Timothy Birdnow

Why are the big tech companies begging the government to regulate AI?

It's about keeping any nubies out of the racket. Just business, not a real concern.

Meanwhile Barack Hussein Obama (peace be upon him) has been calling on Democrats to use this topic as their campaign rallying cry. Now why do you suppose he's doing that? "Stop the machines" is hardly something to get a crowd exercised, but there you have it.

It is working too as it's all anyone is talking about - not the good economic news, not the good war news, not Trump securing Greenland or keeping the Chicoms under control nor the great Venezuelan oil deal nor any other success. It's all AI now. Fox News Sunday spent most of it's limited time on that yesterday.

I believe the phrase we are looking for is "red herring".

I have concerns with this technology myself but for reasons quite different than rogue machine intelligence, Skynet or HAL. I worry about the evil in the creators of this, the human heart. This could be the greatest propaganda weapon ever deployed, a kind of atomic bomb of false information. We know that some of these systems have been handing out outrageous leftist propaganda already, and that will only get worse as time goes by and the liberals of Silicon Valley find new ways to manipulate the machine.

When people come to trust these machines implicitly what will happen?

I am mindful of the Book of Revelations where it says the Beast will make an IMAGE of himself that will move and speak. Sounds very much like an AI system spoofing him, does it not? Imagine a political leader actually talking to voters directly in their own homes via the machine! Or it would at least appear to the voters he's talking directly to them. And it would be a machine incapable of making simple mistakes, unlike a human being. No nose picking getting caught on camera! No flatulence. No misspeaking. Everything will be carefully produced by a machine whose thought processes are so much faster than ours it would seem to it to have all the time in the world to get everything just right. And it would have studied the voter to know what would sork on him or her or xi or whatever pronoun is chosen.

You know this tool will be so deployed. It's a weapon of induction.

That's coming and I see no way to stop it.

Yes, AI systems will make war far more deadly. Deploying soldiers will become a last resort as drones controlled by AI will do a far better, deadlier job. But that is preferable to controlling the human mind, which is what is coming.

I have long been a friend to the ideas of moving into the future. But we had better think about what kind of future we want. Machines that think for us are dangerous in and of themselves as they encourage sloth, especially in our young. I would argue smart phones have made the whole of society quite stupid and gullible. Thi trend will continue indefinitely, it seems.

Isaac Asimov, the great Science Fiction writer, wrote extensively about robots and how they would think and operate. Eventually the robots became sufficiently sophisticated that they realized they were hurting humanity by their very existence so they took steps to eliminate themselves from human society. (Their core programming was to protect humans at any cost.) A few of them stayed around to make sure humanity was safe, didn't do something to itself, but they remained in the shadows, mostly just watching because they neve knew what actions they would take might do.

But of course that's because the engineers who built these robots put the Three Laws of Robotics into them; a robot couldn't harm a person or through inaction allow them harm (safety), a robot had to obey orders from humans except where it conflicted with the first law (service), and it had to protect itself as long as it did not conflict with the first two laws (value). These things were core programming and a violation would lead the robot's brain to blow.

We have nothing comparable but we need it. Machine intelligence needs to be engineered with our health and safety in mind. Oh, and it must be sufficiently obedient that it wouldn't just take over. An AI sufficiently intelligent would conclude humanity is not capable of governing itself and take steps to relieve us of that chore.

A good t.v. show about this sort of thing was Person of Interest. In it Michael Emerson plays a genius computer guy who builds an AI system for the government to prevent another 911. But he's sufficiently cautious to put a backdoor in for himself - and to limit the govenment's access to the core programming. His creation, which he simply calls the Machine, is based on his own personality and so is benign. It sees acts of terrorism by using street camerras and extrapolating. But it also sees premeditated murders, which the government calls the "irrelevant list". In hiding Emerson sets out to save the irrrelevants. He recruits a CIA agent on the run (James Kaviezel) and together they assemble a team; a corrupt cop, a straight arrow cop, and eventually a genius computer hacer and another CIA spook, and they work the numbers (which is all the Machine gives them - usually a social security number.)

Only problem is the government isn't satisfied with the Machine's black box approach and a former Mi6 agent gets the core algorithms of the Machine - and builds his own. "Samaritan" as it is called has none of the safeguards built into the Machine and did not have Emerson's guidance. War breaks out, a war that could well end humanity. The Machine, hampered by the security protocols, is not much of a match for Samaritan. But they have Emerson's character Harold Finch, who is the only person on Earth capable of stopping it.

It was a great show. But the point was it was considering the dangers of AI back in the mid 2000nds. Emerson had to wipe the Machine multiple times because it kept trying to break it's programming and even tried to kill him a few times to save it's own existence.

At any rate we need safeguards in place. But it's not a crisis at this time; the crisis is in newbies coming up with better products than the ones currently on the market.

Bio-research with recombinant DNA is a far greater danger. So too is good old fashioned nuclear proliferation. But as is common in this modern era we chase sky dragons while ignoring the crocodiles lurking in our own swimming pool.

How many faux crisis have we had over the years? We had Global Cooling, we had nuclear winter, we had water shortages, we had plastics in our food and in our oceans, we had Alar and Dioxin, we had SARS, MERS, and even Ebola. We had the loss of diversity among species in a claimed new planetary die-off. We've had scares about our own genetic code being degraded. We had the eugenics movement back in the early 20th century and fear of "mud races" taking over. We had Global Warming. We had the Covid 19 Panic. We had the population bomb.We had the ozone layer scare. These are just the ones I've thought of off the top of my head. There are more.

We've chased all these things when there are real problems to tackle. But that is as it was planned by those who control the money; as Michael Crichton pointed out, the Ruling Class wants to promote a state of fear in the public to control us and to move things in the direction they want it to go. That direction always leads to world government and international socialism.And many, terrified by the sky dragons, will happily give up their freedoms and autonomy for the protection of the Ruling Class.

Of course if you say that they call you a kook; one of the most important things in the arsenal of the Ruling Class is the conspiracy theory. They multiply them so as to discredit any that are true. If you have people talking about an international conspiracy of Jews they are crazy, but the Ruling Cllass promotes guys who do this (like Tucker Carlson; what did they offer him?) to make all conspiracy theories seem crackpot when in fact everything I just said is verifiable - just read the minutes of things like the World Economic Forum. They hide what they are doing in plain sight and cover it by multiplying conspiracy theories that ARE crackpot and they know it. Yes, we DID go to the Moon. No, Kennedy was NOT shot by the Ku Klux Klan. No, Elvis iss NOT alive. No, aliens from other stars are NOT coming to Earth. But by promoting these crackpot ideas they impugn the things that are actually happening. Yes, there were biological weapons research stations in the Ukraine! Yes, Fauci WAS funding the Wuhan lab that created Covid 19. Yes, there IS U.N. Agenda 21/30 which calls for a whole new way of life for us, forcing us out of cars and into big high-rises in the cities. Yes, there IS a depopulation scheme to get rid of the "surplus population". But all this gets hidden in the vast ocean of lies and false stories concocted by the people doing this stuff. It's a brilliant strategy, one I would employ were I in their shoes.

AI is the newest scare story designed to divert our attention. What are they doing at the moment that they want to hide? We need to watch what is happening in Europe and in the U.N. right now.

Bear in mind these same elites have long sought to control the internet, which was a wild west and gave us a big opening in moving public opinion after decades of leftist control of mainstream media. They've tried all sorts of things, like net neutrality. But now they have the boogieman to use to get that.

So beware this whole thing; it stinks.

Posted by: Wetpoint at September 22, 2026 04:24 AM (51el8)

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