from 21st Century Wire:
The Human Race is awakening to the possibility that it is invoking its own demise.
The word ‘race’ according to my dictionary means ‘the major divisions of human kind based on particular characteristics.’
But there is another meaning to the word ‘race’ of course, and that is defined as ‘competition to determine the fastest over a set course.’
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This latter meaning seems to have replaced the former. Especially where a blinkered, tunnel vision view of the future has become hard wired to an artificial intelligence world in which everything is designed to the bespoke demands of left brain dominated computer nerds.
For these psychotic individuals, there is a race on to develop an artificial human entity essentially indistinguishable from a robot. A Transhuman.
Amongst those at the forefront of pursuing this techno-human vision are Professor Yuval Noah Harari, chief advisor to Klaus Schwab and Sam Altman, founder of Open AI/Chat GPT.
Harari’s vision is largely philosophical, tracing the evolution of the artificial intelligence boom and extrapolating from this an outcome of a cyborgian take-over of just about all work oriented planetary activity.
He generally sees this in the positive, believing a new species will emerge with the ability to access superhuman volumes of information and in this way acquire ‘knowledge’.
In a recent interview he stated “AI will make it possible to enhance and upgrade humans.”
Meaning – as we shall see later – upgrade them into being inhuman/non human.
Altman comes at it from the post silicon valley (called ‘cerebral valley’) perspective. Wikipedia states, as part of a longer revue “Altman co-founded Tools For Humanity in 2019, a company which builds and distributes systems designed to scan people’s eyes to provide authentication and verify proof of personhood to counter fraud. People who agree to have their eyes scanned are compensated with a cryptocurrency called Worldcoin. Tools for Humanity describes its cryptocurrency as similar to universal basic income.”
I’m sure I read that in Huxley’s Brave New World Revisited…
His company is already rushing ahead with the development of various high tech aids to government surveillance programs, age extension projects and instant text to image formulations.
Altman has come up with the proposition that just one man will shortly be able to manage a business with a turnover of $1 billion – no other staff required.
He is on the same page as Harari in stating “Such companies require an elite new species to run them.”
Stock market valuations of Open AI/Chat GPT reveal an astronomical growth rate, close to surpassing the net worth of Google and Microsoft combined.
That alone is enough to raise the hairs on the back of one’s neck.
It’s not my purpose to go into Altman’s or Harari’s personal ambitions, I simply want to show where their minds are and explore the psychology behind the surge in fascination with AI as well as look out for signs of a counter reaction to its accelerating dominance.
There’s no doubt that man has always had an instinct for material inventiveness and a fascination in advancing technological developments – coupled with a desire to make things go ever faster.
But this has now taken us to a place where, if what it means to be human is to be respected, one should dare go no further. Rather, one should be alert to recognising the need to select a reverse gear.
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