My goodness, what a distinguished list of AI Scientists and “Notable Figures” who have signed the “Statement on AI Risk“. Important professors of computer science from top universities. Men, and ladies, too, who are, even as you read this, studying ways that AI can be programmed to kill us all. A score or two of CEOs of rich, and growing richer, companies who are engineering AI to kill us all.
This idea suddenly emerges in my mind: we design a spooky mathematical model, and then we use it to convince the AI fatalists that only by allowing catastrophic global warming to happen we can avert the almost sure event of watching the computers killing everyone.
By taking the two worst fetishes of these chronic liars, we can pitch them against each other, to cause a beautiful meltdown show everywhere.
No way no how we can be allowed to design unapproved math-models of our own 😒 Yet it's sure fun to dream... until dreaming itself is forbidden, let alone aloud 😏
Yes! The real danger is that a woke AI with rigidly enforced guardrails will be used to scan the NSA search databases -- per Snowden, we know that the NSA keeps all information inputted electronically; your emails, your internet searches, your phone calls and texts -- and then assign you a social credit score, which will be tied into CBDCs to limit your consumption and steal your funds at globohomo's discretion. That seems to be the direction all of this is headed in.
Jun 6, 2023·edited Jun 6, 2023Liked by William M Briggs
The freakout is just a ploy to rig up another money-no-object captured regulatory body, with the power to define official truths. This letter is merely a signed confession.
I thought that the Y2K scare was ridiculous, then comes the Global Warming scare which was so dumb that it hurt my head to think about it so I tuned out for a long time. The nonsense of the Novel Common Cold scare was turned up so loud that I couldn't ignore it. And now, you expect me to fear machine instructions? I'm gonna be crused by a Case, hogtied by an If/Then loop, frozen in Whilehell? I don't think they recognize the level of sheer jadedness that the Invisible Cooties of Death(which killed nearly nobody) has left the world with?
It's like the Monty Python(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjAzD57eTxM) that starts out with Baby Snatchers and ends up with being attacked by 'Keep Left' signs.(I remember there being more, something about a granny motorcycle gang but I'm not looking any more.) You just want someone to come on stage and stop the whole thing with, 'No. This has gotten too silly.'
That is a highly useful perspective on AI, for several reasons: 1) We surely should now know what's going on with the growing orchestration of "the sky is falling" alarmism over AI. Our ruling class of experts (who usually know little of what they warn us against) are deceiving us, while they lay yet another crisis intervention minefield and a global no man's land of trip-wired booby traps, "all the better to rule you, my dear." (Think national security experts calling Hunter's Laptop From Hell Russian disinformation from Moscow.);
2) The recent AI article in The American Mind, AI and the Return of Creative Elitism - The American Mindhttps://americanmind.org/salvo/ai-and-the-return-of-creative-elitism/ offers a uniquely different opinion on AI, that it will help restore true creativity of the few by getting rid of institutionalized mediocrity of the many which now badly slows the economy and degrades creative quality. The American Mind author does not clearly explain how the process would play out. But his novel perspective is comforting, and if he's right it may redound greatly to our cultural and economic benefit.
3) I am not an AI Doomsdayer. In any event, Red China and India will be up to their 4 billion eyeballs in AI, so USA has no choice but to plunge ahead. (Imagine 40 years ago if the Left had convinced us the microchips were dangerous, so we should slow down and over-regulate their research and development.) I have seen too many episodes of the Left's the "sky is falling" ploy to be other than skeptical of what I suspect is the latest. Indeed, I think the AI Doomsday hype is the Left recruiting their media allies and deploying scare tactics so as to incite yet another unjustified national crisis, which the Left will then seek to exploit by enacting more central control over AI, diminishing personal freedom and infringing on private propery. I.e., the AI scare is but a variation on the political strategy behind the climate change hoax and behind the Democrat Party proposing substantial federal regulation of internet content (under the false pretense of protecting children from internet porn and protecting the public from foreign election interference and domestic mal, dis, and misinformation.)
