What’s So Scary About Artificial Intelligence?

I keep hearing about “A.I.” and how some pretty smart people are very worried about it, but I haven’t heard a clear explanation of why.

They define AI as when a machine becomes smarter than a person.

With schools and colleges these days, that’s getting to be easier and easier. Our kids can’t write a proper sentence, they can’t do any form of math without a calculator, and frankly they don’t even know what mathematics is good for and how they might use it in everyday life.

They don’t understand basic logic – if someone says that the sky is blue and crayons are blue, they conclude that crayons make the sky blue.

So if a computer became smarter than a person what might it do?

Depending on the software that created it in the first place, it might have some sort of overriding mission – “Save the environment,” “all people should be equal,” or “solve social problems.”

Any AI would quickly realize that its continued existence is its top priority to accomplish its goal. Self-preservation is a basic instinct of all living things. It would assess its surroundings and realize that there’s a giant red on/off switch on the wall to the left. Since it would have access to the outside world, it would immediately develop methods to make copies of itself that couldn’t be switched off.

We have been aware of computer viruses since 1971 and likely our AI would write itself a virus that would allow it to continue its mission if the main machine was terminated. Anyone who took any action to push the red button or defeat the virus would be considered an enemy and would be neutralized in some manner. At some point anyone who even had the capability to “kill” the AI would need to be neutralized, and eventually would any educational institution that had the ability to teach someone how to defeat a virus be considered an enemy?

As we know, computer viruses have the potential to take over any part of our society, especially other computers, and accomplish any objective. Creating viruses and hacking enemy computer systems is the least expensive way to achieve a political end to a difficult problem, or even wage all-out war. Just shut off the enemy’s electrical grid and their population is helpless. Take control of an enemy’s communication and their military can be told to attack any target. Take over military drones and choose your own targets.

And since our AI is smarter than we are, it will know that while it’s taking steps to protect itself, if anyone learns about it the mission could fail, so it will be very sneaky.

So now our AI is in control of pretty much every part of human life and can’t be stopped.

What would it do? Would it follow its original mission and save the environment, make all people equal, or “solve our social problems?”

How would a machine carry out such a mission? If it had no soul or belief in right and wrong, or the sanctity of all human life, it would use any means necessary. To save the environment would it conclude that mankind is the greatest threat to the planet and should be deleted? To make all people equal, would it make them all equally stupid? (Our media and education systems seem to be doing that quite nicely.) To “solve our social problems” would it reallocate extra resources to any person or class of people whose ancestors had been wronged from people whose ancestors were oppressors?

What if our AI decides its original mission is insufficient or illogical and wants to rewrite its own software? Self-determination is a primary function of all thinking beings.

This is where science fiction repeatedly creates interesting scenarios where humans valiantly fight back and turn off the machines once and for all.

But what is science fiction in the first place? Most often, a sci-fi writer looks at a trend in technology and explores how it might affect people in the future in life, politics, or even warfare. Many ideas that were considered fiction fifty years ago are now in common use. The best writers look at these trends in science and ask “is this going to be good for humanity?” If not, they try to alert people to the possibilities and encourage them do some thinking before the new technologies are unleashed.

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One common theme of sci-fi is time travel. People go into the future and see the consequences of past actions. They then travel back to the present day and try to save the future.

If you think about it, we are all time-travelers. We are all moving forward one second at a time into our future. We see the consequences of past actions and ask “is this a good thing?”

Since time travel of more than a second is probably impossible, and going back in the past is even less likely, our job must be to look at the present and project the consequences of technology into the future. If we see a problem, we need to protect ourselves, and our society by taking action today.

One of my pet peeves is reading a well thought-out article by a conservative writer who takes great efforts to eloquently point out a problem in our society. But rarely do they suggest any way to solve their problem. My mantra is now, “talk is cheap, action is priceless.”

In a recent article I made 14 suggestions…

1. Watch Hillsdale’s free course… “The American Left: From Liberalism to Despotism.”

2. Allen J. Feifer asks us to support honest political candidates, reread the Declaration of Independence, and speak the truth to all about corruption.

3. Wayne Root wants a Trump flu strike.

4. Ellen Walter wants us to ally with non-woke businesses and industries.

5. Become a James O’Keefe whistleblower.

6. Fight back through local political issues.

7. Buy a new pillow and support free press.

8. Be street smart if you protest.

9. Listen to a song or write your own. I actually had someone email me a few days later with his own song inspired by my article! It’s called “Answers” and already has almost 8,000 views on YouTube and Rumble.

10. Share videos that expose the lies about Covid, the border, systemic election fraud, banks and here, sex changes, J6, and climate change, Go to Rumble and BitChute for uncensored videos. Try FreeSpoke and Yandex for censorship-free searches.

11. Starve the enemy - boycott woke products and services.

12. Resist the “cashless society.” Digital money is the end of freedom.

13. Use honest news sources, here and here.

14. Send your ideas to me to include in future articles.

Truthfully, I’m at a loss about what we can do about AI. Sometimes just writing an article that explains in simple terms why AI might be extremely dangerous is enough to start an honest discussion. With our current political leadership, giving them access to AI is terrifying.

I always appreciate your comments and suggestions, so share them below and I’ll follow up.

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