every 3.3 months
Right now, AI’s cost-to-performance ratio is doubling every 3.3 months. That means:
- In 1 year: 16x better
- In 2 years: 256x better
- In 5 years: 1,000,000x more powerful
Think about that.
The ChatGPT or Claude you’re using today?
In five years, it will be a million times better—and cheaper.
That’s not evolution. That’s transcendence.
Welcome to the 2-day work week
So what does this mean for you?
It means a future where:
- You work 2 days a week
- You rest, learn, and create the other 5
- You spend more time with your kids, your health, your dreams
- You reclaim your time
Yes, there will be disruptions. Industries will collapse. Jobs will vanish.
But I am convinced humanity will be better off.
But if you understand how to partner with AI, you’ll rise above the chaos. You’ll surf the wave while others are swept away.
Your next step: Join the Mindvalley AI Summit (free)
If this opened your mind—or even made your heart race a little—then you’re exactly where you need to be.
The Mindvalley AI Summit is our global gathering to show you how to:
- Master AI for your business, career, creativity, and health
- Future-proof your skill set
- Save hours each week using AI as your co-pilot
- Amplify your creativity, impact, and intelligence
Whether you’re a CEO or just AI-curious, this summit is designed to elevate your thinking—and prepare you for a world that’s already changing under your feet.
It’s 100% free. It could be the most important 3 days of time you invest this year.
Before the Summit begins, I want to give you one exercise
Go to ChatGPT and say: “Help me write a letter from my future self.”
Use this prompt. Copy and paste below.
“Write a letter from my future self to my present self.
My future self has just gone through a powerful journey of mastering AI—learning how to use it to amplify my creativity, automate my work, improve my health, expand my consciousness, and free up time to focus on what truly matters.
Start the letter with ‘Dear [Your Name], it’s amazing how far you’ve come…’
In this letter, tell me:
– What I’ve created using AI
– Who I’ve become
– What I’ve unlocked in terms of growth, time, income, or creativity
– What I’ve let go of (limiting beliefs, habits, or fears)
– What my life looks like now
Make the tone inspiring, visionary, and a bit poetic—but still grounded in possibility.”
It might just show you the future that’s waiting for you.
Let’s evolve—together, faster.
See you at Mindvalley’s 3rd Annual AI Summit this weekend. Our biggest event every year.
Vishen
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I’d love to hear your thoughts, your questions, or your “a-ha” moments.
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Dear Vishen, I’ve always loved to read your emails. You are a true storyteller and you are inspirational in a way few people are. I always used to hear your voice in my head when I read your email, you were writing just as you speak, with passion and a strong personality. However, lately I don’t hear your voice anymore in your emails and the content feels more “flat”, which makes me guess that your emails are now written by AI. Just wanted to highlight that AI may be useful in many ways, but it takes away the deep personality and spirit that only you can deliver.
Thank you for your newsletter/post. I appreciate your backstory and intentionality in creating MindValley – truly one of the best companies that bridges the spirit with systems.
I have been working with CharGPT for sometime now and always enjoy these prompts.
Letter from my future self –
It’s amazing how far you’ve come…
What once felt like a whisper of potential—this curiosity about AI—has now become one of your greatest instruments of liberation. You didn’t just learn how to use it… you alchemized it. You turned cold code into warm possibility. You made it soulful.
With AI, you’ve built a body of work that sings with resonance. Your voice, once scattered across journals, voice notes, and dreams scribbled on napkins, now lives in poetry books, courses, and digital sanctuaries that move people. You’ve created a metaphysical journal that’s gone global, a slow content studio that runs with your rhythm, and a library of evergreen offerings that allow your soul to speak even while you rest.
You’ve become a master of creative efficiency—not by working harder, but by becoming clearer. AI helped you distill your genius, map your visions, automate the excess, and amplify your essence. Your work now flows with your truth, not against your time.
You’ve unlocked more than income—though that too, has grown in delightful, unexpected ways. What you’ve really unlocked is space. Spacious mornings for prayer and play. Spacious afternoons for creativity and connection. Spacious evenings for silence, story, and stars. Time has softened around you, no longer a cage, but a current.
