Dear Editor,
Simon Winchester may have more intelligence and wisdom that
us or the ancient Greeks (The ancient Greeks offer a clue about what ChatGPT
means for humanity, 5-3-23) but his conclusion failed to grasp the eventual
consequences of the fundamental real-life differences in technology, the human
mind, and our currently flawed governance systems.
Advances in technology’s power, affordability, and
ubiquitousness are growing exponentially.
Our mind advances linearly.
Meanwhile our governing systems have basically flatlined and are now being
pried backward. Our minds and our
government’s failure to adapt to this exponential growth of every technologies
potential for being weaponized offers unprecedented destruction, mass murder,
and even targeted genocide for anyone with the mind and the will to use it
way. This won’t end well.
Voter overall ignorance on this reality or the many
existential threats we and our environmental infrastructure face could be
solved using ChatGPT. Ask it about the
value to humans and nature of globally achieving the United Nations 17
Sustainable Development Goals. Our
limited thinking and retaining of vital information combined with our flawed
democratic republic government operating system (founded on illusion of independence)
we cannot resolve our globally interdependent problems/threats. So says Jen Easterly, the wise Director of
CISA, our newest federal agency intending to halt the cyber threats to our
nation’s infrastructure ever since Trump was elected. She said, “Everything is
connected...interdependent...and vulnerable...we need a global approach.”
Unfortunately, our mind’s priority of defending flawed
political, economic, or religious beliefs overrides this fundamental principle
of interdependence. May God or ChatGPT
help us! We certainly appear unable to
help ourselves.
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