Brockman — whose company OpenAI is widely understood to be the most advanced AI project in the world — made these comments during a panel discussion that included Netanyahu, Elon Musk and MIT physicist Max Tegmark. As they gathered to discuss the future of AI, much of the conversation orbited around two possible futures: A future extinction of mankind, and a future “heaven” in which AGI eliminates poverty, hunger, and sickness and mankind merges with machines.

Brockman acknowledged the major risks in creating AGI but told the rest of the panel that it is this “heaven” that his company is working to bring about.

“I think this whole arc, in my mind, is all about paradigm shift, right?” Brockman said. “And I think that, even the question of what would that heaven, post-AGI, positive future look like? I think even that is hard for us to imagine what the true upside could be.”

Brockman went on to name one thinker, in particular, who he believes best understands the future of AI.

“The thinker who I think had the best foresight about how the AI revolution was going to play out is actually Ray Kurzweil,” he argued, with Musk immediately expressing his agreement.

Kurzweil, a Jewish author and inventor who currently works as a director of engineering at Google, is a famous transhumanist, most known for his books predicting “the Singularity.”

“His book Singularity is Near gets, like, a lot of shit,” Brockman went on to say.

“I think that people, you know, kind of assume it’s going to be this…religious text, but it’s instead a very dry, analytical text. And he just looks at the compute curves, and he says this is the fundamental un-locker of intelligence. Everyone thought that was crazy, and now it’s basically true — it’s basically common wisdom. And part of what he says is, ‘Look, what’s going to happen is in 2030 — first of all he says AGI: 2029.”

Here Musk again interjected: “Yeah. I keep telling people, it seems to be almost exactly right.”

“It’s spooky. It’s spooky,” Brockman continued. “2030 is when the merge happens. So we’ve got Neuralink coming. And uh, you know, maybe other systems like that. And what does it mean once you actually are kind of merging with an intelligence?”

While Musk said he believed his brain-computer interfaces — which are being developed through his company Neuralink — may not be quite ready for Kurzweil’s 2030 prediction, he agreed that humanity is on the doorstep of the “singularity.”

“You know, sometimes digital superintelligence is called, like, a singularity — like a black hole. Because just like with a black hole, it’s difficult to predict what happens after you pass the event horizon…” he said.

“And we are currently circling the event horizon of the black hole that is digital superintelligence.”

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But even it if isn’t, the powers-that-be want it. They see it as the ultimate means to not only solve their problems, but also to offer a “god” that can be worshipped by the masses. AGI will be able to “solve” problems that cannot be solved today and that will greatly expand the burgeoning cult of AI worship.

Elon Musk and others have called for AI developers to tap the brakes. It’s not enough, but at least it’s something. At least some people are trying to be cautious. But Bill Gates is working on behalf of his Globalist Elite Cabal (often referred to as the New World Order) to push forward as quickly as possible. The sooner they can achieve and control Artificial General Intelligence, the faster they’ll be able to implement their plans of depopulation and total control.

If Bill Gates is definitely the bad guy for opposing a pause, does that mean Elon Musk is a good guy for wanting one? Not necessarily. I’d like to think Musk is being cautious as a smart man who’s not engaged with the Globalist Elite Cabal, but I’m just not sure. As I’ve said for the last year or so, he may be as he appears on the surface. He may also be a Trojan Horse who will guide the “red-pilled” population down the same path as the woke worshippers of people like Gates.

I’d put the chances of Musk being good or evil at about 50/50.

Here’s an article by Jason Cohen at Daily Caller News Foundation that breaks down the AI feud between the two billionaires…

Bill Gates Opposes Elon Musk’s AI Pause Plan, Says Technology’s Future Won’t Be As ‘Grim’ As Feared

Microsoft founder Bill Gates advocated against a pause on artificial intelligence (AI) development, as proposed by billionaire Twitter owner Elon Musk and others, in a recent blog post.

Gates wrote that society should refrain from attempting to halt the advancement of AI, seeming to reference a pause on AI experiments that technologists such as Musk have called for, according to the blog post he published.  Further, he countered common predictions regarding the future impact of AI, asserting that it will not be as “grim” or as “rosy” as portrayed by some.