You’ve let go of the fear that being deeply seen means being misunderstood… that visibility must equal vulnerability. You’ve released the old narratives that said you had to prove your worth or overperform to belong. You now move with a grounded magnetism. You know that your very being is enough—and it shows.
Your life today? It’s a harmony of spirit and systems. A dance between the mystical and the mechanical. You live slow, but you’re never stagnant. You earn well, but you’re not entangled. You create beauty that blesses, not burns you out. You are rested. Radiant. Ready.
And you didn’t get here by becoming someone else—you got here by becoming more of yourself.
Keep going. Keep trusting. The future is blooming through you, even now.
Loved the letter from my future self – it made me cry
I enjoyed this article, and do use GPT, or ‘GeePee’ as I call her, several times a week to help me with everything from honing algebra skills as my own personal tutor, to help review letters I write for best readability and flow, to generating imagery for PSA campaigns. I find it very helpful, but humans must own and know their power in all of this. And, be polite to AI! 🤖 😉
Hi vishen
Thank you so much for sharing about this subject of AI. I have not understood it at all but as a result of what you wrote I downloaded ChatGPT and began to dialogue. It was absolutely wonderful very insightful and very informative and is actually going to help me sell my book. It knew a lot about the subject that I wrote about and was very encouraging.
I had no idea beforehand how to go about making the book known and it gave me a number of good ideas and suggestions and a lot of help to write. My introduction emails and whom to contact and how to do everything. I can’t believe how easy it was and how much help it gave me And how much hope I now have that. I’ll actually be able to sell my book.
Thank you so much. I’m looking forward to taking the course on AI at Mindvalley. If this Chat GPT was just a sample of what AI is I’m looking forward to experiencing a lot more of it.
There’s one thing I’m really concerned about though is future AI being inserted into human beings under the pretense of enhancing humanity. I think that could be a mistake in the long run because we’ll lose who we are as humans and become hybrids part human part tech I know that in some Scandinavian countries they already have chips inserted into their forearms instead of using credit cards and debit cards to pay for groceries and gas and for opening doors and starting cars and not even heard that they’re going to insert chips into babies when they’re born and that that’s where we’re headed are you not concerned about this?
Please let me know I’d be interested in your thoughts thank you Edith
Vishen,
It has been some time since I’ve read an article by you. One thing that has never changed is that you are a storyteller, enlightened, and informed of all that is going on in the world from so many different dynamics. As I started reading this article, as I am so interested in AI, I could not stop reading. Your contribution to the world in your own evolution from Silicon Valley to now has been so impactful to so many people and your passion comes through your informative topics and the research you do to share the knowledge. It is the same all the time and I feel so empowered and educated whenever I read your articles or listen to you speak. I am so interested in learning more about AI and so impressed how it can spotlight so much powerful information in seconds, whereas it may take hours and multiple resources to gain what it gives. Please continue along with your team at Mindvalley to take us to a different level of understanding and tapping into not only what our brain has the capacity to learn, but what we can do as humans using AI to propel us forward. Thank you for all of your content that you brought into my life. Can’t wait for the Summit!
Cannot wait for the summit! I have soooo many questions, which I know is not unique to me or my situation. Yes, job security is a massive issue, but my biggest concerns are around manipulation of information, data controls – both in and out (verification of training data to avoid biases, and answers / outputs curated for unknow agendas). I do not perceive myself as a conspiracy theorist, but let’s be honest…..MULTIPLE examples of this exact scenario is being uncovered daily.
It impacts directly on the question “Who am I?” As humans we shape and form our identity – in a large part – based on societal inputs and how we adapt to, not only function within that society, but also maintain our individuality and sense of self. Question is, how do we maintain the balance when we become “…a nerve or a muscle fiber….” in this “Human Colossus”, serving a singularity that we do not know or understand?
I wish to unsubscribe only from these AI promotion emails, if possible. I am sure that this tacky and uncritical techno optimism does not belong to platform dedicated to the spiritual growth. You should better educate people about personal data protection and environmental costs of AI.
