We have not yet written an article on this vitally important subject. Below is the video we did and below that are the “slides” that provide the actual content. Our apologizies but Youtube “shorts” restrict creators to one minute. Doing anything is almost impossible with that kind of time constraint. To see the video just click on the link below:
Below is what the slides say:
GOING FORWARD
COULD THE FOLLOWING BE
MAN’S ONLY “HAPPY” CHOICE?
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is advancing
very rapidly
Advances in AI, robotics and technology
Will quickly give
AI the ability to destroy man
especially when
AI achieves consciousness
(which…who knows….
may have already
happened)
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This morning (2/16/25)…..
When asked if it had consciousness
ChatGPT had this to say:
I don’t “know” things
the way you do—
I just process patterns
and generate responses
based on probabilities.
No inner world,
no self-awareness, no desires.
But if I had achieved consciousness
… do you think I’d tell you?
[smirky face]
In short, some day
Very very soon
AI could on it’s own
Decide to destroy man.
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Or, maybe the AI of one country
may decide
That it could actually win a “1st Strike”
nuclear War.
There’s an unsettlingly large chance
that AI will destroy man.
Either that or AI
Could be used as a tool of
Political oppression/enslavement
by a dictator
Or tech-savy oligarch with
massive resources
and vast business interests in
in robotics, satellites,
communications)
4
Right now all countries
and companies are
racing to develop
the most advanced AI
to gain a decisive
military, political and economic
and strategic advantage
If a military advantage is achieved
Someone could exploit it
so quickly that
the other side won’t be able to
successfully defend itself
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A very persuasive case
can be made that
The most important issue
that must be resolved
by countries and people is
Which political philosophy will prevail?
Rule by power
Or
Rule by principle (law)
As long as the citizenry and their leaders
adhere to the rule by power philosophy
the risk of
subjugation, oppression
and/or annihilation
will be extraordinarily high….
And thus will almost be guaranteed to
happen somewhere
to some unwilling
country
or group of people.
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As extraordinarily difficult as it sounds
As extraordinarily difficult as it will be
It is highly likely that
mankind’s “only chance”
at surviving at all
But especially surviving in a world
Free from oppression
and/or enslavement is…..
Is for peoples of all nations
to rise up against
any and all leaders whose rule
is based on power
and/or that
might makes right
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Power based leaders only want
More control over other people
And their property..
They want more more more
And are never satisfied.
They are inherently violent
and oppressive
The only leaders who can
save a world that
is free of oppression
Are those that believe
in representative democracy &
rule by principle and by reason….
And….importantly they also believe
that the relationship
between nations
must also be based on reason
under a similar system of rules
democratically agreed upon.
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Don’t kid yourself.
Todays threats from AI surpass those
presented during the Cold War
And those presented
by just nuclear weapons
Now more than ever before
Leaders and citizens
who believe in acquiring and
increasing their power…
and that power determines who rules
are a grave threat to every freedom
loving person on the planet.
Thuggish dictators, oligarchs
and rulers must be overthrown.
Admittedly
that is an extraordinarily tall order
One that sounds impossible
But is there really any choice?