In this week's news coverage, mainstream media has devoted a lot of screen time and column inches to a non - story about an obscure tech - nerd resigning from a job in an AI startup because he fears that the lack of ethics among the Silicon Valley billionaire psychopath class will be so blinded by the pursuit of profit they will look way while intelligent machines unleash rogue AI agents that could kill us all by 2030.
It seems the aforementioned billionaire psychopaths, Bill Gates and company have given up on trying to create the virus that would start the next pandemic and the next COVID psyop because all thinking people know that despite a hugely expensive propaganda campaign to convince us that COVID would kill us all if we did not comply with orders issued on behalf of the billionaire psychopaths, the disease actually did not kill all that many people, and most of those who did die were a thousand years old and had at least a dozen deadly ailments.
I point this out because the recent scaremongering around Artificial Intelligence becoming an existential threat has all the hallmarks of a fear-and-panic psy - op to convince us we are in great danger and only by surrendering more of our rights and freedoms to increasingly fascistic governments can we be safe. Whether the takeover by AI is oligarchic insanity of socialist stupidity, powerful people are determined to make it a reality.
Now some habitually sceptical old gits like me may be thinking at this stage “hmmm, haven't we been somewhere like this before”?
But I’m sure the terminally gullible, those who are wise enough to know we must never question authority, will hasten to reassure you that this is the way real life definitely works. It is pure coincidence that suddenly everyone across the entirety of the political punditry spectrum is engaged in amplifying the same message: AI is coming to replace all us difficult humans.
/but as I commented in a thread on one of the national news organisation's sites a few days ago, no matter how many very powerful computers are linked together in a neural network, no matter how many terabytes of stolen date are in its Large Language Model, so long as there is one human around to throw the main power switch to 'OFF' and cut the feeds to the internet as soon as an AI agent steps out of line we have nothing to fear.
We need to keep our compasses aligned true common sense. IMHO, we are in the midst of a CIA style info shock & awe op staged by all the first tier players that control contemporary civ: corporate capitalists, their politicians, their government and their media. As I’ve mentioned many times over the past few years, the CIA and spook nation operate in the fog of information available…. “the fog of war”.
We’re being sprayed with every crisis they’ve ever dreamed up, all at once, in an effort to save the Casino which is obsolete and in collapse. They still have buckets of humanity’s money assets hoarded to themselves, but they are paranoid that the People will react to their nightmare and take it all away For good.
The governing class are way in over their heads. They are desperate enough to allow a war-mongering psychopath as prez, blow up geopolitical energy; blow up the domestic and world economy; sell off, strip-mine and clear cut national forests; non-liability clause all corporations and gov’t agencies; invest in, subsidize and arm AI, data centers and micro-nukes; terminate all regulatory constraints for the 1%… all just to COVER THEIR COLLAPSE of THEIR DREAMED OF TECHNOCRTIC UTOPIA taking us with it.
How do we stop them? By keeping our eyes on prize – what we want Life to be, not them. A real democracy where we make the rules and we get the rewards. Tax the rich into civility enforced by lack of excess capital and access to more excess capital which enables their projecting of authority to decide the future of humanity. We have right to make and enforce rules that make life not only safe for humanity but enjoyable. It’s up to us, we can and must control AI.
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