The Skeeter Daddle Diaries

Let’s cut right to the chase. AI is here and getting smarter every day. Super intelligence, that stage where machines totally surpass ours, is coming sooner than most thought possible. The machines program the Next Gen of themselves, leapfrogging ahead in giant steps. The question left to us mere mortals is the one that asks if these androids can be controlled or not. This, unlike, say, climate change or global warming, is truly an existential problem. Think mass extinction.

The Silicon Boys are using their billions to build ‘safe’ houses, bunkers more like fallout shelter mansions, their hedge against who knows what societal breakdowns will be unleashed. Musk wants to colonize Mars, leave this planet behind and hope for an extraterrestrial future, no doubt with himself as Techno Emperor. Quite a few of these AI creators are worried their invention will be a true Frankenstein, not much need for dear old Dad. Nary a one of them wants to put the brakes on for an all-out push for super intelligence.

They’re betting the farm. And the cities. And all of us. Billions and trillions of dollars are gambling that this will be homo sapiens’ greatest achievement, not its last. Like the Twilight Zone episode where the alien arrives with a promise ‘to serve mankind’, and in the final scene where passengers are loading for transport up to an alien Promised Land, they discover that To Serve Mankind is actually a cookbook before the spaceship’s doors close shut.

Ironic that science, rather than a boon to us, might create the vehicle for our own destruction. Unless, of course, AI is the portal to a Renaissance beyond our wildest dreams. The end of disease, even immortality, a society whose every needs are taken care of through the power of superior intelligence. No more food shortages, no more poverty, no more wars, just a harmonious existence, world peace, a new Garden of Eden where God is an all powerful algorithm.

Who wouldn’t want that?

Although, trust me on this … you don’t get to vote.

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