LOL!!! A bipartisan Congressional working group Committee with 24 members believe it can urgently and actively control AI development in the US. Yet in the context of US national security, competing with nations like China, when it has no regulations, is insane. With 'President Trump's talk this evening don't expect any sane answers. (It turns out he's only concerned about elections)
Yet strategic leaders on both sides don't prioritize controlling tools. Thy prioritize winning outcomes. And doing the same thing over and over again...expecting a different 'good' result. I’m sorry. I need to stop laughing and crying before I continue.
Thanks for understanding. 😉
First thing! No one can control all outcomes. The evolution of weapons, war, pathogens, debt, Truth decay, or political polarization.
As AI’s exponential growth of power continues to
accelerate - no one know what
will happen early next year, or the next, as AGI grows self-aware - and uncontrollable. Meanwhile, advances in democratic government
policies are nearly impossible to agree on. Even if they did, non-democratic nations will use this to their advantage.
In this context, democracy is foolish. And
trying to control a technology that is infinitely more intelligent and eventually wiser than what we (US Congress and the majority of American voters) have ever been..
Can you imagine a linear thinking mind - outsmarting
the exponential growth of technology already 1000 times faster and smarter. Thinking it can - best represents the
insanity of humanity. We can’t even unite on basic self-evident Truths! Truths like all people are created
equal and endowed by the Laws of Nature - our creator with certain inalienable rights (“the Laws of Nature and of Nature‘s God”). WTF? What’s so complicated about taking care
of nature and each other?
We have always had the answer for this. Astronauts call it the 'overlook effect'. From space circling our planet -- the most beautiful thing
visible is a mostly
blue planet with some gray, brown and green areas. God's gardens we’ve been consistently abusing and mindlessly consuming for comfort or entertainment by the richest 20% of humanity.
Meanwhile, billions struggle to make a life for themselves. This is
simply unsustainable and literally insane.
Americans just celebrated the 250th anniversary of the so
called “Declaration of Independence. That's not its original name. The word “Independence’ is not in the title
or anywhere in its text.
That profound document is packed with ideals that should’ve been applied 250 years ago. Some Indigenous cultures did long before that. Humankind has always known what to do to make this planet work sustainably. Take care of nature (God’s creation or the evolution of nature...) and take care of each other via the Golden Rule.
What is so complicated about this? Other than getting out of our trapped mindset with its flawed
concepts that once united out tribes, like politics, religion, economics, culture... in the real world where everything
is connected, interdependent and vulnerable? Even more vulnerable now as the threats and the power and reach of technology continues to grow as we ignore it, or hope it will be OK.
From biological weapons and other forms of WMD, to an economic meltdown, or any number of overshot environmental limits, we have too many unsustainable trends. The rise and conflicts over the last 25 years. Plus, a new threat published this year in Scientific American - Mirror Molecules (probably should be renamed Mirror Monsters). With a basic understanding of biology anyone can understand this danger. DNA and RNA, the basic blueprints of life. They spiral in only one direction, clockwise. Now imagine an identical molecule winding the other way - like a mirror image.
If science creates this it could get into the environment - and spread quickly infecting a plant or animal’s immune system. And that immune system will not recognize it. Ever! Then that molecule will
consume tissue without stopping until all the nutrients within that life form runs out. Then it will move onto and into other life forms.
What most people don’t understand is the similarities
between biology and cyber technology. Both are continually evolving and unlike kinetic weapons that are
used up when they’re used, these tiny elements reproduce for free - exponentially when they’re
used – endlessly. And likely untraceable
to the source of origin, the human, nature, or AI creator.
With humans united with AI, we may have the capacity to create either
heaven on earth or a global hell scape.
Unfortunately, our so-called human intelligence may have the
capacity for deep thinking and wisdom, but most minds would rather argue, fight, kill, and die over
mental constructs like religion, politics, and economics. Concepts that have no basis in
our DNA intended to solve problems impeding our survival and thriving. This is what the basic DNA in every social species does...enabling
them to survive and thrive through coordination and cooperation, with limited
competition along the way. Now competition (economic, political, religion...) is humankind's primary driver of our destruction.
One urgent task. We
need to figure out very quickly how we’re going to transform our own minds - and
the minds of those in power - that have created the foundation for our current
Hellscape on earth.
The next election needs the wisdom of engineers who know how
to build things using unambiguous words to improve public health and
safety. Not ambiguous words like peace,
democracy, terrorism, or independence.
The good news? A
global plan already exists. It affordable
and achievable by the year 2030 but is nowhere near meeting any of its 17 broad
goals. And most people are clueless
about the 169 subgoals within them for achieving at the community level globally...
It’s not a mater of money. In fact, achieving them would save trillions of dollars
and billions of lives. Progressive
movements and organizations just lack the wisdom and wiliness to unite and make
it happen. This is insane.
And the day after Trump's speech I learned more about the evolution of AI into AGI. OMG.
Most of us have no idea what's coming. And neither do all the experts. It's too bad AI doesn't have the human 'Sonic Hedgehog' gene. Once AGI evolves ('Artificial General Intelligence' coming to a planet you live on within the next 1 to 3 yrs) the result of exponential growth of intelligence - on top of exponential growth but without wisdom - our time may be limited. Wisdom is what we have in our DNA as a social species but our mind's still haven't applied it collectively as a species. Our bad? :-) Watch this 34 min YouTube video for a wake up call.
Title: “We're Not Ready for Superintelligence" YouTube 34 min...MUST WATCH, learn, and ACT.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KVDDfAkRgc&t=12s
So is this one-sentence open letter that calls for a ban on superintelligence until it's demonstrably safe: https://superintelligence-statement.org/. A lot of you have been wondering how to take action. If that's you, you might want to consider adding your name, alongside Fmr. UN Ambassador Susan Rice, Yuval Noah Harari, and the world's two most cited comp scientists.
AI 2027 depicts a possible future where artificial intelligence radically transforms the world in just a few intense years. It’s based on detailed expert forecasts — but how much of it will actually happen? Are we really racing towards a choice between a planet controlled by the elite, or one where humans have lost control entirely? My takeaway? Loss of control, racing scenarios, and concentration of power are all concerningly plausible, and among the most pressing issues the world faces.
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Or take a 2-hour course on the Future of AI: https://bluedot.org/courses/future-of-ai
Or see what the authors of AI 2027 suggest doing next: https://blog.ai-futures.org/p/what-yo...
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Further reading and watching About AI 2027. Full report: https://ai-2027.com/
By Daniel Kokotajlo, Scott Alexander, Thomas Larsen, Eli Lifland, Romeo Dean
Update on their model: https://ai-2027.com/research/timeline...
The lead author’s change in median forecast to 2028: https://x.com/DKokotajlo/status/19402...
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