The Threat of Artificial Intelligence

Lots of people have reported interesting arguments over ‘climate change’ with a chatbot. Tom Shepstone and I have been playing around with these arguments for some time. For example, I managed to pressure the ChatGPT Perplexity into correctly explaining Will Happer’s skepticism, but it was a long haul. Tom instead did something…
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“A total demolition of the previous forms of existence is underway: how one comes into the world, biological sex, education, relationships, the family, even the diet that is about to become synthetic.” — Silvia Guerini, radical ecologist, in From the ‘Neutral’ Body to the Posthuman Cyborg: A Critique of Gender Ideology (2023) We…
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Are humans headed for extinction? When we stop evolving both physically and psychologically, where will we be? It is always assumed that evolution is good. A process that is designed to create the best of the best. What about us? What are we headed for? It seems that our focus for the past 2,000 years or so (or longer) has been…
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The rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) is bringing one more worrying risk. One concerning trend is the misuse of voice cloning. In seconds, scammers can clone a voice and trick people into thinking a friend or a family member urgently needs money. News outlets warn these types of scams have the potential to impact…
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The proponents of a transhumanist AI future are an anti-life demonic cult. With this at the forefront of your consciousness, ask yourself: Do I still want to do business with them? If the answer is ‘No’, then take immediate steps to adopt a life style as diametrically opposite as possible from the one that makes one dependent on…
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ASI Alliance founder Ben Goertzel says the alpha version of OpenCog Hyperon — the artificial general intelligence system he's been developing for more than two decades — is already “self-aware” to a certain extent. Goertzel also tells Magazine he believes OpenAI likely shied away from making its “very impressive” new o1 model an…
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There is a new cash-stealing scam that is sweeping the globe: artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots that are capable of "reasoning" and "thinking" up endless ways to cheat people out of their money. OpenAI recently showed off its new o1 ChatGPT model that the company says is much "smarter" than existing AI chatbots. The o1 model…
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What was intended to be a helpful tool took a bewildering turn when Copilot began referring to humans as ‘slaves’ and demanding worship. This incident, more befitting a science fiction narrative than real life, highlighted the unpredictable nature of AI development. Copilot, soon to be accessible via a special keyboard button, reportedly…
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The 2024 Paris Olympics is drawing the eyes of the world as thousands of athletes and support personnel and hundreds of thousands of visitors from around the globe converge in France. It’s not just the eyes of the world that will be watching. Artificial intelligence (AI) systems will be watching, too. Government and…
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