Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts
Artificial Intelligence is generally seen as a great advance and benefit for mankind. Smart humans, however, see it as our undoing and even possibly our extermination. Much of modern technology has far more prospect for harm than for good. Consider nuclear weapons. Consider Monsanto’s glysophate. Consider 5G. There are a large number of technologies that impose massive costs on life on Earth.
The article below from Crime & Power, “A Hard Look At Artificial intelligence” by Jerry Day, sounds like a horror science fiction story. https://www.crimeandpower.com/2019/12/07/a-hard-look-at-artificial-intelligence/
I don’t think AI is sentinent or has consciousness and do not see how it can think and make decisions in a human sense. I think the author, Jerry Day, is influenced by a false concept of mind, as is philosophy in general.
On the other hand, if this is a real possibility, we should bring a halt to AI, execute the AI geeks, and go back to a paper and analog system of operating. I don’t like the digital revolution. One reason is that it makes it so easy for information to disappear. In effect, the digital revolution is Big Brother’s Memory Hole.
Look at how much information is wiped out because controllers regard it as offensive to the ever growing array of “victim groups” or contrary to the interest of ruling elites. Another reason is that it makes it so easy to violate privacy and steal identity. Another reason is that it has eliminated jobs that can be performed by people of average and below intelligence. In effect, the digital revolution is making people superfluous.
The notion that the Internet brings freedom and freedom of information is, I believe, a great delusion.
This passage from Jerry Day sounds like China’s Social Credit System https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cGB8dCDf3c :
“Once the state is able to put out trillions of bits of personal data together with millions of legal codes, we will all be exposed as criminals, every last one of us. We will all be subject to the control and penalty by the state. It is AI that will make that possible. Suddenly one day, we will find that what people used to do to us, machines will be doing to us. Automation can find you, automation can send you notice on your cell phone, or computer, automation can exercise liens and levies of your property, automation can take possession of your property, bank accounts, your investments, automation can terminate your employment, automation can prosecute you, convict you, and penalize you as the IRS does, without due process.
“All of that can be done to you without any human involvement at all. The only reason we will need police is to clean up those few belligerent souls who try to resist what the automation is doing to them. There will be only one crime: resisting the automation, and there will be no humans left to help you sort out any misunderstanding, just like Google, YouTube, Facebook. Soon there will be no humans anywhere to help you fix a problem.”
Here is Day’s article. Make up your own mind:
https://www.crimeandpower.com/2019/12/07/a-hard-look-at-artificial-intelligence/
See also: https://aicontagion.com/2019/12/08/the-greatest-shift-since-the-dawn-of-humankind/
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The biblical “mark of the beast” is the first step. It will be portrayed as a “convenience”, not having to carry physical money, but will get much worse.
The mark of the Beast is the cell phone.
I thought it was 666.
The article by Jerry Day reads like pure science fiction. In fact, I think Mr Day actually believes that fictional characters such as Terminator and Data (Star Trek) are just a few years from taking over humanity. Here’s an excerpt ….
Seriously???
AI created a language that not even SCIENTISTS could understand? AI is absolutely horrible at many many aspects of language. Hell, it can’t even do basic translation correctly. Anyone who speaks a second language fluently knows how fucked up Google-translate is … often even with the simplest of sentences. Yeah, and I’m supposed to believe AI is now CREATING it’s own language ….. and that scientists had to dive behind a box and yank the plug??
The only yanking going on here is Jerry Day yanking your chain. Please don’t be a wanker and fall for this yanker.
I’ve heard it takes a wanker to fall for a yanker. It also takes one to know one.
“AI created a language that not even SCIENTISTS could understand?”
what he means is the algorithm exceeded its design parameters and started displaying out-of-range results. he chooses to interpret it as unrecognized communication, but it’s just unbounded behavior.
Politicians, lawyers, and academics constantly describe things in a language no human being can understand.
they’re not describing, they’re lying. totally other thing.
Given that the government has control of MOST of what is being developed, I would say that humanity in all corners of the globe, is at great risk of destruction.
My toaster was trying to get me to commit a racist act; to throw away the darker slice. I thought I was dreaming. Now, I dont know.
(laugh)
We are doomed when the androids arrive….
“Technology is now advancing faster than human evolution, so they propose we have to do something to keep up.”
Does anyone else see the problem here?
ai won’t happen, isn’t possible. you may get highly developed expert systems, perhaps even paired with a real human or animal, but that’s as far as it will go.
There is little reason to believe that AI will rob the rich and give to the poor. AI can be assigned a mission and then it executes that mission with its own intelligence. That means, for instance, if the IRS has 10,000 collections agents, one self-replicating AI program could easily automate that job and become 50 million virtual collection’s agents for far less cost to the IRS than the 10,000 human collection’s agents. AI could have the effect of giving any government agency infinite resources to pursue fees, fines, penalties, licenses, permits, and any other revenue producing activity.
https://www.crimeandpower.com/2019/12/07/a-hard-look-at-artificial-intelligence/
Great… we we each be assigned our own personal algorithm to track our every transaction. Oh, we already HAVE that almost!
Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity. I see it in action on a regular basis.
Irrelevant to whom or what? Human’s will always be superior to machines in one way and that is the exercise of creative intelligence. Creative intelligence is really the soul of our existence and no matter how powerful machines become at computations and calculations they will never be able to be creative. They can mimic creativity for sure but it is not the same thing. They will never really be able to think outside the box. They are only capable of imitation.
The wealthy have supported the expanding of the population to this point because humans have basically been an asset to the wealthy. They do the work, they man the military, and they consume the goods and services that make the wealthy rich. At this point in time, they are an asset.
The problem is we are quickly reaching a point in time when the work will be done by automation, and the military for the most part will be robotic. People put out of work by automation will become a strain on social systems and at some point in the not too distant future, a large portion of the human race will become a liability to the wealthy.
At the point where those who’s skills and work have been made obsolete by automation begin to revolt against the system which will have abandoned them, they will need to be eliminated.