Hashem's command to man when He created man was, Na'aseh adam. The Chiddushei HaRim says, “What does it mean, Na'aseh adam?” Na'aseh adam means, let us make man. And simply, Rashi says it means that He took advice from the angels. We'll conclude with this thought. The Chiddushei HaRim says, “Here's what it means.” It means that Hashem, when He created man, bent down to man and said, “Listen, I just created you. Now, let's build you together. I put a soul inside of you. I gave you a body. Now, you and I will work. Together, we'll work to make you, you.”
I don't know why yesterday, randomly, I had this observation. In the middle of dancing on Purim with grandchildren and nephews and whatever, I saw all these kids and these little babies. So, you know what's interesting? Since the sixth day of creation, from Adam HaRishon until now, there has never been a person who was born as an adult. No one was ever born as an adult. Everyone is born zero days, zero weeks old—a little baby. Everyone who's ever been born cried, couldn't talk, couldn't walk, couldn't see, couldn't roll over. Every single person that's ever been born. Why does Hashem make it that way? We were once little babies. Prominent people were once little babies. Why does Hashem make it that way?
Because the whole way life is meant to be lived is through a healthy process of slow development. First, you learn; you struggle to roll over. You cry to get your food. Then you start to sit up, and then you start to crawl, and then you start to walk, and then you start to run, and that's how you develop your life. And every single component of our life is the same thing. First, you start to roll over. Then you sit up, then you crawl, then you walk, then you run. That's how all of our life is supposed to be. It's supposed to be. Let's develop man. Let's go through the process. Let's go through the toil. Let's go to the struggle. Let's go to success. Let's go through failure. Let's go through learning experience. If the learning experience, the learning experience. Let's toil over a story. Let's toil over homework. Let's toil over schoolwork. Let's toil over learning. Let's toil over life's problems. And as we toil over the process, we will become a man.
And now there's an invention that's here to make a two-year-old into a 40-year-old. And that is incredibly dangerous. I did not provide any solution for you today. I didn't even try. I just want you to understand what this is. Because as the world is hyper-excited about AI, everyone's investing in it. Everyone's trying to bring it into their business because everyone knows it's going to make the world move at the speed of light. You cannot imagine how quickly we're going to be able to create things and formulate things and move things and know things. It is unbelievable. So the world is drunk on this. Like I said, the world is investing tens and tens and tens of trillions of dollars, with a T, into this technology because it knows what it can do.
If you are a believing Jew, if you're a Jew that believes in toil, that believes in work, that believes in Hashem, that believes in Torah, then you're a Jew that does not want to give away your brain. You don't want their world. You don't want to give away your toil that comes with working with your brain. You don't want this society that's on the internet to be able to think for you and create what should be what you believe in. You don't want to be able to see and not know the difference between the truth and lies. And you don't want to be tempted until you can't do anything without it. So our job as Jews is to protect ourselves and protect the ideal that God told man when He created. He said, “You want to live a healthy, holy, positive, happy life? Don't be fooled by AI, because every form of technology that came till now came with a promise of happiness and it still has not delivered. The iPhone hasn't delivered. The iPad hasn't delivered. The internet hasn't delivered. The television hasn't delivered. None of these technologies has delivered for us: social media, Facebook, friendship, happiness, togetherness. Social media—all of it has lied to us.” None of it has delivered to us what we hoped it would. None of it has given us real joy, real contentment, real strength, real intelligence, and real happiness.
Well, this is the same lie. And we need to realize that, as long as we are Jews, and as long as we are the greatest nation in the world, we're a nation that's ready to toil. Na'aseh adam is part of our mission statement. Let us get to work. Let us learn with toil. Let us think through life with toil. Let us work with our hands. Let us work with our mind. And don't give away our brain to anybody. If we can protect this, then we can overcome the challenge that soon will be AI.