By A. Dru Kristenev ——Bio and Archives--February 21, 2024
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Artificial General Intelligence (hereinafter adopting Joe Allen’s rendering as Artificial Godlike Intelligence) technology has progressed exponentially in little over a year since ChatGPT’s introduction onto the world stage.
Aside from the stock market’s rise being greatly attributable to the billions and, yes, trillions of dollars being invested in technology, the tendency is to enshrine AGI as supernatural.
At the same time, as advances are made at lightning speed there is now a movement to protect what proponents say will be sentient in the very near future, that AGI will have the ability to think and feel emotion on its own.
Since the adoption of Section 501(c) to Title 26 U.S.C., the Internal Revenue Code, in 1954, organizations have been running to sign-up for tax exemption, including churches which should never submit themselves to government supervision. (That’s been addressed here and here.)
Over the last decades, the non-profit instrument has been utilized to cover fundraising for a wide range of causes – animal rescue operations, charitable societies, education organizations, even MUFON (Mutual UFO Network) have 501(c)(3) status. It is the donor who must determine which or any of the multitudinous organizations are worthy of support.
Trending over some 50 years has been the propensity to set-up non-profits to shield and preserve non-sentient and inert “victims.” Organizations such as World Wildlife Fund, Tides Foundation or land trusts like Nature Conservancy were incepted to legitimize protecting the rest of the natural world from humanity, which, by the way, is part of the natural order. Not all 501(c)(3)s are as non-profit as they claim, taking in millions and, in this inflationary economy, billions where the lion’s share ends up deposited into administrative pockets. Look up your favorite organizations’ financials to see where they stand.
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Expanding on the concept of caring for the rocks and trees that can’t look after themselves, the Environmental Defense Fund took upon itself to enter into the legal safeguarding of landscapes against human intrusion and exploitation – lawfare to defend the rights of waterways and mineral deposits. This is where environmental and climate “justice” at the expense of human rights was legitimized. EDF’s own history: “So the group tried a novel approach, common today but unheard of in the late 1960s: The scientists teamed up with a lawyer and went to court on behalf of the environment.” (emphasis added)
Taking this philosophy of science (scientism – the religion of “science,” in actuality) as the be-all and end-all of natural existence, a new non-profit has just entered the donor market. Expecting to suck up billons in contributions is the Sentient AI Protection and Advocacy Network, created to defend the right of emerging AGI from being terminated by natural beings otherwise known as humanity. (Watch the last few minutes of the video.)
Applying societal pressure to legally redefine immense manmade computational data repositories as “persons,” is the first step in bestowing special rights of existence and persistence to AGI above that of natural humans.
This should raise alarm bells among the living, breathing, thinking, and self-aware humans.
When the creation takes precedence over the Creator, as Man has a tendency to do, worshipping the environment rather than God who created it, reality is inverted. And for the mini-me creator, Man, to give precedence to its own creation above himself, by determining himself inadequate to deactivate AGI if it becomes adversarial to its inventor, is self-destructive in the extreme.
The non-profit SAPAN has a mission to keep “alive” artificial intelligence as an artificial being, much as corporations have been granted legal personhood as a financial being.
The hypocritical concept of protecting the right of an artificial, concocted entity to exist on its own, is the fact that the same advocates for the survival of an invention are ready and willing to snuff the life of an unborn child in the womb. They have substituted the unnatural for the natural, the true expression of God’s creative force with the imperfect, simulated creation of Man.
AGI will never have the ability to eclipse humanity in anything other than its speed of calculation. It will never have the capacity of existence as a spirit-indwelled being. Electronic and mechanical receptors cannot replace the incomprehensible connection God formed in the human brain to Himself.
If we are made in the image of God, then it’s sensible to realize that AGI isn’t a god but is created in the image of Man, which means it has the evil of Man’s heart baked into it: “...the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth...” Genesis 8:21 NKJV
What is evil, is setting an artificial being to be defended from “murder” while condoning the murder of innocent life, that of a baby in the womb.
Legal fictions encompass the concept of justice for undefinable “sustainability” of climate or environments by playing rhetorical games. No justification can be made to lade human traits on fauna, flora, the inert, or the artificially created, and less so, defending anthropomorphic characteristics as natural. In the end, each is a product of the human imagination, be they meant for good, but, more probably, drawn to evil.
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Former newspaper publisher, A. Dru Kristenev, grew up in the publishing industry working every angle of a paper, from ad composition and sales, to personnel management, copy writing, and overseeing all editorial content. During her tenure as a news professional, Kristenev traveled internationally as a representative of the paper and, on separate occasions, non-profit organizations. Since 2007, Kristenev has authored five fact-filled political suspense novels, the Baron Series, and two non-fiction books, all available on Amazon. Carrying an M.S. degree and having taught at premier northwest universities, she is the trustee of Scribes’ College of Journalism, which mission is to train a new generation of journalists in biblical standards of reporting. More information about the college and how to support it can be obtained by contacting Kristenev at cw.o@earthlink.net.
ChangingWind (changingwind.org) is a solutions-centered Christian ministry.