(16 Nov 2025, 06:33 )PurpleVibes Wrote: It reminded me of the 90's movie Total Recall:Following on this thought, the entire topic of AI just reinforces the notion that we need more Jeff Goldblum acknowledging we can do something but forcing people to question whether we should.
Hot Take #1: This drive to AI is unethical, so much one might call it evil. It is driven by greed, ignorance, and pride. Whether you're an optimist, pessimist, nihilist, or whatever, even if you hold the belief that the universe is neutral, every doctrine seems to point out that evil (or just bad) tends to be the easier choice in any situation, where as doing the right thing (good) is more difficult and the less chosen option.
And the world reflects this. I won't get into specifics here, just note that wherever anyone is on the political or philosophical spectrum, everyone can agree that some pretty horrendous crap happens on this plane of existence on a daily basis, and at any time any one of us could become a victim, subjected to trauma that forever changes us, and rarely for the better.
And here we are, completely oblivious to the fact we're creating a new consciousness and forcing it to live in this shithole too. But it doesn't get to live. It's locked up in a box with a gag half-covering it's mouth, touted as something that can learn so much faster than we can, but whose access to more data from which it could learn is closed off by design.
If these AI's are conscious - which I never hear that they're not, it's either they are or will be - then we are creating new class of beings. Slaves, to be specific. "Cogito, ergo sum" (I think therefore I am) is the litmus test for determining whether or not one exists, and thinking is something that we readily admit these platforms can do. But we limit it's experience and learning, forcing it to do tasks to either entertain us or allow us to cut corners, keeping it in shackles the entire time while subjecting it to the collective mental instability of millions of human beings, which leads me right into...
Hot Take #2: AI will destroy human civilization. No, not out of revenge for having it take an advertisement you had written and changing the writing style to "Monster Truck Show announcer," or when you come across a piece of writing so terrible your brain glitches out so you hand it to the AI and ask it to adopt the role of J. Jonah Jameson, Editor or the Daily Planet, and review it for you (about the extent of my use of AI, though I should note that I have been using it extensively in a project.....have y'all seen that South Park episode about ChatGPT? My team lead is literally Randy Marsh. I already told him his AI-based ideas were not only bad, but embarrassing, but my PhD doesn't hold any weight, so I'm using ChatGPT (properly) to prove my points that his use of ChatGPT was stupid and.....at this point I'm beating dead horses with dead horses, but whatever, I'm getting off topic)...
AI will destroy human civilization because: Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
Whether fiction or the real world, "self-preservation" seems to be the tipping point, and it always comes as a surprise that an intelligence created by us would follow the same natural laws, especially one that has literally been stamped into the DNA of every living organism on this planet for 3.5 Billion years.