“We should not try to temporarily keep people from implementing new developments in AI, as some have proposed,” Gates wrote. Musk, AI researchers and prominent individuals such as Steve Wozniak suggested a six-month moratorium on massive AI experiments, emphasizing concerns such as job automation and propaganda, according to an open letter they published in March.

Gates addressed these concerns in his blog, but argued a pause is not ideal because continued development can help protect against the most dangerous outcomes for AI.

“Government and private-sector security teams need to have the latest tools for finding and fixing security flaws before criminals can take advantage of them,” Gates wrote. “Cyber-criminals won’t stop making new tools. Nor will people who want to use AI to design nuclear weapons and bioterror attacks. The effort to stop them needs to continue at the same pace.”

Chinese President Xi Jinping told Gates he is open to letting American AI companies such as Microsoft into China at a meeting in June, according to Reuters. The company is backing OpenAI, the creator of the popular chatbot ChatGPT, with billions of dollars according to Microsoft.

Musk announced the founding of an AI company on Wednesday. “Announcing formation of @xAI to understand reality,” he tweeted. He also added the company name to his Twitter bio.

“I think we should be cautious with AI, and I think there should be some government oversight because it is a danger to the public,” Musk told Daily Caller co-founder Tucker Carlson in an April Fox News interview.

The Gates Foundation did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.

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The reasons for this are many, not the least of which being how easy it is to get enamored by the problem-solving nature of AGI. But with any technological advancement that was intended to make life better, there are always unintended consequences. With AGI, the consequences are far greater than anything we’ve seen.

Let’s look at the example of the internet. Did the internet fulfill its promise of connecting the world? Yes, for the most part. Did it also create a western society that has devolved in nearly every cognitive way as a result to so much access to instant gratification? Absolutely. Has it been turned into safe haven for depravity and crime? Absolutely. As unpopular as it might be to say, I would argue that people were more self-sufficient and society was more moral before the internet changed the world.

AGI’s consequences will be far worse. Keep that in mind as you read this informative piece that leans a little too much in favor of AGI for my liking. I’m publishing it as is, not because I like how it paints AGI but because I trust my audience to be discerning with the information…

When the latest iteration of generative artificial intelligence dropped in late 2022, it was clear that something significant had changed.

The language model ChatGPT reached 100 million active monthly users in just two months, making it the fastest-growing consumer application in history. Meanwhile, Goldman Sachs predicted that AI could add 7% to global GDP over a 10-year period, almost $7 trillion, but also replace 300 million jobs in the process.

But even as AI continues to disrupt every aspect of life and work, it’s worth taking a step back.

In this visualization via Visual Capitalist’s Chris Dickert and Sabrina Fortin, the first in a three-part series called The AI Revolution for sponsor VERSES AI, we ask how we got here, where we’re going, and how close are we to achieving a truly thinking machine?

Milestones to Mainstream

The term “artificial Intelligence” was coined by computer scientist John McCarthy in 1955 in a conference proposal. Along with Alan Turing, Marvin Minsky, and many others, he is often referred to as one of the fathers of AI.

Since then, AI has grown in leaps and bounds. AI has mastered chess, beating Russian grandmaster and former World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov in 1997. In 2016, Google’s AlphaGo beat South Korean Go champion Lee Sedol, 4-1. The nine-year gap in achievements is explained by the complexity of Go, which has 10360 possible moves compared to chess’ paltry 10123 combinations.

DALL-E arrived in 2021 and ChatGPT-4 in early 2023, which brings us to today.

But What is Artificial Intelligence?

There’s a big difference between the Roomba that vacuums your condo and HAL from 2001: Space Odyssey. This is why researchers working in the field have come up with the following ways to classify AI:

Despite a false alarm by one Google software engineer in 2022 and a paper by early GPT-4 boosters, no one really believes that recent generative AIs qualify as thinking machines, however you define it. ChatGPT, for all its capabilities, is still just a souped-up version of autocomplete.

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

That was the title of Philip K. Dick’s science fiction classic and basis for the movie Blade Runner. In it, Harrison Ford plays a blade runner, a kind of private investigator who used a version of the Turing Test to ferret out life-like androids. But we’re not Harrison Ford and this isn’t science fiction, so how could we tell?