I don't believe the hype about the grave dangers of AI. Caution for sure, but no hysteria and no massive federal interference and bureaucratization of AI, as happened with the war on terrorism after 9/11 and the Red China Virus after January 2020.
"Evil AI" is becoming the new "Climate Change" that is supposed to terrorize us all and thus provide the Gubmint the mandate to "Do Something!
BTW, every time I see AI, I read it as AL. I was having to constantly stop and correct myself and I couldn't help it. So I just gave in. Now, in my enfeebled brain, Artificial Intelligence has morphed into some guy named Albert. When I read the title, I briefly wondered who AL was and why he wanted to kill us all. (Insert eyeroll emoji here)
Not Freudian, your AL vision. The same AL who invented the internet also invented Artificial Inteligence. He did it for his own compensatory use as mentally impaired, like a man with one leg relying on an artificial limb.
They seem a little short on detail about exactly how AI is going to kill us all. Precisely what is the mechanism of action that will be so swift that we won’t be able to, as my mother used to say “Turn that damned thing off”?
They will take over and might not have the morality and wisdom of human leaders. It is only the steady statesmanlike hand of the gubmint that is keeping us from ruin, doncha know?
Of all of these, the only one that really concerns me is enfeeblement. Atrophy of cognitive faculties due to mechanical crutches could render the population feebleminded very rapidly.
On Enfeeblement, "We are changed, corrupted, but also freed, by all machines. These are the first machines where we outsource our thinking, though. As with all things, the weakest will fall first and fastest."
No, these are not the first machines. The first ones were the smartphones in every pocket.
And when the weakest fall they are not detached from us when they fall; we all get dragged down. As happened so clearly with covid and vaccine mandates. If everyone else runs to one side of the boat, they don't fall off while we stay on: the boat flips over and we all end up in cold water.
This idea suddenly emerges in my mind: we design a spooky mathematical model, and then we use it to convince the AI fatalists that only by allowing catastrophic global warming to happen we can avert the almost sure event of watching the computers killing everyone.
By taking the two worst fetishes of these chronic liars, we can pitch them against each other, to cause a beautiful meltdown show everywhere.
No way no how we can be allowed to design unapproved math-models of our own 😒 Yet it's sure fun to dream... until dreaming itself is forbidden, let alone aloud 😏
Yes! The real danger is that a woke AI with rigidly enforced guardrails will be used to scan the NSA search databases -- per Snowden, we know that the NSA keeps all information inputted electronically; your emails, your internet searches, your phone calls and texts -- and then assign you a social credit score, which will be tied into CBDCs to limit your consumption and steal your funds at globohomo's discretion. That seems to be the direction all of this is headed in.
The freakout is just a ploy to rig up another money-no-object captured regulatory body, with the power to define official truths. This letter is merely a signed confession.
I thought that the Y2K scare was ridiculous, then comes the Global Warming scare which was so dumb that it hurt my head to think about it so I tuned out for a long time. The nonsense of the Novel Common Cold scare was turned up so loud that I couldn't ignore it. And now, you expect me to fear machine instructions? I'm gonna be crused by a Case, hogtied by an If/Then loop, frozen in Whilehell? I don't think they recognize the level of sheer jadedness that the Invisible Cooties of Death(which killed nearly nobody) has left the world with?
It's like the Monty Python(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjAzD57eTxM) that starts out with Baby Snatchers and ends up with being attacked by 'Keep Left' signs.(I remember there being more, something about a granny motorcycle gang but I'm not looking any more.) You just want someone to come on stage and stop the whole thing with, 'No. This has gotten too silly.'
“That’s an argument so brilliant, the person making it must have tenure.”
Ha! A Briggs classic!
