Let’s Go to the Movies: June 21, 2018: Elon Musk on Artificial Intelligence

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1. Assuming that “Moores law” remains in effect and humanity continues to have the technological infrastructure to advance further in that area of research, I do see ‘the singularity’ as an inevitable destination (or rather that it may have already been achieved but has not been made public yet). I am not anti-technology nor am I even ‘Anti-AI’ but I do feel that it could be dangerous for humans to go about creating such things given that those people who are pouring billions into such projects are operating 100% out of fear.

   Many of the corporate and military contracts dealing with AI are funded by trans-humanists who admittedly are interested in creating AI and cybernetic machines with the sole purpose of trying to “cheat death” by down loading their consciousness into a hardrive and operating system complex enough to handle all the data stored in the human brain. Many of those same trans-humanists (Ray Kurzweil etc.) preach about how humans should be taken out of the equation when it comes to governance because an AI machine would ‘be so much more impartial and logical’. When it comes to people like that (and the AI R&D projects/initiatives they are funding) I feel that we as human beings should learn to deal with our own issues internally and as a society before we go ‘handing over the reigns’ to intelligent computers in any way (that includes blending them with our physiology).

   I do not say this out of paranoia but rather out of seeing humanity as already leaning very heavily on the crutch of much technology that is devoid of morality or a balance with the living planet that sustains us.

   I feel that we must first learn to stand on our own, truly knowing our selves and realigning our selves with the symbiotic relationships that all other lifeforms on earth have formed with the living planet that sustains them before we go becoming dependent on yet another quick fix. Intelligent computers have great promise in the hands of a Self aware, compassionate, unified humanity…to assist in expanding the scope of our understanding, opening up new creative potentials, and augmenting our connectivity to each other in real time. But the large majority of humanity is not Self aware, and many are not guided by compassion either.

   We need to remember who and what we are, and make our connection with divine intelligence the foundation of our civilization before we go adding more complexity to the equation of what it means to be human. We need to nourish a connection with the planet, each other, Creator, and our deeper Self that goes beyond technology or words before we delve deeper into a materialistic explosion of intellect that would be the result of merging with AI. At least that is my take on it.

2. There is no doubt he is a smart guy and (aside from the whole child labor for cobalt mining and strip mining for lithium thing for the batteries) I do like his cars, but his whole obsession with transhumanism (putting microchips in people’s brains and linking them up wirelessly to AI being beamed down from satellites) is a reckless and risky endeavor in my opinion.

   Catherine, What are your current thoughts on his “Neuralink” project(s)?

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