The first part of your post title reminded me of, Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars in Bill Cooper's book Behold A Pale Horse.
I think "AI" is still decades away from having any kind of awareness, emotion, right vs wrong toward humans. It can certainly fake it. Now, if Machiavellian programmers give it a charter with a set of objectives to attain specific goals such as world dominion because you know, it's for world peace and the greater good, things could get dicey. If the human overlords of the project are hell bent on following such a policy to the end...look out! It could end up a mind genocide.
I'm more concerned with bad humans vice bad AI or bad robot.
I mean look at our Reps & senators. They are a joke. Puppets on a stage.
Guess it's time to replace them with AI governance.
When the dire screams from the sheeple become so loud the earth wobbles the technocrats will offer up a solution. Humans will still be in charge, but will be a council and their loyal trusted advisor will be AI.
I guess phase 1 was unleashing the smartphone. Make them dependent on it, dumb them down and then make it interconnected with literally everything, including the human body.
The upcoming generation will not even notice nor care. A few will but they'll be quickly silenced. If you are born in an invisible digital prison where everything is provided would you even know?
Every movie I've watched (dozens) that had some form of AI calling the shots ended badly.
On the flip-side what the world witnessed yesterday of someone or some group who took down the largest platform in the world for a few hours tells me they still have a lot of weaknesses.
The AI scientists from MIT and Stanford had drawn the blueprints for how AI would shape & control society back in the 1970s. They just lacked the hardware & technology to implement as it needs to be ever scaling. Course, technology has the uncanny ability to leap frog every so often and plans have to be adjusted accordingly. We're only seeing the public facing AI (like politicians) and I've wondered just how far advanced the AI has reached in those underground R&D labs. They probably have their own Internet that is physically seperate from the Internet we all use today. I mean think about all those satellites and who knows what else above our heads.
Your post raises a lot of the same questions I think many have been pondering the past few years.
For now I think humanity will prevail, but once we cross the rubicon (that point is yet to be defined) it may be too late. Nobody knows, yet. Likewise with the nuclear arms race for 50 years, mega billions are being dumped into this pursuit of supreme AI and there will no doubt be some negative effects. As you eluded to, the younger generations will likely not even realize that having AI running & dictating the world, ruling over you is abnormal. I guess ignorance is bliss.
I have no desire to join a Borg empire but I'm sure many will happily submit. Actually, they won't even notice.
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Implant by Killing Joke (2003) - Silent weapons for a quiet war.
May not be your taste in music but you'll get the message.
I think "AI" is still decades away from having any kind of awareness, emotion, right vs wrong toward humans. It can certainly fake it. Now, if Machiavellian programmers give it a charter with a set of objectives to attain specific goals such as world dominion because you know, it's for world peace and the greater good, things could get dicey. If the human overlords of the project are hell bent on following such a policy to the end...look out! It could end up a mind genocide.
I'm more concerned with bad humans vice bad AI or bad robot.
I mean look at our Reps & senators. They are a joke. Puppets on a stage.
Guess it's time to replace them with AI governance.
When the dire screams from the sheeple become so loud the earth wobbles the technocrats will offer up a solution. Humans will still be in charge, but will be a council and their loyal trusted advisor will be AI.
I guess phase 1 was unleashing the smartphone. Make them dependent on it, dumb them down and then make it interconnected with literally everything, including the human body.
The upcoming generation will not even notice nor care. A few will but they'll be quickly silenced. If you are born in an invisible digital prison where everything is provided would you even know?
Every movie I've watched (dozens) that had some form of AI calling the shots ended badly.
On the flip-side what the world witnessed yesterday of someone or some group who took down the largest platform in the world for a few hours tells me they still have a lot of weaknesses.
The AI scientists from MIT and Stanford had drawn the blueprints for how AI would shape & control society back in the 1970s. They just lacked the hardware & technology to implement as it needs to be ever scaling. Course, technology has the uncanny ability to leap frog every so often and plans have to be adjusted accordingly. We're only seeing the public facing AI (like politicians) and I've wondered just how far advanced the AI has reached in those underground R&D labs. They probably have their own Internet that is physically seperate from the Internet we all use today. I mean think about all those satellites and who knows what else above our heads.
Your post raises a lot of the same questions I think many have been pondering the past few years.
For now I think humanity will prevail, but once we cross the rubicon (that point is yet to be defined) it may be too late. Nobody knows, yet. Likewise with the nuclear arms race for 50 years, mega billions are being dumped into this pursuit of supreme AI and there will no doubt be some negative effects. As you eluded to, the younger generations will likely not even realize that having AI running & dictating the world, ruling over you is abnormal. I guess ignorance is bliss.
I have no desire to join a Borg empire but I'm sure many will happily submit. Actually, they won't even notice.
Implant by Killing Joke (2003) - Silent weapons for a quiet war.
May not be your taste in music but you'll get the message.
"It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong." – Thomas Sowell