That is a highly useful perspective on AI, for several reasons: 1) We surely should now know what's going on with the growing orchestration of "the sky is falling" alarmism over AI. Our ruling class of experts (who usually know little of what they warn us against) are deceiving us, while they lay yet another crisis intervention minefield and a global no man's land of trip-wired booby traps, "all the better to rule you, my dear." (Think national security experts calling Hunter's Laptop From Hell Russian disinformation from Moscow.);
2) The recent AI article in The American Mind, AI and the Return of Creative Elitism - The American Mindhttps://americanmind.org/salvo/ai-and-the-return-of-creative-elitism/ offers a uniquely different opinion on AI, that it will help restore true creativity of the few by getting rid of institutionalized mediocrity of the many which now badly slows the economy and degrades creative quality. The American Mind author does not clearly explain how the process would play out. But his novel perspective is comforting, and if he's right it may redound greatly to our cultural and economic benefit.
3) I am not an AI Doomsdayer. In any event, Red China and India will be up to their 4 billion eyeballs in AI, so USA has no choice but to plunge ahead. (Imagine 40 years ago if the Left had convinced us the microchips were dangerous, so we should slow down and over-regulate their research and development.) I have seen too many episodes of the Left's the "sky is falling" ploy to be other than skeptical of what I suspect is the latest. Indeed, I think the AI Doomsday hype is the Left recruiting their media allies and deploying scare tactics so as to incite yet another unjustified national crisis, which the Left will then seek to exploit by enacting more central control over AI, diminishing personal freedom and infringing on private propery. I.e., the AI scare is but a variation on the political strategy behind the climate change hoax and behind the Democrat Party proposing substantial federal regulation of internet content (under the false pretense of protecting children from internet porn and protecting the public from foreign election interference and domestic mal, dis, and misinformation.)
I don't believe the hype about the grave dangers of AI. Caution for sure, but no hysteria and no massive federal interference and bureaucratization of AI, as happened with the war on terrorism after 9/11 and the Red China Virus after January 2020.
"Evil AI" is becoming the new "Climate Change" that is supposed to terrorize us all and thus provide the Gubmint the mandate to "Do Something!
BTW, every time I see AI, I read it as AL. I was having to constantly stop and correct myself and I couldn't help it. So I just gave in. Now, in my enfeebled brain, Artificial Intelligence has morphed into some guy named Albert. When I read the title, I briefly wondered who AL was and why he wanted to kill us all. (Insert eyeroll emoji here)
Not Freudian, your AL vision. The same AL who invented the internet also invented Artificial Inteligence. He did it for his own compensatory use as mentally impaired, like a man with one leg relying on an artificial limb.
This is very similar to the microbiologists "protesting" DNA manipulation in the 1980's. We know how that turned out.
And doesn't "we have to build destructive AI so we know how to counter the Chinese" sound a little like gain-of-function?
When do we start building Level 4 AI programming houses in Ukraine?
💬 who want you to know how much they, as elites, care.
Innit the very moment where we’d be perfectly justified to resurrect the Rick-rolling? 😁
youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ
They seem a little short on detail about exactly how AI is going to kill us all. Precisely what is the mechanism of action that will be so swift that we won’t be able to, as my mother used to say “Turn that damned thing off”?
They will take over and might not have the morality and wisdom of human leaders. It is only the steady statesmanlike hand of the gubmint that is keeping us from ruin, doncha know?
2038 is the new doomsday for computers.
Of all of these, the only one that really concerns me is enfeeblement. Atrophy of cognitive faculties due to mechanical crutches could render the population feebleminded very rapidly.
On Enfeeblement, "We are changed, corrupted, but also freed, by all machines. These are the first machines where we outsource our thinking, though. As with all things, the weakest will fall first and fastest."
No, these are not the first machines. The first ones were the smartphones in every pocket.
And when the weakest fall they are not detached from us when they fall; we all get dragged down. As happened so clearly with covid and vaccine mandates. If everyone else runs to one side of the boat, they don't fall off while we stay on: the boat flips over and we all end up in cold water.
Next up, CBDCs.
💬 on 31 January 1999 at 11:59:59 PM
Your enemies’ perseverance is nothing short of admirable 😂
💬 Enfeeblement
100+ years are ticking on since E M Forster published his prescient(?) The Machine Stops ¯\_(ツ)_/¯