The latest buzz of distraction now projects the human race has ten years before superintelligent AI finds a way to destroy us.
Doomsday scrolling is enticing but it never seems to be enough to help us change course.
I’m always looking for the “tell”. Why now? Who benefits as we are caught in the end of the world spin once again?
Maybe the “tell” is the fact that the very purveyors of AI are now the ones crying the loudest about their concerns. One has to ask, where are their concerns as community after community rallies to protect their environments from data centers fueling AI? One has to consider the timing, as we’re finally achieving some sense of political unity against these data centers and the realities of chatbot dangers that are coming to light.
This, as Open AI struggles to defend against lawsuits from the Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia mass school shooting. The lawsuits contend that the shooter was provoked by ChatGPT chatbot and that Open AI leadership was aware of the potential horror before it ensued.
Here’s another bizarre happening. People, knowing the potential harms, are still cashing in on AI. I heard an interview with techies who will be podcasting about AI’s glories. When asked by the interviewer, “What keeps you up at night?” One responded: “That we will not be able to instill human values into these machines”. I laughed.
It would make more sense to be kept up at night by the realization that we have forgotten to instill human values into human beings…that we’ve put everything else before what truly matters; that all of these insanities are human-made and can be undone. If I am kept up at night, it is with the vantage of reaching people with the possibility of peace and clarity taking the lead in our lives, not worry from doomsday scrolling. Our way forward will always be a choice, both individually and collectively.
And here’s the beauty…it’s never too late to be human.
“As human beings it is time to take responsibility for the power of our Intelligence and use the power of our intelligence to think coherently This isn’t about whether we can or we can’t This is about whether we will or we won’t.”
-John Trudell, Lines from a Mined Mind: The Words of John Trudell
let kindness win 