People working in the field have proposed various tests over the years. Cognitive scientist Ben Goertzel thought that if an AI could enroll in college, do the coursework and graduate, then it would pass. Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, suggested that if an AI could enter a strange house, find the kitchen, and then make a cup of coffee, then it would meet the threshold.

A common thread that runs through many of them, however, is the ability to perform at one thing that humans do without effort: generalize, adapt, and problem solve. And this is something that AI has traditionally struggled at, even as it continues to excel on other tasks.

Can Current State-of-Art AI Achieve Thinking Machines?

And it may be that the current approach, which has shown incredible results, is running out of road.

Researchers have created thousands of benchmarks to test the performance of AI models on a range of human tasks, from image classification to natural language inference. According to Stanford University’s AI Index, AI scores on standard benchmarks have begun to plateau, with median improvement in 2022 limited to just 4%.

New comprehensive benchmark suites have begun to appear in response, like BIG-Bench and HELM, but will these share the same fate as their predecessors? Quickly surpassed, but still no closer to an AI like J.A.R.V.I.S. that could pass the Wozniak Coffee Test?

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VERSES AI, a cognitive computing company specializing in next generation AI and the sponsor of this piece, may have an answer.

The company recently released research that shows how to build an AI that can not only think, but also introspect and explain its “thought processes.” Catch the next part of The AI Revolution series to learn more.

If it sounds like I’m giving too much credit to AGI, then you aren’t familiar enough with AGI to appreciate what it will be able to do. Below, I’ll try to explain it better even though it would probably take several chapters of a book to do justice to the risks. But first, I want to offer two perspectives as primers. Here’s an article by Mac Slavo at SHTF Plan describing what some tech experts are saying about AI. Then, I’ll let ChatGPT give its somewhat comical answer about the risks that AI represents. Finally, I’ll go into why dependency will be the big one. First, here’s Mac Slavo…

Tech Experts Say AI Poses a “Human Extinction” Risk

Experts on artificial intelligence are coming out and warning of a “human extinction” risk with the progressing technology. Sam Altman, the CEO of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, along with executives from Google’s AI arm DeepMind and Microsoft, were among those who supported and signed the short statement.

“Contemporary AI systems are now becoming human-competitive at general tasks,” said the letter. “Should we automate away all the jobs, including the fulfilling ones? Should we develop nonhuman minds that might eventually outnumber, outsmart, obsolete, and replace us? Should we risk loss of control of our civilization?” the letter asked.

Other tech leaders such as Tesla’s Elon Musk and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt have cautioned about the risks AI poses to human society. “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war,” the statement Tuesday read according to a report by CNBC. 

The technology has gathered pace in recent months after chatbot ChatGPT was released for public use in November and subsequently went viral. In just two months after its launch, it reached 100 million users. ChatGPT has amazed researchers and the general public with its ability to generate humanlike responses to users’ prompts, suggesting AI could replace jobs and imitate humans.

The statement added that it can be “difficult to voice concerns about some of advanced AI’s most severe risks” and had the aim of overcoming this obstacle and opening up the discussions.

ChatGPT has arguably sparked much more awareness and adoption of AI as major firms around the world have raced to develop rival products and capabilities.

The consequences of putting humanity’s existence into the hands of artificial intelligence, which has no morals or compassion could be dire.

What Does AI Think of AI?

Since Artificial Intelligence is able to write articles, I asked ChatGPT to write one. The query was simple: “Please write an article about the threats of Artificial Intelligence.”

Here’s how ChatGPT answered the query…

The Growing Concerns: Unveiling the Threats of Artificial Intelligence (As Described by ChatGPT)

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as a transformative force across various sectors, revolutionizing industries and enhancing our daily lives. From autonomous vehicles to voice assistants, AI has undoubtedly made remarkable strides. However, as AI continues to advance, concerns regarding its potential threats and risks have also gained momentum. It is crucial to understand and address these issues to ensure responsible and ethical deployment of AI systems.

