The world around us is swirling about us with vertiginous speed. Imagine living in a world where a nano-second is so last century! When the AI digital robotic taskmaster at my fingertips can actually admonish me for what I feel. The temerity, presumptiveness, arrogance of that machine to tell me how I feel! And what I need to consider doing to fix it.
To be entirely forthright, that fancy machine — how close is it to running out of fossil-fuel-juice — will actually ask you if you want to know the best and closest place, I need to get chicken soup to help alleviate my symptoms of a common cold. Oh, the ailment the fine machine deduced from symptoms I am reasonably certain I did not share within that session…
Fifty active shooting wars in the world, with people dying. A couple massive, institutionalized holocausts being perpetrated in the world. 8,500 children die of malnutrition daily in the world. 98% of female children between the ages of five and eleven undergo female genital mutilation in Somalia every day. Basic human rights are distant theoretical concepts in a good part of the world. Technology, all that we talk and write about daily, is a massive paradox: a God-sent and a curse to, well, too many. You may want to give a listen to our talk on Singularity.
I hope that the stratospherically competent, uber-AI thinkers, reflect on creating the proper hierarchy of machines AND PEOPLE, to make AI ultimately work for the benefit of the masses. AND do so in a self-regulated, altruistic manner. Before legislative bodies around the world will have to dynamite all that super-slick technology.
And while I consider the afore-listed, I read, watch, listen to all the enlightened political talking heads around the world arguing pointless theories and concepts in their quest for corrupting power.
Mind Lord Acton: “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Vote with your money, your voice and your feet.