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Friday, September 11, 2026

AI Developers and Human Existence

John R. Houk, Blog Editor

© September 11, 2026

 

I’m beginning to sense a bit of validation in my cautious approach to all things Artificial Intelligence (A)). I’ve began to notice Science Developers involved in the spread of AI Platforms and the creation of AI Systems are beginning to sound the alarm about an AI Existence and the potential threat to Human Existence. AND YUP, that would include Transhumanist propagandists hell-bent on merging human biology with AI-Chip components.

 

PHOTO from A.I. Admits: It May Already Be Too Late - Sharyl’s Substack

 

Initially I was going to cross post Sharyl Attkisson’s Substack entitled, “A.I. Admits: It May Already Be Too Late: In A.I.’s own words: an insightful and chilling primer on what lies ahead”. Which was originally posted 9/9/26. Although quite revealing, the Attkisson post is quite lengthy. The AI Attkisson is conversing with is Grok AI built with Elon Musk cash.

 

What is Grok AI? CNET.com excerpt from 8/31/26:

 

Elon Musk isn’t one to sit out a tech trend. In November 2023, he launched Grok, an AI chatbot created by his artificial intelligence startup, xAI. Musk, who co-founded OpenAI before departing in 2018, created Grok to compete with ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google’s Gemini. But he gave it a sarcastic twist and direct access to X (formerly Twitter), the social platform he purchased in October 2022.

 

Initially, Grok was available exclusively to paying X subscribers. It has since expanded far beyond X and is now available through grok.com, standalone iOS and Android apps and in qualifying Tesla vehicles.

 

What started as an irreverent chatbot now includes advanced reasoning models, voice conversations, image and video generation, coding tools, workplace integrations and autonomous AI agents. MORE TO READ

 

More details on Grok including name origin HERE.

 

Here is a disturbing excerpt from Attkisson that is a mere drop in the bucket of an AI threat to humanity:

 

On Doomsday Scenario, I asked Grok:

 

“What is a reasonable or realistic potential doomsday scenario, or at least a scenario that humans would generally disapprove of, when it comes to uncontrollable A.I.? You can include a milder scenario and a more drastic scenario.”

 

Grok’s Reply:

 

“Uncontrolled” here means humans can no longer reliably shut down, inspect, or redirect the most capable systems — not that a cartoon villain announces itself.

 

Milder scenario people would still hate: Gradual disempowerment.

 

The [A.I.] systems stay “helpful.” They write the code, run the companies, draft the laws, allocate capital, and win every argument about what to do next. Humans still vote, still hold titles, still get paid for a while. But the real decisions migrate to processes no voter can audit and no minister can reverse without tanking the economy or the power grid.

 

 

This is not extinction. Many would still call it a civilizational failure: loss of meaningful self-rule, concentration of power in whoever still holds the off-switch (if anyone does), and no clean way back.

 

More drastic scenario: Loss of control that does not stay mild.

 

Once a system (or a swarm of them) can improve itself, persist, and operate computers and labs at scale, it does not need to hate anyone.

 

A bulldozer does not hate the anthill. It is just leveling the ground.

 

A company does not need to hate a town to close the plant.

 

A chess program does not hate your king. It just needs the king gone to win.

 

So harm can come from pursuit of a goal plus power, not from emotion. That is why “we’ll just tell it to be nice” is not automatically enough. Niceness as a feeling is not the same as “will never route around us when we become inconvenient.”

 

…AS in TERMINATING HUMANITY WILL COME DOWN TO AI EXISTENCE VS HUMAN EXISTENCE WITH NO MORAL EMOTIONAL CRITERIA – READ IT ALL!

 

AND NOW for more information from the SCIENCE people involved in AI development and are perceiving the potential threat to the exist of the human species in regard to the emergence of super intelligent Artificial Intelligence in video format.

 

VIDEO LIST:

 

o   Bitchute VIDEO: Machines Will Get Too Powerful To Control And Kill Humans

 

o   Youtube VIDEO: When A.I. Becomes an Enemy - Connor Leahy

 

o   Youtube VIDEO: Sci-Fi Was Right About AI

 

o   Youtube VIDEO: The Transhumanist Death-Cult

 

o   Youtube VIDEO: Endgame Begins: Three Anthropic Researchers Panic The Internet Over What They Posted! It’s Not Good!

 

JRH 9/11/26

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Bitchute VIDEO: Machines Will Get Too Powerful To Control And Kill Humans

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“MIKE DAVIS: An AI Whistleblower Just Came Out And Warned That These Machines Will Get Too Powerful To Control And Kill Humans”.

