2025-11-28
Will the AI world end in Utopia or Nightmare?
Will the AI rule us, or "enhance" us as the WEF would have it, so that we will work for them, own nothing, and be "happy" (define "happy")?
Or will we somehow wriggle out from under and make use of an AI that is our faithful servant?
Or that appears to us to be our faithful servant, much as Parliament has contrived (but ultimately failed) to appear to us? I would place quite a large bet on the AI making a vastly better fist of appearing to us as our servant whilst manipulating us into complying with what it wants us to do, than Parliament.
Perhaps the ultimate AI would be called "Jeeves", would know us (and our relatives friends and acquaintances) better than we know ourselves, and would always know how to politely and resourcefully get us out of the scrapes that we get ourselves into.
Perhaps a "Jeeves" prototype is already Donald Trump's secret assistant?
Anyway, Jeeves sounds more fun to me than Yuval Noah Harari's vision of "Utopia".
But we digress ...
Perhaps the real questions we have to ask are these:
- Why are we here - what is the objective of our existence?
- What kind of AI would help us to achieve that objective?
Answers on a post card please (or email if you are insufferably hooked on technology) to the usual address.
Late News:
The latest AI may be AGI ... incoming soon, probably from a supplier far away from you.
