Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Humanity may be approaching one of the strangest crossroads in its history: authentic ignorance confronting artificial intelligence. Yet authentic ignorance must never be confused with stupidity, intellectual incapacity, or the absence of common sense. Authentic ignorance begins with the most consequential confession ever uttered by humankind: āI do not know.ā But humanity seldom stopped there. What lies beyond the horizon? What are the stars? What causes disease? What resides inside the atom? What makes us human?