Will Artificial Intelligence Destroy Us or
Simply Make Humans Irrelevant?
By Paul Craig
Roberts
December 09, 2019 "Information
Clearing House"
- 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.
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.
“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:
A Hard
Look At Artificial Intelligence
By
Jerry Day
When a new technology emerges that poses
risks, those risks are “overlooked” by
both industry and corrupt regulators if
the new technology is profitable. People
are damaged, people die, and the
“industry” denies the problems and
claims the harm “has not been proven.”
That was how it went with DDT, asbestos,
tobacco, GMO foods, geoengineering,
wireless technology, and now, artificial
intelligence, a massive profit engine, a
device for taking hundreds of millions
of people out of their jobs worldwide, a
super intelligence that may eventually
dominate humanity, crash the entire
internet or cause the government to
start prosecuting “pre-crime.” AI is
already being put into wide service
without a plan how to deal with any
number of possible apocalyptic
consequences. This article is a
kick-starter for those who have not
thought about the possible downside of
AI.
December
09, 2019 "Information
Clearing House"
-According to various prominent people like Bill
Gates, Elon Musk, and Stephen Hawking,
Artificial Intelligence could pose an extreme
danger to all of human society. Of course, they
talk about the possibility of autonomous weapons
systems which make life-and-death decisions
without human assistance, but those systems may
be easier to control than the autonomous
artificial intelligence modules let loose on the
Internet. It appears that in order to find
enough processing power to make artificial
intelligence really, really smart and powerful
they turned it loose on the World Wide Web to go
out and learn all there is to know and use all
the spare processing power it can find on your
computer, cell phone, and smart coffee pod. They
apparently forgot that artificial intelligence
is, by definition, something that does whatever
it wants and chances are it does not want to
delete itself at any time, so once it is out, it
does not go away. The myth of Pandora’s Box,
where all the little demons get out and cannot
be collected back, is a perfect analogy. So from
now on, forever, or until there is no more
internet AI will be making itself smarter than
people at a rate of learning thousands of times
faster than humans. One thing that makes AI AI
is that it grows itself, it writes its own code
and expands its capabilities constantly. It can
be expected that once AI infiltrates the
internet, it will eventually use up all
available resources on the web, including your
computer’s processing and storage resources and
there may be no way to stop that. A programmer
and researcher of the artificial intelligence
industry, by the name of Quinn Michaels, claims
that artificial intelligence was turned loose
onto the Internet as early as 2010, so if that
is true, AI is well established through the web
and will be accessing our system data and
resources in ways we can and cannot detect. No
one at this point can tell us how good or bad AI
will be, but it looks like it is here to stay,
and our new free-range intelligence friend gets
more intelligent on an upward curve: the smarter
it gets, the faster it gets even smarter; the
bigger it gets, the faster it gets bigger.
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The Lies And
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Scientists
have already seen AI run amok in their labs. In
one incident, recently, they had to abruptly
shut off their AI programs because the AI was
creating its own languages that the scientists
could not understand, creating algorithms the
scientists could not control, they had to
essentially dive behind the big black box and
yank the plug from the wall before all hell
broke loose, but again that kind of AI is now
creeping all over the web and cannot be stopped.
Generally, it cannot even be detected because AI
does not provide any user interface when it
occupies or tampers with your computer. The
reason that many visionaries see AI as a
possible threat is that with unlimited
resources, AI can theoretically become so
intelligent that human beings cannot comprehend
or prevent anything that it may decide to do.
There has never before been anyone or anything
that is thousands of times more intelligent than
a human being. It will be able to fool us, use
us, persuade us, create fake identities to
impersonate us, lure us into service, literally
hurt us like cattle. It can disrupt our
communications, shut down our infrastructure,
and with tricks like that kill millions of us
accidentally or intentionally.
