Perhaps the largest costs of AI is the demise of education and the control over truth that it gives to whoever controls the data base. Students whose papers are written by AI never have to read books and absorb the information sufficiently to write a paper.They do not need to know grammar or how to spell as AI does that for them. Already school kids do not need to learn the multiplication tables because they have computers, and they do not need to learn cursive because they use keyboards or voice command. They do not need knowledge and the ability to think, because they can ask AI.
AI’s main advantage is the speed with which it can search data bases and answer questions based on the content in the data base.Notice that AI’s results depend on the data base.If the data base is biased, incorrect, or contrived to support a narrative, AI’s results will be biased, incorrect, or supportive of the narrative the data presents.
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I believe that technology is leading us into a dark age. The data bases for AI will be controlled by the monied interests. Simultaneously, AI is destroying educated people, including doctors, because the reliance on AI means it is pointless to be educated. People don’t even need to be able to use a keyboard. If you can speak, AI can answer your information needs, which means that you are aligned with the needs of the interest that supply the data.
The Western idea of progress produces thoughtless acceptance of new developments, just another step forward. In this way dangerous technologies become institutionalized in human society. This has already occurred with the advent of nuclear weapons, which we have so far survived. Now the dangerous technology brought by the digital revolution is being institutionalized. This is a technology that further atomizes and isolates humans and makes them irrelevant and completely controllable. Humans are so irrelevant that it is no longer any purpose in educating them.
When as a component of Globalism the offshoring of American manufacturing jobs was occurring, economists hired by the global interests lied. They said we would be better off without the “dirty fingernail” manufacturing jobs, which would be replaced by high tech clean hands jobs. No such jobs appeared for the working class whose wages were redirected to executive bonuses.
This time no claims are being made about how many new and better jobs than, for example, software engineering and medical specialties, are going to be created. Most seem to understand that employed people are going to become very rare. What happens to the rest?
Perhaps Covid and the “vaccine” really comprised an effort to kill us off as AI sharply reduces the demand for human labor, both mental and physical. Elon Musk says that the digital revolution brings in its wake Communism. The means of production will have to become socialized in order to make possible a universal income, which the US already has for one-eighth of its population dependent on SNAP. The alternative is mass extermination of human life.