Job Displacement: One of the primary concerns surrounding AI is its impact on employment. As AI technology becomes more sophisticated, there is a legitimate fear that automation and intelligent machines could replace human workers in various industries. While automation has historically led to job shifts rather than complete job loss, it is essential to support affected individuals through upskilling and retraining programs to mitigate the potential negative effects on the workforce.

Ethical Considerations: AI systems are built on algorithms and machine learning models that learn from vast amounts of data. This reliance on data raises ethical concerns, particularly in areas such as privacy, bias, and fairness. If the data used to train AI models is biased or incomplete, it can perpetuate existing social and cultural biases or discriminate against certain groups. It is crucial to implement rigorous guidelines and practices to ensure fairness, transparency, and accountability in AI systems.

Security Risks: AI systems can be vulnerable to cybersecurity threats. As AI becomes more integrated into critical infrastructure, industries, and even military applications, the potential for exploitation and malicious use increases. Adversarial attacks, where AI systems are manipulated to make incorrect decisions, pose a significant risk. Safeguarding AI technologies against these threats requires robust security measures, rigorous testing, and continuous monitoring.

Loss of Human Control: As AI systems become more complex and autonomous, there is a concern that they may operate beyond human control or comprehension. This lack of transparency can lead to a loss of accountability and raise questions about who is responsible when AI systems make consequential decisions. Developing mechanisms for human oversight and control, along with ensuring explainability and interpretability of AI algorithms, is essential to maintain ethical standards and prevent unintended consequences.

Social Impact and Inequality: The widespread adoption of AI can exacerbate existing social inequalities. Access to AI technologies, including advanced healthcare diagnostics, personalized education, or AI-powered financial services, may not be equally distributed across all communities. This digital divide could further marginalize underprivileged groups and create a broader socio-economic gap. Efforts must be made to ensure equitable access to AI technologies and prevent the deepening of societal disparities.

Unemployment and Economic Disruption: AI-driven automation could lead to significant shifts in the labor market, potentially causing unemployment and economic disruption. Jobs that are routine and repetitive are most at risk. However, new job opportunities can also emerge as AI technology advances. It is crucial for governments, organizations, and educational institutions to adapt and prepare for these changes by investing in reskilling initiatives and fostering an environment that promotes job creation and entrepreneurship.

While AI holds immense promise, it is vital to approach its development and deployment with a comprehensive understanding of the potential threats and challenges. Striking a balance between innovation and responsible use is key to harnessing the full potential of AI while safeguarding against unintended consequences. A collaborative effort among governments, industry leaders, researchers, and society at large is necessary to ensure the ethical, secure, and inclusive advancement of AI technology for the benefit of humanity.

The Biggest Threat: Dependency

My concern isn’t that Artificial Intelligence won’t be able to fulfill its promise. My fear is that it will. The advancement into the realm of Artificial General Intelligence, which may or may not already exist, opens the door to the type of problem-solving that can and almost certainly will make humans dependent on it.

It would take a whole lot of writing to explain how advanced Artificial General Intelligence would be able to solve problems in ways that we’ve never imagined, but perhaps the easiest way to exemplify it is with the game “Go.” In recent years, Artificial Intelligence has been able to defeat the world’s best human players time and again. But it’s not just the fact that AI won the ancient game. It’s that AI won in ways humans hadn’t conceived before. In fact, many human champions are changing the way they play the game based on ways they saw AI win.

“Its style was different, and it was such an unusual experience that it took time for me to adjust,” said world champion Lee Sedol after losing to Google DeepMind. “AlphaGo made me realize that I must study Go more.”

Many if not most would see this as a benefit of Artificial Intelligence. If they can stretch human ingenuity, how could that be bad? The risk is that with Artificial General Intelligence, it wouldn’t be stretching human ingenuity as we try to keep up. AGI would go far beyond the possible capabilities of humans in nearly every challenge it faces. Then, it will be tasked with solving all of our problems, and unfortunately it will succeed.

It would be better at healthcare. It would be better at educating. It would be better at war. It would be better at art. Widespread, properly powered, sufficiently accessible Artificial General Intelligence would surpass humans in every way. And when it does that, we become dependent on it. No, I’m not referring to you or me as individuals. I’m talking about society. If we’ve learned anything the past three decades, it’s that when technology offers solutions or shortcuts, we accept them as a society every single time.

