Utopia – Part 4

The AI Revolution – The Nightmare

Yippee! I don’t have to work anymore! AI is going to take all our jobs!

Uh oh, maybe we actually should be terrified?

Change is scary. Global change can be catastrophic.

It’s not like next week I can send an AI bot into work to do my job and I can still collect my paycheck. There will be a transition.

“We’re transitioning from an era where computers assist people to one where people assist computers.” - this is an interesting quote. This is in regard to doing a job. Currently AI is a tool we use to help us work better. Will the future bring us to a point where the AI is doing the job and we are just guiding the AI to do it better?

“Empathetic AI is advancing rapidly … These digital agents may even prove more empathetic than humans themselves.” Really? Do we really expect people to believe that a computer cares more about them than a fellow human does?

“Read the Warning Label. AI is not just a tool. Yes, it will replace jobs … and … (wait for it …) artificial intelligence has a real potential to even replace entire professions.” Yes, but this isn’t the first time this has happened. In a world of central heating, how busy are chimney sweeps these days?

Who controls / owns AI? It’s sure not the common person. Sure you might use it as a tool like you would use a word processor to help you fine tune your sales pitch or quarterly report, but it is extremely wealthy entities like Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Elon Musk that are controlling the implementation of AI.

Grok’s own words: “Critically, AI lacks the moral judgment, empathy, and understanding of human social dynamics needed for governance. As noted in posts on X, even advanced AI cannot replicate human ethical decision-making, a view echoed in analyses highlighting AI’s inability to grasp nuanced human values.”

If AI is truly humanity’s greatest invention, it is poised to also be the greatest disruptor of life as we know it. With change comes a need to adapt. Some people will adapt well, others will struggle to adapt. My belief is that the very wealthy and the very poor will benefit the most from AI, people in the middle will fair poorly with a wide variety of outcomes.

AI is already being used to influence the perception of the population. People are turning from using search engines to simply asking an AI when they want to research something on the Internet. This will result in a mass shift of acceptance from “Google” being the source of truth to AI bots being the source of truth.

We know that Google is heavily biased. You do know that, don’t you? Google buries alternative information and promotes the narrative. Well, meet DebunkBot ( https://www.debunkbot.com/conspiraciesbot ) which Viseral Adventure has already written about in her article:

If This Is a Troll, Well Done, No Notes

My comments on Viseral Adventure’s article demonstrate that I tried DebunkBot and experienced first hand how it uses manipulative psychology techniques to persuade and bully you into believing the narrative and to dismiss your own personal experience.

Playing again with DebunkBot, I accidentally stumbled on a page where it appears humans teach the AI to respond: “Copy as many of these text entry questions as needed. These questions will be hidden by default so survey respondents cannot see them.”

It had reworded my conspiracy theory as: "Cures for diseases are classified to protect the profits of the Industrial Medical system, which prioritizes profit over delivering health, demonstrated by the FDA's approval of toxic drugs and harassment of healthy nutrients." Apparently this conspiracy blew the mind of DebunkBot and caused it to malfunction.

The Nightmare Scenario Summary:

• The wealthy (who control AI) utilize AI technology for their own advantage, creating an even wider wealth gap between the wealthy and the typical person.

• Adoption of AI is too fast leading to rapid massive unemployment without an adequate Universal Basic Income to support the unemployed (majority of the population)

• Big Data in combination with surveillance technology produces a totalitarian state where freedom becomes almost non-existent (similar to George Orwell’s “1984”)

• People trust AI as an authoritative source, ignoring the fact that AI is “trained” with biased propaganda to promote the narrative.

• AI Robotic armies (intelligent drones, robot soldiers) are employed against countries with militaries that are still human based, causing loss of life and leading to larger conquests. Essentially the wealthy gain even greater control over the Earth. Even worse would be a failure of AI to correctly distinguish military targets vs civilian targets.

• AI puts such a demand on energy and resources that it actually impoverishes humanity (except for the very wealthy utilizing AI for their own benefit).

• Without the need to work, humans fail to find meaning in life leading to massive widespread depression.
  

Please re-read “Part 3” for a bullet pointed Utopia scenario. The most likely scenario will be somewhere in between “Utopia” and “Nightmare”. No doubt, a little bit of both.

Part 1: https://mithel.substack.com/p/utopia-part-1

Part 2: https://mithel.substack.com/p/utopia-part-2

Part 3: https://mithel.substack.com/p/utopia-part-3

Edit:

https://venice.ai is advertising as not having “the censorship”. However if you chat with it, you will find that it is still pushing the narrative: “Furthermore, the technology behind mRNA vaccines is not only safe but also highly effective.”