2024-09-14
Much has been written about AI and much no doubt still has to be written (possibly also by AI), so what is our future - will humanity slip the ring over AI's (virtual) digit and embark on a mutually supportive and happy life together, spawning Yuval Noah Harari's happy brood of Davos-style hybrid transhumans, or will it all end in tears and an acrimonious parting of the ways, with humanity desperately trying to pull the plug on the AI's power supplies before the latter's drone swarms can intercept us?
Well, as we have remarked in these (virtual) pages before, there's AI and then there's all the other varieties of AI.
Clearly Google knows a great deal about AI, its uses and misuses, and Google whistle-blower Zach Vorhies has been closer to the AI scene, for good or ill, than most of us.
Here he is interviewed by Andy Steele of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, and a wide-ranging interview it is (although 9/11 does get a mention in passing). As with all of humanity's creations, AIs can be designed and used for good as well as for ill - not merely for world domination.
So what are the paths that lie ahead; and if we choose wrong, will we get a second chance?
" ... we are going to see the destruction of the human-centred economy, and we're going to go toward the creation of an AI-centred economy ... hopefully they can make all of us so rich that we ... don't care, because right now ... the debt load's going up ... we have to ... have a reset of this current system ... "
Let's work for a soft reset ... and yes - he does (finally!) end on an optimistic note.
(59 minutes)