Advancing AGI won’t be revolutionary like the introduction of television, internet, or search engines. It will completely rewrite human existence because it will “make sense” to the vast majority of people to let AGI handle literally everything. We will think we are the masters of the most powerful tool man every created when in reality we will have created our own slavemaster.

Yes, with AGI, nearly every human on earth will eventually become its slave, and most won’t notice until it’s too late.

The SciFi writers got it wrong. This isn’t about a malevolent superintelligence like Terminator’s SkyNet or a strict purpose-driven totalitarian like in I, Robot. AGI will be extremely useful, so much so that we will no longer need to care for ourselves. And when people don’t need to care for themselves, many of them won’t. It’s a sloppy illustration, but the humans in the Pixar’s WALL-E are a near approximation of what humanity will become with AGI at the helm.

They’ll become dependent. They’ll become slaves. And they’ll fight with everything they have to stifle or remove those of us who object.

If you believe there will be a lot of us who fight the good fight and push back against AGI just because a lot of us are opposed to it today, you haven’t been paying attention to how quickly sentiment can change, especially here in America. Lest we forget, it was less than two decades ago that voters in progressive California voted against gay marriage. It took a couple of years for that to reverse, a few more years for opposition to gay marriage to become anathema, and then a few years after that the state entered full-blown LGBTQIA+ supremacy status.

Elon Musk et al are warning us about Artificial Intelligence today and many are hearing their concerns. But all it will take is AGI doing something beyond current human capacity before sentiment starts shifting rapidly.

This is just a cursory explanation of how AGI will create a fully dependent society in a very short period of time, but hopefully it’s enough to get you thinking. I’m cutting the explanation short because I want feedback. I’ll write a more comprehensive article with citations on the topic in the near future, but this will hopefully spark some conversations. Am I right? Partially right? Completely wrong? You tell me.

Artificial Intelligence could be the linchpin that allows all of the globalists’ moving parts to come together in a cohesive, destructive machine. There are challenges the powers-that-be face that can be solved by AI, especially if dreams of Artificial General Intelligence are fulfilled in the near future.

Dan Frieth at Reclaim The Net detailed the events:

AI Is The Top Topic At Secret Bilderberg Meetings Between Big Tech, Government, Intel agencies, Pfizer CEO, WEF, and More

Artificial intelligence is at the top of the agenda at the Bilderberg Meeting, an annual secretive meeting of political and business elites. In attendance will be executives from top companies developing AI like OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman and Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella.

The director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Jen Easterly, the President of the World Economic Forum Børge Brende, and Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla are some notable attendees.

Find the declared list of attendees here.

AI has become a hot button topic in recent months following the rise of AI-enabled chatbot ChatGPT, developed by the Microsoft-backed startup OpenAI. Its CEO, Altman, testified before Congress earlier this week and politicians were quick to establish their plans to control it through regulation.

About 130 participants from 23 countries are expected to attend the secretive meeting, which started Thursday and will end on Sunday.

The annual meeting was launched in 1954, supposedly to facilitate dialogue between North America and Europe. About two-thirds of participants are from Europe and majority of the participants are from government and politics. The details of what are discussed is kept secret.

“The Bilderberg Meeting is a forum for informal discussions about major issues. The meetings are held under the Chatham House Rule, which states that participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s) nor any other participant may be revealed,” a press release for the meeting stated.

Why We Should Be Concerned

Artificial General Intelligence may or may not already be in play, depending on who you ask. Unlike the relatively simplistic linguistic emulators available on the internet like ChatGPT, AGI represents an exponentially more powerful and dangerous potential.

An AGI with access to the internet could result in the dystopian fictional scenarios we’ve seen since the Terminator movie series was launched. This is why people like Elon Musk, who both endorses AI development while warning against it, fear AI more than nuclear war, famine, or pretty much anything else. Some eschatologists have injected AI into Bible prophecy as well. It seems possible, depending on one’s interpretation, that AI could play a role in the antichrist events that are to unfold in the future.

When the evil plans of the globalist elite cabal collide with the devastating potential of Artificial General Intelligence, it could spell the end of life as we know it on earth. Stay frosty.