Over the past five years, the concept of artificial intelligence has received a lot of hype, to the point where its advantages are taken for granted in the media. The idea that algorithms can “think” has become a widely held myth, a science fiction fantasy come true. The reality is less inspiring.
We constantly hear from globalists at the World Economic Forum and other elite organizations that AI will be the next catalyst. “The Fourth Industrial Revolution” — A technological singularity that will forever change every aspect of society. I keep waiting for the moment when AI will do something significant in advancing human knowledge or making life better. That moment never comes. In fact, the globalists keep moving the goalposts of what AI really will be.
Globalists want AI to become widespread because they know humans are lazy and will use the system as a substitute for individual research. If this happens on a large scale, AI could rewrite every aspect of history, destroy the foundations of science and mathematics, and turn the population into a drooling hive-mind, a buzzing bubble of brain-dead drones consuming every proclamation of an algorithm.
I would like to note that WEF enthusiasts like Yuval Harari talk about AI as if it were the rise of an omnipotent god (as I have noted in my article “Artificial Intelligence: A Secular View of the Digital AntichristHowever, Harari has recently downplayed AI as a sentient intelligence. He argues that it does not need to acquire self-awareness or consciousness to be considered a superhuman or living being. He even suggests that the common image of a Terminator-like AI with individual agency and desires is not a legitimate expectation.
In other words, AI today is just mindless algorithms and therefore not AI. But as every aspect of the world is designed around digital infrastructure and the masses are taught to blindly trust in the “infallibility” of algorithms, they will eventually become the robot gods that globalists covet. That is, AI dominance is only possible if everyone believes that AI is legitimate. Harari essentially acknowledges this agenda in his speech above.
For the average person, the appeal of AI is its fantastical promise of freedom from worries and responsibilities. Like any narcissist, the global elite love to fake the future and buy the public’s sympathy now with false promises of rewards that will never come.
Yes, algorithms are now helping laypeople do things they couldn’t do before, like building websites, editing essays, cheating on college exams, creating poor quality artwork and video content, and more. There are few useful applications. For example, the claim that AI is “revolutionizing” medical diagnosis and treatment is a stretch. The United States, the country with the greatest access to AI tools, is also suffering from a declining life expectancy. We know this isn’t COVID because the virus has an average survival rate of 99.8%. One would think that if AI is so powerful in its ability to identify and treat diseases, the average American should live longer.
These digital tools are not living up to expectations
There is no evidence that AI brings benefits on a broader societal scale. At best, it seems to be effective at displacing jobs from web developers and McDonald's drive-thru workers. The globalist idea that AI will create a robotic renaissance of art, music, literature, and scientific discovery is complete nonsense. AI has proven to be little more than a tool of mundane convenience, which is in fact why it is so dangerous.
I believe the WEF has changed its mind about AI because it has not lived up to the delusional hopes the elites had in the beginning. They were waiting for the software to become real and give them insight into how the universe works, but they are realizing that this is never going to happen. Instead, the elites are shifting their focus to the merging of humans and the digital world. They want to invent the need for AI because human reliance on technology serves a centralizing purpose.
But what will this look like in practice? The population will become increasingly stupid while AI becomes more integral to society.
For example, it is widely accepted at this point that a university education is not an indicator of intelligence or skill. Millions of graduates entering the workforce today demonstrate a disturbing level of incompetence. This is in part due to less competent and ideologically biased university educators and worsening average curricula. But we also need to consider the number of kids who are breezing through school using ChatGPT and other cheat boxes.
They don't have to learn anything. Algorithms and cell phone cameras do it all for them. This trend is disturbing because humans tend to choose the easiest path in every aspect of survival. Most people stopped learning how to grow food because industrial agriculture did it for them. They stopped learning how to hunt because we have slaughterhouses and refrigerated trucks. Many of today's xennials can't cook for themselves because they can get takeout delivered to their door at any time. They rarely talk on the phone or create physical communities because texting and social media are the medium for human interaction.
Sure, everything has become “easier,” but that doesn't mean everything has become better.
What I fear most is a coming future where humans no longer care about thinking. AI may be seen as the ultimate repository of human knowledge, a giant library or digital brain that does all the searching and thinking for us. If AI “knows everything,” why does it need to learn? Except this is a lie.
AI doesn't know everything. It only knows what its programmers want it to know. It only gives you information that its programmers want you to know. The globalists understand this and can get a taste of the power they will have when AI reaches its highest level as an educational platform. They see AI as a way to trick people into giving up on personal growth and individual thought.
Think of it this way: if the whole world started looking to an AI for answers to every question, everyone in the world would get the exact same answers and reach the exact same conclusions — all the AI would have to do is actively censor any information that contradicts the official narrative.
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We got a taste of this Orwellian situation during the COVID-19 pandemic, when big tech companies like Google used algorithms to bury any data that proved COVID-19 wasn't the threat government officials said it was. For at least three years, you couldn't go on YouTube and search for alternative information about COVID-19 or vaccines. Algorithms forced anyone to sift through a long list of establishment sources spreading blatant lies about mask-wearing, social distancing, COVID-19 mortality, and vaccine safety.
Those in power don't even have to directly censor or remove information they don't like: all they have to do is let algorithms determine the search results and bury the truth on the 10,000th page no one sees.
How does this impact the general public? Imagine an AI programmed to dictate scientific debate. What if the AI said that anthropogenic climate change is an undeniable reality and “scientifically established” without providing any of the copious evidence to the contrary? No one would look at the real data because the AI would make it impossible to find it. Everyone would assume that the AI would tell them everything they needed to know about the subject, but it would get worse than that.
A few months ago, Google's AI system “Gemini” Programmed to enforce DEI The AI asked users to create historical images, and the algorithm made everyone black or brown, especially women. Despite historical accuracy, depictions of white men were suspiciously rare. That meant endless images of black and brown Scottish Highlanders, black American Founding Fathers, a female Catholic Pope, Asian knights from Medieval Europe, and, hilariously, black German Nazis from World War II.
AI developers often claim that once an AI is created, they have no real control over what it does or how it grows. The Gemini incident proves this to be a lie. AI can certainly be controlled, or at least shaped, by coding it to promote whatever propaganda its programmers want to push. There is no such thing as an autonomous AI. There is always an agenda.
In summary, globalists want AI to become widespread because they know people are lazy and will use the system as a substitute for individual research. If this happens on a large scale, AI could rewrite every aspect of history, destroy the foundations of science and mathematics, and turn the population into a drooling hive-mind, a buzzing mass of brain-dead drones that consume every algorithmic pronouncement as if it were sacred.
Yuval Harari is right on this point. AI doesn't need to be sentient or control an army of killer robots to cause great harm to humanity. All it needs to do is become so useful that we stop caring about thinking for ourselves. Like the “great and powerful” Wizard of Oz hiding behind a digital curtain, thinking you're getting your knowledge from a Wizard, but in reality you're being controlled by a globalist quack drug salesman.
Editor's note: This article originally appeared on Orto Market.
