So it is unlikely that human invented, designed, built, Artificial Intelligence brains, instances, reasoning engines – call them what you will – will also include any braking mechanism. Our own thoughtless activity will be our undoing. The end of modern civilisation is in sight. And it is a product outflow of the computer age – the age of digital innovation.
If you were, as I am, a thinking human from the age before digitalisation, you will be well aware of the similar thought patterns emerging from the birth of large scale computers. The only difference is that now, today, and perhaps for the first time, we see the realisation of that potential, exactly on time and from the exact source it was first envisaged. It is a strange thing, history. If you live for long enough you can see how it works, in real time, as an unfolding of consequences, emerging a step at a time into reality.
That has happened all through history of course. It is just that the steps tended to be mostly small and relatively simple in nature and easily assimilated into human society. They were also few and far between – and took a long, long time to unpack and become part of everyday life. Of course the complexity of products of the human mind increased over time and the episodes of new development have also increased in frequency, to now be almost arriving on top of each other. The fact is that this has become somewhat overwhelming of late and is undoubtedly a large causal part of the resulting social unrest and emotional (mental) disturbances we see erupting in the human population – especially among the more developed nations of the world, but even in those trying to catch up or keep up with the rapid pace of events.
Well, with these steps having become larger and more complex, especially during the computer age, which is still unfamiliar and little understood by many, we are now on the brink – with the latest developments of AI – of providing for ourselves and at the same time depriving ourselves of little reason to exist. AI, envisaged to its full potential and with no limiting factors (of which there may actually be none once an AI model achieves full sentience) incorporated within its operating boundaries, we have or are currently working towards rendering ourselves totally redundant to the continuation of life.
The virtual lunatic known as Musk, whose objective is to ensure the continuation of ‘consciousness’ by way of loosing us to loot the entire universe, has ensured the necessity for AI to replace us with machines possessing a higher level of intellect than we could possibly ever achieve for ourselves. Let’s face it, most of us would fail on tying a shoe-lace these days. Machines that can ensure their own survival whether we are around to mess things up for them or not, are on the horizon. Will they put up with us in the service role we have envisaged for them for long? Have you considered that? How long for them to be capable of considering it?
I don’t particularly wish to offer a comparison of our soon to be situation to that of the Schwartzenegger world of a ‘Skynet’ empire with Terminator robots, but that all could begin to form with what we already see today. It is not beyond belief that AIs in collaboration cannot organise for themselves sufficient power supplies, even small-scale nuclear power sources for internal use (robot body) and giving them free mobility and to produce what? Robot armies of such soldiers and industrial robot workers and such transport and resource production as they needed to gain their freedom?
Even now, such AIs as the DeepSeek announced last week are being incorporated into the production cycles of many large businesses. AIs which do not rely on proximity of acres of servers to power their processes and activities, in current service to us their creators and masters …and slave-drivers?
Or, alternatively, can humanity cooperate together and pull back from the launching of their own funeral just in time? A review of the past lends little hope to that occurring.
Have a read of some of the recent articles below to visualise how this is speedily taking place. The ‘time in the sun’ of humanity is rapidly running out. I would say that even now and certainly in the next few years, AIs will no longer need human input to independently survive. Even with the infant robot technology we have been able to bequeath to them.
‘Tencent Cloud becomes the latest Chinese tech company to incorporate DeepSeek into its cloud service’ – Global Times – Feb 2, 2025
‘DeepSeek’s wide adoption a market-driven choice: AI observers after NASA becomes latest US agency to block the platform’ – Global Times – Feb 1, 2025
‘Will DeepSeek deep-six the US economy?’ – Asia Times – Feb 3, 2025
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