In recent weeks AI experts have expressed alarm about runaway AI getting out of human hands, and as in sci fi literature and film, enslaving and/or destroying humanity. However, less dramatic, is the problem of AI failure. AI chat bots, such as Facebook’s Galactica, were so unreliable, generating false data, that they were shut down. Errors are being reported by ChatGPT as well. One lawyer uncritically used ChatGPT but found that generated false cases, but it seemed to make sense. Autonomous weapons systems, tied to flawed AI, could result in pre-emptive attacks, especially nuclear. Another threat comes from the design power of AI, when it is working; it may be capable of designing bioweapons that have not previously existed, giving terrorist an edge in their plots of destruction.
Dealing with technology is one of the most difficult problems, since people have come to accept technology as the magic of our age, since they get a few crumbs from the table, while the elites have the main course. I dare say for this reason, the technology problem, the foundation of the merging global technocracy, seen with Covid, along with peoples’ general ignorance of science and technology, at least in fine grain detail, will be our greatest threat to freedom.