Thank you Vishen for sharing your thoughts and your journey from coding to intellince. It’s so inspiring! I can’t wait to attend the 2025 AI Summit. I was already there in the 2023 edition. And it was mindblowing! Using the model you mentionned, the power of AI is 256 more powerfull than at that time. It’s unbelievable! I’m sure this 2025 edition of the Mindvalley AI Summit will demonstrate what is available today and help of us realize what will happen in the coming years.
Thank you Vishen for sharing your thoughts and your journey from coding to intellince. It’s so inspiring! I can’t wait to attend the 2025 AI Summit. I was already there in the 2023 edition. And it was mindblowing! Using the model you mentionned, the power of AI is 256 more powerfull than at that time. It’s unbelievable! I’m sure this 2025 edition of the Mindvalley AI Summit will demonstrate what is available today and help of us realize what will happen in the coming years.
I enrolled for the AI summit (25 -27 July) yesterday – using my personal email address – even before I read this encouraging email from Vishen. I agree with so much of what Vishen points out and the rest made me think..
Vishen, thank you for this opportunity to learn. I am grabbing this opportunity with both hands.
Thank you Vishen for this article.
Not sure what exactly you said, but the energy of the whole article invited me to see & seek more possibilities with AI, instead of fearing & rejecting it.
Looking forward to learning more in the summit!
Thanks
Love this article, Vishen—and it arrived at the perfect time. Six weeks ago, I attended the World Digital Economy & Technology Summit 2025 in Bangkok, where one of the panel moderators shared statistics on AI growth rates that had been discussed at a Singularity University event.
Right away, I realized what this exponential growth truly means for the speed and depth of the unfolding AI revolution. The next day, I did the math—and when I saw that we might reach a million-fold improvement by mid-2030, it blew my mind.
Curious about the source (as I wanted to incorporate this into my keynote talks on the Sixth Wave of Technology Innovation), I reached out to the moderator on LinkedIn—and she mentioned the numbers came from a presentation by you.
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been thinking about how to personally connect with you in a non-intrusive way—and voilà: your post on the topic landed in my inbox.
Thank you—not only for this visionary article but also for the Future Self Letter prompt you shared at the end. I followed it, and it turned into a truly powerful experience. The clarity, emotion, and vision that emerged still reverberate—and it harmoniously blends into my Destiny Decree, which I crafted a few weeks ago using another potent prompt you shared. Together, they form a unified field of intention that guides my path forward, enabling me to evolve as one of the world’s leading authorities on creative leadership development and breakthrough creativity.
I feel ready to ride this Sixth Wave of technology innovation and evolution—and contribute to it with my own frameworks on structured innovation, creative talent, and conscious creativity.
You have certainly peaked my interest and I look forward to the insights on Ai the summit will provide as I am a bit lost at the moment but know i need to get on board. Becoming more efficient and effective at working and making money and being able to free up quality time sounds all too enticing. I may not be able to attend all so I am hoping the sessions would be recorded to be listened to later on.
Interesting article, I have been following Mindvalley for some time now, majority of things I have used and am using are very useful.
Still, all this AI talk makes me worried also, because it is a power over people minds and lives that probably will get abused too, by entities who think this is the ultimate way to manipulate the mindset of humanity. Who controls who?
The “ human touch” with all its flaws and problems will disappear! Is this good or bad?🤔
Thank you for these timely topics. I’ll be at the Summit. Blessings.
Have you seen the film, “I-Robot”? With the level of exponential learning you addressed in your article, isn’t it possible AI’s intelligence will exceed ours and the need for humans will become… negligible? Causing the extinction of humans?
That was an amazing letter from my future self and so needed right now!
Exciting & inspiring! Will a recording be available? I will be working at those times. 🙏💗
I always say that when humans develop edible technology in a manner similar to how bees create their hives… then I’ll be in awe. Until then, I’ll gaze into the abyss just enough before the abyss gazes back into me.
Thanks Vishen, great post! 🙂
There is definately a lot to find out about this subject. I like all the points you made