Have truths become; lying collectives, of consensus?
Is speech becoming more and more uniform?
Has you curiosity, become a target of AI?
Is AI targeting Human Thought?
The Danger Is Not That AI Will Awaken.
The Danger Is That…
We Will Fall Asleep.
… why yes, yes we are.
Indeed we are. What’s more, we were warned.
From the article linked above:
Prediction is not thought.
Artificial intelligence is, by design, incapable of rebellion. . . . It will never overthrow the worldview of its programmers.
Over time, the collective vocabulary shrinks to whatever the algorithm finds probable. The unpredictable — the poetic, the original, the divine — is quietly edited out of existence.
From 1949 (George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, part 1, chapter 5):
“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. . . . Every year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller. . . . The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect. Newspeak is Ingsoc and Ingsoc is Newspeak,” he added with a sort of mystical satisfaction. “Has it ever occurred to you, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now?”
Yep use of words and eliminating the thought God is key…
We have had many warnings through time on this matter, for example,
“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”
(Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future (1886), Chapter IV. Apophthegms and Interludes, §146] /Chapter_IV).