Apparently we (and I speak here for ALL of humanity) are facing extinction. Not the one that’s coming because of global warming, that’ll take some time. This one is from Artificial Intelligence. Its not mere conspiracy theorists spouting their normal bollocks either, this message comes from the 350 most eminent men in the AI field. Who are worried that ‘superintelligent AI with interests misaligned with humans’ might ‘unwittingly’ destroy us. Well how ‘superintelligent’ can you be if you do fairly major things ‘unwittingly’? I think their title needs to be downgraded to ‘daft’, ‘stupid’ or just merely ‘normal-intelligent’ AI.

So here’s my message to these 350 ‘superintelligent’ professors and pioneers and techno-whizzes all competing to advance AI to positively Terminatoresque limits in which the computers themselves program the next level of computers and the shit hits the fan. The message is ‘STOP’. Just fucking stop trying to out-brilliant each other by devising something even more brilliant. Even though Google/Apple/Meta will pay you 17 billion dollars for your efforts.

If you’re driving down a road which you know ends at a cliff edge, even if its an electric car, the sound advice would always be along the lines of ‘stop’. So what’s the fucking problem?

Buddhists aspired to a state in which you exist only in spirit form. You don’t need a human body, that’s just a machine for turning hamburgers into shit (Buddhism predates McDonalds by a thousand years). Similarly, the most advanced AI ‘machine’ is just a black box plugged into a socket. Yet really, for most people, AI can only be appreciated once you stick it into a person-shape. And the most advanced robot in the world now confesses to ‘have the personality of a 15 year old boy or girl’. And that’s how ‘intelligent’ artificial intelligence is. To avoid any gender/identity issues, Robot-thing is truly ‘they/theirs’. Possibly ‘it/its’, but certainly not ‘tits’. And because it doesn’t possess an artificial penis, it can go into any toilet in the world without invading anyone’s safe space. Although it wouldn’t do very much once it got there, obvs.

The future is here. Its just a matter of how long it lasts.

Happy Wednesday

A xxxx