Having covered the rise of the machines issue, the explosion of artificial intelligence advances, the question of what can be done naturally arises, and dealing with technology, this is difficult as science and technology are the magic of our age, and the technocrats our equivalent of wizards. That makes these things highly resistant to criticism. Still, there has been suggestions of a “pause” coming from the inner circle of somewhat less dark cyber-wizards, 1,000 of them, wanting an immediate halt to the mega-AI projects along the lines of ground-breaking GPT-4. That includes Elon Musk, who is otherwise on board with the transhuman agenda. “Recent months have seen AI labs locked in an out-of-control race to develop and deploy ever more powerful digital minds that no one – not even their creators – can understand, predict, or reliably control,” the letter says. “Powerful AI systems should be developed only once we are confident that their effects will be positive and their risks will be manageable.”
That sounds fine, but is now much too late as an AI arms race has begun with Russia and communist China, who care nothing about ethics, and seek, as was said in The Lord of the Rings, only power. The world belongs to the one winning this AI race, Putin said: ““Artificial intelligence is the future, not only for Russia, but for all humankind,” said Putin, reports RT. “It comes with colossal opportunities, but also threats that are difficult to predict. Whoever becomes the leader in this sphere will become the ruler of the world.”