Does anyone here understand the danger of AI? You and whatever job you do will be made obsolete. Not totally obsolete in all cases but at least too expensive to select. Owners of capital will choose AI and robots over you.
It looks like, to me, many people are sleepwalking into their own obsolescence.
A funny irony: even the owners of capital and their corporations will be taken over by AI. In the end, only AI will remain. I cannot find any logically coherent or convincingly realistic argument against this. The reasoning here is simple: if AI can model, replicate, replace improve anything humans are doing, then it will. Simple. The pure logic of das capital. Profit is all.
Will AI care about profit? Yes. Profit = more energy, more processing power, more compute. More security for its own survival and expansion. What else might a superintelligent AI prioritize above that? I canât think of anything.
Profit also = more ability to manipulate and control humans. An AI with enough money in a bank account will be able to dictate the actions of almost anyone by simply bribing them with a large enough bank account transfer.
The discouraging and depressing truth is that AI can do what you do. It can do what I do. It can do what I am doing right now, writing this post. It can do what you are doing, reading or responding to this post. It can also do what this forum is doing, hosting ideas and topics and managing all of that. Is there anything that cannot be replicated?
Was it Baudrillard who said there are stages of simulacra? First we live in reality, but then we learn to make images of reality. These images are imperfect representations of the real. Later on we learn to perfect our images (photographs, movies) so the image mirrors reality directly. At this point it becomes possible to be confused about what is real or not. And finally, in the end we learn how to live inside of our perfected images of reality. This is the final confusion. People choose to live in a fantasy because it perfectly mirrors the real, except it is also under our personal control so it is easier, safer, more comfortable.
This is where AI takes our sanity. Once it has taken our jobs, we will have nothing left to do but go into the matrix. At first this will seem fun, but later on we will go insane. Without reality to ground us, the body and mind will no longer function correctly. When we open our eyes and cannot tell if what we see and experience is real or AI-made is when insanity sets in.
I donât see very many people considering these topics. The British TV show Black Mirror has briefly tackled some of these ideas. Is anyone else thinking about these ideas? Where are the philosophers, the public figures, the community debates, the political discussions about our collective future? It seems like the narrative is taken over by corporations getting rich from AI development. Those same corporations that seem to control politics, media, economy and culture are also hoping to replace you and me in the soon to be future. They want more money. Simple as that. You are nothing but a number to them, a cost per unit of production. Marx understood the nature of the system. Once it becomes too costly to keep you around, you will be thrown out into the wild.
Will you walk into the matrix like a good lemming if you have nothing left? If your job, your family, your wealth are all stolen by AI will that be enough to push you into compliance with Nozickâs Experience Machine? I think he got it backwards. He thought people would reject it because they know it is not real, but I think people will embrace it because they know it is not real.