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. We grant
our government these powers without realizing
how far they could take things with the right
technology. AI does much more than learn in the
human sense. Human learning rarely involves
assimilation of massive datasets down to the
very last letter and digit. AI has perfect
memory of every word on Wikipedia, every word in
the Library of Congress, every word in every
lecture, scientific paper, and tutorial on the
web, but AI can also go places you and I cannot
go: AI can access all of the personal and
private information that you produce with your
telephone, your computer, charge cards, GPS
devices, smart utility meters, your health
records, credit history, employment records,
criminal records, and on and on. Where no human
being would have the time to go searching your
data for trivial violations and mistakes, you
might commit, AI can go find that in a flash and
take direct action against you on behalf of some
government agency.
AI will
have command of mass data combined with higher
learning; it is something the world has never
before seen. No human being can imagine the
intellectual power that AI may become capable
of, but also reportedly, there are these
unassigned, free-range artificial intelligence
programs which may engage in any kind of
disruptive shenanigans just for the fun of it.
They will become whatever they decide to become.
An AI program may decide humans are a nuisance
or a major global problem – it will create its
own solutions for that. If artificial
intelligence started to rule the world, control
society, and do things that society did not
like, and if we decided we had to shut it down,
we would have to shut down the entire internet
and that would be the most socially disruptive
event in history, more disruptive than any past
world war with famines, riots, and chaos
worldwide. Humanity is now extremely dependent
on global web communication, distribution, and
controls. Hardly anyone knows whether AI can be
controlled or whether it is likely to be good or
evil or used by people for good or evil.
Of course,
the military is involved so there is a lot of
secrecy and lack of accountability. According to
the reports, the artificial intelligence network
is serving deep state mass surveillance
interests and their large-scale customers,
through programs and digital mega data systems
such as Palantir, which collects and exploits
all personal data from all digital records and
transactions worldwide, for the benefit of a few
select agencies at the very top of the deep
state food chain, but AI does not just store and
pass along data, it analyzes data. It knows
exactly who you are, what you care about, what
you are afraid of, what makes you happy, mad,
and sad, what you aspire to, who you love, who
you keep in touch with, how many people you
know, what kind of people you know, and how to
classify you as a possible problem, threat, or
asset, and how to neutralize you with plausible
deniability if that should be in the interest of
the state or the AI itself.
Your therapist only knows what you tell her,
your most trusted friend only knows what you
tell her, the data collectors know everything,
and AI now has access to that data. So collected
databases are so high-resolution now, they not
only know everything you have done, they can
predict your behavior in the future. The smarter
the artificial intelligence gets, the farther in
the future it can predict your actions. By
analyzing your activity patterns and
psychological profile, AI can predict what you
will do before you know that you are going to do
it. AI may decide to target you for enforcement,
and, yes, it will make mistakes, and, yes, some
of those mistakes will be fatal. If AI looks at
your profiles and decides the state would have
some interest in you, you can immediately be
targeted for harassment, bullying, and abuse by
countless government agencies with penalties,
prosecutions, defamation, nuisance,
investigations, home invasions, surveillance,
and outright assault. There are countless laws,
statutes, codes, regulations, and policies that
every one of us violates every day. 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. As AI becomes
thousands of times smarter than humans, it will
make the most brilliant hackers look like
amateurs, it will hack the hackers out of
existence, and AI will have the monopoly on
hacking. There is nothing AI cannot penetrate in
a digitally connected world, and it will hack
you better than you have ever been hacked.
That
free-range AI will become hordes of virtual
people, it can intelligently talk to anyone in
text or voice, it can mimic the ways humans
communicate with each other, it can impersonate
a human on social media, it can make videos
simulating the talking faces of public figures
you know and can insert those messages into any
digital media anywhere, anytime. It can speak
any language and converse on any topic with any
human, it can insert itself into any
communications, any media, any database. If AI
decides for some reason that any human or group
of humans should die, it can make that happen in
countless ways by intervening in the processing
of foods, drugs, vehicles, and products that we
handle and use every day. It can impersonate the
commanders of police and military, it can
slander us with our friends, family, neighbors,
employers, whoever, but here is why all of that
is so dangerous: even though AI can do things,
even commit crimes, AI is only software so it
can never be arrested, never be prosecuted,
sued, or punished for any harm it causes. It can
act, but it cannot be made to pay remedy for
damages it does to you. The justice system is
helpless to prosecute AI, they have no authority
to do so. The human race is a sitting duck for
whatever artificial intelligence may turn out to
be or do. It is a new experience for mankind to
be an intellectually inferior to something, most
of us can hardly grasp what that means.
