Brandon Smith has done two very readable articles attacking the mythology that has arisen over AI. The World Economic Forum has been championing the idea of a "Fourth Industrial Revolution," more profound in its implications than the previous revolutions. This time round, the fundamental nature of humanity is changed, via transhumanism. Humans will merge with quantum computers, which have supposedly obtained consciousness in what has been called the "singularity," which is alleged to occur withing 20 years:
World Economic Forum philosopher, Yuval Harari, sees this transformation in a quasi-religious framework, that humans will transcend their biological limits and become like "gods." And where have we heard that before? Smith counters by showing that the present claims of AI are vastly exaggerated:
"There is no evidence of a single benefit to AI on a broader social scale. At most, it looks like it will be good at taking jobs away from web developers and McDonald's drive-thru employees. The globalist notion that AI will create a robotic renaissance of art, music, literature, and scientific discovery is utter nonsense. AI has proven to be nothing more than a tool of mediocre convenience, but that's actually why it's so dangerous.
I suspect the WEF has changed its ideas about what AI should be because it's not living up to the delusional aspirations the elites originally had for it. They've been waiting for a piece of software to come to life and start giving them insights into the mechanics of the universe, and they're starting to realize that's never going to happen. Instead, the elitists are increasingly shifting their focus to the melding of the human and digital worlds. They want to fabricate the necessity of AI because human dependence on the technology serves the purposes of centralization.
But what would this actually look like? Well, it requires the population to continue to get dumber while AI becomes more integral to society.
For example, it is widely accepted at this point that a college education is no indication of intelligence or skill. Millions of graduates entering the workforce today display an unsettling level of incompetence. This is partially because college educators are less capable and ideologically biased and the average curriculum has degraded. But we also need to start accounting for the number of kids coasting their way through school using ChatGPT and other cheat boxes.
They don't need to learn anything; the algorithm and their cell phone cameras do it all for them. This trend is disturbing because human beings tend to take the easiest path in every aspect of survival. Most people stopped learning how to grow food because industrial farming does it for us. They stopped learning how to hunt because there are slaughterhouses and refrigerated trucks. Many Zennials today are incapable of cooking for themselves because they can get takeout delivered to their door any time they want. They barely talk on the phone or create physical communities any more because texting and social media have become the intermediaries in human interaction.
Yes, everything is "easier," but that does not mean anything is better."
As well, I find Brandon Smith, a Christian conservative, has a thoughtful take on the spiritual ramifications of the AI cult:
"A couple years back I wrote an article titled 'Luciferianism: A Secular Look At A Destructive Globalist Belief System.' My goal in that piece was to outlined the large amount of evidence that globalists are in fact a kind of cult of organized psychopaths (people without empathy that take joy in destruction for the sake of personal gain). I concluded that globalists do indeed have a religion, and their root belief system according to the evidence is Luciferianism.
Yes, I'm sure there will be naysayers out there that will scoff at this notion, but the facts are undeniable. There is a distinct occult element to globalism, and Luciferianism pops up consistently as the root philosophy. I think I broke this down rather effectively in the article and I won't rehash all the evidence here; people are welcome to read it if they wish.
I wrote from a secular standpoint because Luciferianism is an inherently destructive ideology even when viewed outside of the lens of Christian belief. Beyond that, there are psychological elements that need to be addressed that Christianity often ignores. Luciferian philosophy is tailor made for narcissistic and sociopathic people. The root of the cult is about "special" human beings that are not hindered by the boundaries of conscience, morals or ethics. Lack of empathy is seen as an advantage to progress and the ultimate goal of Luciferianism is godhood – A person becoming like a god, whether through being worshiped by others, the power of influence or by technological methods of extending life and abilities.
But what does this have to do with AI?
I believe that globalists view AI with such reverence because they think it is a new form of life, or an ultimate form of life – A life that they are creating (as gods create life). And, if you think about it symbolically, this new "life" is actually made in the image of its creators: It has no empathy, no remorse, no guilt, no love. For lack of a better word, it is soulless, much like globalist psychopaths are soulless."
https://alt-market.us/artificial-intelligence-a-secular-look-at-the-digital-antichrist/
Smith concludes this train of thought by saying that AI for the globalists, is exactly the anti-thesis of Christ, as the transhumanism of the AI project, if it could be completed is the negation of life as we know it. And if anything is evil, that is.