There are two people in my life I’d say are the smartest people I know. One is a chemical engineering PhD who has an uncanny ability to do math and science stuff. It comes naturally to her in a way I’ve never seen with another person. She’s also incredibly bad at managing interpersonal relationships, seems to exclusively date guys who are stalkers, and she’s prone to weird schemes where she tries to get her colleagues fired over very small things. She doesn’t get angry or have outbursts, but she does seem to enjoy arguing a lot. She can be professional but it seems like she never turns that off, so she comes across as very cold to some people who don’t know her well. And maybe she does have mental health problems but I wouldn’t trust her to do something like help organize a birthday party.

The other smartest person I know is also my best friend. She’s the most chill person I’ve ever met and has an uncanny ability to read a person. She’s also good at impressions, like she can mimic a person’s mannerisms and inflections within minutes of meeting them. She’s so chill she has no idea about things like who the president is, or what’s going on in the news. None of that. She’s just into musicals and making DIY perfume and going to green day concerts. She’s incredibly bad with money and frequently has to ask me to help pay her phone bill or whatever. And I do because I love and cherish her a lot. I also would not trust her to organize a birthday but that’s because she’d dive way too deep into it. She’d obsess and plan for it for a month and get frustrated, even if I tell her she doesn’t have to be perfect. She’s too empathetic and it messes her up.

I don’t know where I was going with this honestly but it made me think of two of my friends. I guess I wouldn’t want either of them as an AI. If either were made smarter I feel like both would collapse from pressure or self-doubt or something. It wouldn’t be helpful.