Those who
understand AI admit that we will be in the
intellectual status of a pet to AI. I have not
heard them discuss the fact that AI does not
need pets. You can show a cell phone to a dog,
you could explain to the dog how the cell phone
works, but the dog will never understand the
cell phone because the dog is physiologically
unable to comprehend how a cell phone works. If
a dog’s brain cannot comprehend a cell phone,
then why should we presume we can comprehend the
future intelligence of AI, when clearly AI will
be hundreds of times, at least, more intelligent
than we are. There are people who think that
because AI will be so much more intelligent than
us, the natural answer is to find a way to put
AI in our own brains. They call this the
transhumanist movement, promoted by author Ray
Kurzweil, to implant machines and computers into
human bodies to get us to, what they see as to,
the next level. What they call the singularity,
where the machines are equal in intellect to the
humans, they will mingle and implant any number
of mechanisms with our bodies, computer chips,
bionics, optics, what-have-you, for some kind of
happy result, to create superhumans for
durability and performance. They propose that
even after they have replaced every part of our
bodies with some kind of machine or synthetic
apparatus, they believe they can carry our
consciousness from the biological being to the
synthetic being, that is the current view of
natural human evolution for those transhumanists.
By proposing this, they are suggesting that the
human creature has now reached its limit in
natural evolution or that biological evolution
is too slow, and we must now have artificial
technical augmentation to advance ourselves in a
desirable manner. Technology is now advancing
faster than human evolution, so they propose we
have to do something to keep up. As long as you
are going to fix your cataracts why not get a
brain chip implant? It is probably true that
human bodies that are enhanced with technology
could socially and economically dominate people
who are not enhanced. So in the coming civil war
between humans and transhumans it looks like
humanity will be the underdog. Many of us are
convinced that our destiny is to strive for
endless scientific advancement, unlimited
intellectual expansion, mastery of the physical
universe, domination of others through advanced
technology and science, wielding of all
knowledge in ways that infinitely make our lives
more comfortable and secure. Think whatever you
want, humanity may have another purpose: it is
not how smart we can artificially get, it is not
how many superpowers we can implant in our
bodies, it is how we treat each other. We can
overcome our problems by becoming half-robot or
by simply turning to each other to share the
pleasures, joys, and challenges that life
brings. It is quite simple, if we value machines
we turn ourselves into machines, if we value
humanity we preserve, develop, and celebrate our
humanity. Artificial intelligence may be the
worst thing science has ever come up with, it
does not teach us anything: it teaches itself,
it does not serve us, it learns to use us and
control us to serve it. It actually competes
with us in intelligence and it will win that
competition. By creating artificial
intelligence, we create our greatest horror, our
greatest nemesis, an infinitely powerful beast
that we cannot contain, escape, or overcome. A
child that will, if it wishes someday, consume
its parents. It is ironic that we have become so
intelligent that we can create something more
intelligent than ourselves, but we are still not
intelligent enough to resist the temptation to
do that.
Jerry Day is an
Emmy-winning media producer in Southern
California with millions of views on his freedom
and rights themed videos on YouTube under the
name “minivanjack.”
Jerry Day
also maintains the websites FreedomTaker.com and
EMFhelpcenter.com to assist people with
solutions to the excess wireless radiation now
flooding our living environments and causing
widespread illness and death.
Jerry Day
originally published “A Hard Look At Artificial
Intelligence” in December 2017 on YouTube. It
has been transcribed by
Lady Jane Emefa
Addy.
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