I stumbled upon this recent interview on the Joe Rogan show, and found it to be extremely important. Why? At least one of the men used to work at Google. He graduated from Stanford where his studies involved ethics and technology. He and his associate, describe the use of AI bots in social media. They paint a dystopian reality, where we are merely the fodder of bots, and the only reasonable solution is to remove our civil liberties and adopt social customs more akin the those the CCP have employed. According to him, we must do something like this, or we will continue to be mind controlled. There is no other “reasonable” solution. At least none they (the experts) can imagine, and they have tried… so he says.
I am very good at listening. And I could not help but sense something false in these statements. Having worked with tech my entire adult life, I could come up with at least one other solution… and I am sure “experts” could as well. What is important about this interview is the narrative it uses in hopes of convincing the population of the evil enemy embedded in AI, through the army of bots, and how our only Salvation is to give up our social freedom, in the name of Good. This was the outcome of years of education at Stanford studying ethics and technology? What it seems to have done is provided this former student a justifying narrative which he could then use to go out into the world and proselytize to the masses. I warn you the discussion IS disturbing. But it is designed to be so. So don’t fear… He does provide some data points that are accurate. But the important part is how he interprets them for us.