The latest AI guru to issue a pessimistic warning about the uncontrolled rapid advance of AI is former Googler, Geoffrey Hinton. He has resigned from Google to now proclaim that the technology that he helped develop could destroy the world as we know it. This would occur in the short term by job displacement, but in the longer term, the singularity, when computers reach human intelligence, and move beyond it, there is the existential threat to the human race, if not all life on Earth. That is but another reason why we need to have an interest in these debates coming from science and technology, for otherwise a global technocracy will creep up upon us, ands devour our last drops of freedom.
Dealing with runaway advances in science and technology, as shown from the biomedical sphere, will be the hardest battle, as while some of the glimmer has gone from “the science,” most people are not scientifically literate, and up on the debates, and hence can be manipulated by the technocrats. That is why I have a mission to get up material to at least educate the Australian public.
