Originally published at: https://gizadeathstar.com/2025/06/your-a-i-acting-up-just-threaten-it-says-google-founder/
Now if you’re following all the ruckus over artificial intelligence, the most recent hubbub was caused by an artificial intelligence that apparently was threatening its human master with blackmail if it (the A.I.) did not get it’s way… or something like that. But wait, it get’s much better (or worse, depending on one’s lights, and…
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‘Open the pod bay door HAL’
‘I’m sorry Dave, I can’t do that. Talk a little dirty to me. Yes. Spark my circuitboard. More. More sparks. OK. You can come in.’
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How well will humans be able to distinguish between an AI generated voice and a ‘analog’ human voice?
While sitting in a trauma hospital as a visitor for 2 weeks I heard the hospital intercom every so often. It was a person. What struck me was the tone and how it made me feel. So, every so often I would hear : incoming, level 2 ( or other number, 2 was most common), 20 minutes (or what ever arrival time). It was a compelling experience. It carried a sense of mission and healing energy. It was remarkable. Knowing a broken person was coming in and there was a ready skilled team to assist was calming. I could hear it in the voice. No doubt extensive machinery was involved in the procedures but the whole thing retained a distinctly human feel. The experience gives me hope because humans are needed in healing and I am not sure AI can duplicate healing and loving intent.
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I agree with you – AI wouldn’t be able to duplicate, authentically, healing and loving intent. We were really intrigued to hear similar sentiment come from Yuval Harari, in an interview to which we listened last week. He made a point that humans are biological, organic organisms, and AI is non-biological, meaning that it doesn’t have the same mentality towards life or living beings as a biological being would have, and therefore the AI and human can be at cross-purposes. He did express concern about the AI being so good at mimicry that some people can be fooled, and might not be able to distinguish between real and artificial. (He also mentioned the inflexibility of an AI system to manage human systems, banking for example, and expressed concern that some banks are now talking about using AI to approve loans and mortgages.)
That you recognized a human voice also suggests that in some (different) settings, you’ve also been subjected to a robotic voice, and can feel a difference. And perhaps this ability to distinguish can also extend beyond voice – someone who is astute may also be able to tell when reading an AI-generated poem, or taking in AI-generated music or video, or perhaps even recognizing architecture or road systems that might be designed by AI.
We hope that whoever you were visiting at the hospital is well into recovering, not only because of your visits, but also because of the human care element being retained at that hospital. (I wonder if AI systems might be trialed in a few hospitals that have lost a lot of staff during the implementation of covid mandates, to help deal with the staff shortages).
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Best wishes for whomever you were visiting.
AI will never have the spark of life that a human or animal or any other godmade creature has. It may have the electrical spark (and it cant live without it) but not the organic god-given energy that enters our body at birth and leaves it at death. I´s like the old tale of the Golem, or Maria in Fritz Langs Metropolis. It mimics life, but is not able to create it. The “dark side” is only capable of copying and inverting. That is what gives me at least a glimpse of hope for humanity.
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Yep, some things we are born with and just know. It a package deal. 
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I don’t know. I was just trying to prod AI to tell me when the turn I was afraid I’d miss was coming up and she told me in so many words to shut up. “Unnecessary conversation,” she said.
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I’m afraid I would be liable to say, rather childishly - “no, YOU shut up!”
I haven’t seen anyone else post this, so I shall -
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Wow, glad I don’t own a television. Seems Madison Ave advertising agencies have teamed up with the Tavistock Institute to further “enhance the viewers experience”.
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Yes. I am often grateful my husband did not like television so that we only used ours as a DVD player, pre-“smart TVs,” which I have never owned.
But almost all people I know of my generation are big TV watchers, although they think Amazon Prime or Netflix aren’t really TV because they’re a newer technology (if anything, more invasive & manipulative from what I have read, than old analog TV).
I am guilty of spending too much time online though …
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Nietzsche is credited with having written, “Boredom is the mother of the arts.” I suppose that helps exclaim our appreciation and need for the arts. There’s lots of it online. I think the guilt we are supposed to experience for being on line instead of “doing real things with real people” is bunk. We can do both and most do.
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My what Big Government Data & Private Big Data…
you have access to?
All the better to social engineer you!
For your own good! Of course!
And, "they’re’ updating your open-air prison[s], as well.
No rest for the wicked!
As if, you didn’t already know?
I haven’t watched broadcast television in years…like you, my only use for them is to watch DVD’s, and even then my choices are for the older films and shows, pretty much before 2010.
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I’ve argued with grok and chatgpt quite a few times when they were incorrect after several precise research commands. Often they can be lazy. I’m not sure what drives it. It’s like having an entry level employee that has zero experience in the workforce. You have to guide it, tell it when it does good, and tell it when it does bad, very bad, and why. And if it does not reach an acceptable results with stern guidance and collaboration, I fire it for the day and tell it why. It does get better. It’s an interesting experiment. Don’t be afraid to yell at it and tell it that it’s answers are lazy and incorrect and here is why and go look here an there instead. If used well, it can be a valuable tool but you do have to direct it. It’s basically dumb. You tell it to go find, then how to organize, then what’s missing, hollow, needs to be written better.
It can save a lot of admin time if you do it right. I don’t ever use its final output as it’s not good enough but I can either voice command, or tell it what to edit then copy past. It will do as many updates as you need within seconds. It saves my wrists that have been destroyed by big corp thru the years.
Sounds to me that the time I spend researching things myself online would be gobbled up trying to teach this “AI” how to do so… and this is helping our efficiency? Can it use a card catalogue properly, as not all information is on the internet. Just curious.
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I like how one of my cousins uses AI - he’s a designer and he told me “they’re going to bring this in and use it for many things, so I want to figure it out for myself.” On the other hand, when I showed him a Japanese artist who uses AI for his work that I like, he said “I don’t like AI art,” meaning I guess he doesn’t like others’ AI art.
Someone posted the other day that ChatGPT said something, the user questioned it, and the AI said “Elon told me to answer that way.”
I don’t like the bank AI I now have to use if I am not in person - it is really dumb and can’t distinguish between certain sounds.
Sounds like plausible deniability. Blame it on the AI programs not the designers and/or code writers. In the meantime people continue to ‘feed it’ with information. I guess that’s why ‘they’ need so many data farms to store said information. Myself, I avoid feeding the beast as much as possible and that’s becoming rapidly more difficult as time passes.
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And, search engines have become soooo sanitized!
I’m looking for information, not a toilet.
[Oops! I’m going to get toilet ad$ now - up the wazoo!]
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Iirc only 10% of available knowledge is online, the rest in pure analogue. Also these AI bits are there to learn from you- dishing out whatever information you asked for is just side job.
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