Whether it’s the US or China, some would sacrifice humanity to create a digital god…
For true believers, artificial intelligence will inevitably become superhuman. According to their mythos, we’re adrift in a godless cosmos. So it’s up to us to create digital deities. Or rather, it’s up to a few tech geeks to create them. The rest of us can either kneel before their altar or get shoved into the abyss….
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In 2018, the US Defense Advance Research Projects Agency announced it is “focusing its investments on a third wave of AI that brings forth machines that can understand and reason in context.” The director of DARPA’s Information Innovation Office, Brian Pierce, is wildly enthusiastic about a “true symbiosis between Homo sapiens and the emerging Machina sapiens.”
A 2021 white paper from the UK Ministry of Defense affirms: “At the core of future military advantage will be effective integration of humans, artificial intelligence, and robotics into warfighting systems—human-machine teams—that exploit the capabilities of people and technologies to outperform our opponents.”
China has similar cyborg ambitions. So do Russia and NATO. “Artificial intelligence is the future,” Vladimir Putin famously proclaimed. “Whoever becomes the leader in this sphere will become the ruler of the world.”
Maybe the generals are wasting money on geek warfare. Maybe they’re just playing with new toys.
I wouldn’t count on it…
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“The power of advanced algorithmic warfare systems is now so great that it equates to having tactical nuclear weapons against an adversary with only conventional ones,” Palantir CEO Alex Karp told the Washington Post. “The general public tends to underestimate this. Our adversaries no longer do.”
In the hands of elite apex predators, these digital tools are deadly serious. When leaders aren’t deploying tech against rivals, they’re turning it on their own citizens. Remember that Clearview AI facial recognition enabled the cops to track down January 6 protesters.
Technology is power. Always has been…
The Artilect War will be fought between the “Terrans,” who would kill to preserve organic humanity, and the “Cosmists,” whose religious devotion to build artilects is so intense, they’ll be willing to die for this divinization. In fact, they’ll be willing to see everyone die for it:
In the 20th century, the Nazis wiped out 20 million Russians, the Japanese murdered 20 million Chinese, Stalin killed 30 million in his purges, and Mao starved 50 million Chinese peasants. These are amongst the greatest crimes in history, yet they pale in comparison to the size of the tragedy if ever the artilects decide to wipe out humanity. The tragedy would be total in the sense that there would no longer be any human beings left to mourn the disappearance of the species.
As de Garis notes, it’s astounding that any human would pursue such a goal knowing billions could be slaughtered. But for Cosmists, the creation of superhuman machines is a religious quest beyond good and evil. In the tradition of mad scientists wracked with guilt, de Garis puts himself in the latter camp, gigadeath be damned:
My ultimate goal is to see humanity, or at least a portion of humanity, go Cosmist and to do it successfully by building truly godlike artilects that tower above our puny human intellectual, and other, abilities.
A key concept in The Artilect War is “species dominance.” Having created artificial life, humanity confronts a new evolutionary competitor. As some people fuse to digital life like tapeworms in a mecha-intestine, humanity will split off into sub-species—bot-sucking cyborgs and “puny” humans.
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The growth of AI is exponential. I’ll bet most here hadn’t even heard of Chat-AI until about a month ago. In a year (if we survive that long) we won’t even recognize our world. IMHO, the most important takeaways are this: You MUST ask God for guidance, and adhere to that guidance, and you MUST learn to survive without dependence on technology. Our enemies are legion, from corrupt politicians (this means very nearly ALL of them), big tech, big media, and now the scientists who continue to develop the tech which will absolutely enslave us, until we are no longer needed, then exterminate those of us that haven’t already been exterminated by our own government.
Matthew 24:22 NIV
“If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened.
i believe this is coming, man has greatly overstepped his boundaries, Yahweh, will not need nor use the hand of man to accomplish such.
I don’t know if plinking it’s sensors and motors with 7.62 API’s would be more fun or doing the same to to it’s operators.
Dana
NC
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Having hunted 3 of the big 5 I know it is imperative to understand how to put a bullet into the “boiler room” (heart lung) or the “bridge” (brain pan). It would be helpful to know where these “bad dawgs” vulnerabilities lie and what bullet /caliber is needed..
The higher the Tech, maintenance kills it. With supply chains so “effed up” these days give me tried and true systems not something that has high charging demands or batteries. Id rather have 100 f15’s than 4 F22s….I know 5th Gen can do allot more but maintenance is a killer! Robot Dogs are cool but so is having beaucoup Claymore mines!
Cyberdyne Systems, El Camino Reale, CA. Creator of SkyNet.
And we thought it was only a movie?
When “scientists” take the humanity out of their work they need to be shut the F down.
DARPA. They also funded Covid-19. I wonder what else they funded.
Darpa has their fingers into many things.
“Dragon Dream”
What is the Dragons dream?
https://www.reddit.com/r/WeirdWings/comments/hgio2v/darpafunded_experiment_airship_dragon_dream/
I hung an old propane tank up at 200 yards thinking it would clang when shot. After several shots and not hearing a clang or see any movement I went to investigate and see where I was missing. That eighty year old mosin was just burning a hole through both sides. Same-same I imagine would happen to these robots.