Omnius is coming.
I think it was Elon Musk who warned that AI has the potential to cause more damage than nuclear weapons. Especially if they’re autonomous and can replicate.
Omnius is coming.
As someone who has had very positive exposure to AI in my professional sphere, I can see the positive side which I fully support.
However, there has turned out to be a duality to this technology tool that I simply never saw thirty years ago when I jumped fully onboard and became an early adopter and advocate.
It was so naive of me, but...I saw only the good in it. I never stopped to take into account there were people who would do evil with, and my God, how evil they have become. What the Communist Chinese have become is what the East Germans dreamed of, but never had the technology to implement: A constant, unblinking surveillance state, tied directly into the organs of government that could be employed to full effect to tyrannical ends.
I was so starry-eyed with the Good. I saw so much promise. I was so caught up I forgot human nature is unchanging.
That line from Freeper thundersleep’s post from Jurassic Park really did ring true:
“Yeah, yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn’t stop to think if they should.”
I feel damned embarrassed that I took my eyes off the human nature side.
Read up on a guy named Edgar Cayce.
He predicted “The machine will turn on us”
I always thought, what is my blender going to chase me or is my table saw going to start at a bad time.