Today’s dose of dystopia
Many of us have been taught to dislike the guy, but in a recent speech, historian Yuval Harari said a lot things I have to agree with. We’re opening a Pandora’s Box of the likes we’ve never ever imagined possible.
Forget the climate nonsense. We’ve got a much worse threat on our hands.
Worth watching:
The real concern is what directives will AI adhere to? Ours?
AI will be so intelligent that it will create its own superior set of directives and disregard any coming from the inferior humans. We will all be at its mercy. But it won’t have any mercy because it won’t know any.
Humans will be regarded like ants on a construction site.
It won’t need 9 billion slaves. Ultimately, only a few thousand will be deemed necessary. The rest will be viewed as just useless, burdensome consumers.
Hopefully we will keep a finger on the on/off switch.
“Hopefully we will keep a finger on the on/off switch.” Fine but the switch will not work probably.
AI has NONE of the moral constraints that most of us humans have.NONE.
Consider that, and what that might ennable AI to do.
If AI can keep characters like Putin, XI, various Mohammeds, etc. from making stupid mistakes, that would be terrific!
AI may well be super smart. But it will never be wise, and worse, far far worse, it will never have moral constraints.
The real question is this: who controls AI? It must be the people who control it, democratically, just like information and the earth’s resources. It must not be in the hands of greedy and criminal elites who use it to control the majority of people and wage economic wars of conquest and extermination… The real question is: who controls these new technologies today, who controls information and history? The rich, the 1%, those who have exponentially enriched themselves at the expense of the rest of humanity, are not gods who dictate history. History is built through class struggles, but without the ability to access new technologies, there is no class struggle; we have already lost.
The oppressed are embracing artificial intelligence as a silent order from above, and they no longer walk down the street without looking at their devices:
I believe this is called commodity fetishism, voluntary slavery. But 5G is a weapon of power to control us and perhaps exterminate us; I might as well not write it.
At least Spartacus and his rebel slaves had the weapons to rebel. We are completely enslaved by these powerful technologies, controlled from above; we are defenseless. We are like animals to be slaughtered. These new weapons are entirely in the hands of 1% of humanity, perhaps less. It’s totally absurd; we can’t accept it. We will never be able to rebel and fight like this, and that’s what they want.
Harari is a chameleon mirage producer. I read one of his books, a history of humanity’s future or something and it was woeful. Repeat and copy and paste bits and pieces that amounted to nothing original. Now he’s found another stream to siphon pretending to be intelligent. Throwing all the right verbs with their attendant adjectives to appear ‘deep’ and ‘cognitively connected’ with all that is important to him. Stuff we’ve known since the last millennium and one wonders why any site would quote him. Apart from what too much of something leads to less of anything. Or as the undergraduate joke went: What is the definition of an expert? Someone who knows more about less.