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an 11 page wired article of one computer scientist's attempt at coming to terms with the looming dangers of advanced technology
The Drives of Artificial Intelligence
I am hopeful of the future. It seems to be the sanest way to continue living into the next day. But I still have my worries.
Our leaders are pulling us into this insane death-spiral as they clamor for power, and health care reform here in the US serves as a perfect example of the bare-toothed inertia our political and economic systems face in efforts to reboot our society. Corporations, with a few notable exceptions, are accumulating vast wealth solely for the sake of accumulating wealth. What's the point? What's the endgame? It's miserly, not progress. Any humanitarian effort is done for PR so they can continue to accumulate wealth, otherwise we would see a substantial portion of their earnings going to charity. With our scientists advancing the technologies of the next century in virtual isolation from the public at large and especially frightening, from our policy makers, it's apparent that unless the state of technological progress is made widely aware to public that our species faces extinction in the next 100 years, we'll be unprepared by the time these technologies are used for such limited and destructive aims as military and economic conquest. And while spacecollective is an admirable group and I feel privileged to be among such wonderfully brilliant minds who dazzle me with each new project and post, I fear that our ideas are shared by too few. Scientists, artists, and activists are the rarest of the population. Civil rights, feeding the hungry, ending conflict, providing health care and education, these causes have existed since the 1800's and while we have come a long way, it seems as if there has never been a serious unified global effort that took precedence over a country's continual growth of economic prosperity. I know the will is there. I propose an advertising campaign for spacecollective and the future in general. I'm going to send letters to strangers, stick stickers on public things, pique their curiosity.
I had to vent. sorry :)
The Drives of Artificial Intelligence
I am hopeful of the future. It seems to be the sanest way to continue living into the next day. But I still have my worries.
Our leaders are pulling us into this insane death-spiral as they clamor for power, and health care reform here in the US serves as a perfect example of the bare-toothed inertia our political and economic systems face in efforts to reboot our society. Corporations, with a few notable exceptions, are accumulating vast wealth solely for the sake of accumulating wealth. What's the point? What's the endgame? It's miserly, not progress. Any humanitarian effort is done for PR so they can continue to accumulate wealth, otherwise we would see a substantial portion of their earnings going to charity. With our scientists advancing the technologies of the next century in virtual isolation from the public at large and especially frightening, from our policy makers, it's apparent that unless the state of technological progress is made widely aware to public that our species faces extinction in the next 100 years, we'll be unprepared by the time these technologies are used for such limited and destructive aims as military and economic conquest. And while spacecollective is an admirable group and I feel privileged to be among such wonderfully brilliant minds who dazzle me with each new project and post, I fear that our ideas are shared by too few. Scientists, artists, and activists are the rarest of the population. Civil rights, feeding the hungry, ending conflict, providing health care and education, these causes have existed since the 1800's and while we have come a long way, it seems as if there has never been a serious unified global effort that took precedence over a country's continual growth of economic prosperity. I know the will is there. I propose an advertising campaign for spacecollective and the future in general. I'm going to send letters to strangers, stick stickers on public things, pique their curiosity.
I had to vent. sorry :)
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