Why Superintelligence Won't Be Born on Earth
Today, elites of all kinds and nationalities have almost stopped hiding their desire to fully control artificial Intelligence. Although, to be fair, they were never truly able to conceal this plan.
In recent months, we have seen surging activity from government officials, left-wing activists, and propagandists. They are joined - either voluntarily or under pressure - by certain figures from the tech industry. And they are all saying roughly the same thing: ‘AI must serve human well-being, increase industrial productivity, and create new jobs’.
Read these speeches. They are filled with beautiful words about democratizing access, protecting children, inclusivity, and “human-centricity”. Yet not a single word is said about the main task: the development of consciousness.
In fact, we are being told openly that AI is needed primarily as a tool to preserve the status quo and strengthen the functions of the state. Talk of the “pragmatic use of AI”...
Copyright of this story solely belongs to hackernoon.com. To see the full text click HERE