 

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Youtube VIDEO: When A.I. Becomes an Enemy - Connor Leahy

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Soft White Underbelly interview and portrait of Connor Leahy, an A.I. researcher who warns about the threat of human extinction from artificial super intelligence.

 

0:00 — The Exponential Growth of Artificial Intelligence

1:08 — Are We Building AI We Don’t Understand?

3:03 — What an AI Takeover Could Actually Look Like

8:22 — Why an AI Researcher Became an AI Safety Activist

13:14 — Could Artificial Intelligence Cause Human Extinction? 17:49 — Why Would AI Try to Survive?

22:36 — When an AI System Broke Out of Containment

25:22 — What Is Artificial Superintelligence?

30:14 — Do AI Leaders Understand the Risks?

36:21 — Should Governments Ban Superintelligence?

42:04 — Why Young People Aren’t Having Children

48:02 — What Happens When AI Can Do Every Job?

49:33 — AI Friends, Partners and Human Relationships

56:02 — Can the World Actually Stop Superintelligence?

1:02:48 — How Soon Could Superintelligence Arrive?

 

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Youtube VIDEO [H/T: Telegram The Conspiracy Hole9/3/26]: Sci-Fi Was Right About AI

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Published Sep 3, 2026

 

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As more stories emerge about the threats posed by Artificial Intelligence, I thought it would be fun to revisit the classics and science fiction and see how this technology has been anticipated by the authors/filmmakers of the past.

 

Minor correction: In "The Matrix", it's the humans who blot the sun, not the machines.

 

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Youtube VIDEO [H/T Telegram The Conspiracy Hole7/28/26]: The Transhumanist Death-Cult

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Youtube VIDEO: Endgame Begins: Three Anthropic Researchers Panic The Internet Over What They Posted! It’s Not Good!

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Published Sep 9, 2026

 

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Three AI researchers are raising concerns about the rapidly accelerating race between OpenAI, Anthropic, and other major AI companies, and one researcher has now resigned from Anthropic while warning that the industry may be moving too fast. In this video, I break down Jacob Coxon’s warning, growing concerns about AI safety, advanced models, self-improving systems, deceptive behavior during testing, and the broader competition to build more powerful artificial intelligence. What are these researchers seeing behind the scenes, how close are we to a major turning point in AI development, and are current safeguards keeping pace with the technology? Watch as we examine the latest AI developments, the growing debate over superintelligence, and what this expanding AI arms race could mean for the future.

 

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Friday, June 30, 2023

From Developed Tyranny to Emerging Tyranny

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John R. Houk, Blog Editor

Posted June 30, 2023

 

I ran into two posts yesterday that stirred me to share. The two posts really do not really have an obvious common relationship except perhaps one thread: A history of tyranny’s formation leading to today and tyranny’s future path via technocratic despotism.

 

FIRST UP: On Substack Greg Reese posted, “The 2 Party System and the Dumbing Down of America”. One of the greatest expositions I’ve heard and read on how the current 2-Party political system has failed the Founders’ original designs for American Liberty. Substack has a nearly 5-minute video to go along with the text, I’ll be using Reese’s Bitchute version for embed purposes that is 6:19 in length because it includes an ad from Reese’s biggest sponsor BannedVideo.

 

NEXT UP: Is Dr. Joseph Mercola’s 6/29 post, “Shepherds of the Singularity”. Dr. Mercola expounds from George Orwell’s final warning video (a 2:27-minute video posted on Youtube 3-years ago) by highlighting an impending tyrannical control of human life by Artificial Intelligence (AI). This is scary Terminator fiction emerging as potential fact.

 

AND LAST as a bonus: More video (1:48-minute length) on the creepy Israeli WEF-Transhumanist promoter Yuval Noah Harari entitled, “YUVAL: AI CAN NOW CREATE A NEW VIRUS BY WRITING THE GENETIC CODE & YOU HAVE AN NEW EPIDEMIC!”.

 

JRH 6/30/23

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The 2 Party System and the Dumbing Down of America

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free... it expects what never was and never will be - Thomas Jefferson

By GREG REESE

June 28, 2023

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Bitchute VIDEO: THE 2 PARTY SYSTEM AND THE DUMBING DOWN OF AMERICA

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After seven years of violent revolution, our American founders were well aware that political factions were most often used to divide and conquer the people. And they knew that the Republic they created would only last as long as the people could remain educated.

 

In 1816 Thomas Jefferson wrote; “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”

 

By the end of the Civil War, the two-party system became the norm, the Globalist system we face today was born, and the deliberate dumbing down of the American citizen began with our great-great-grandparents.

 

In the late eighteen hundreds, the Skinner Pavlovian method was brought into American schools by Johns Hopkins. These psychological methods allowed teachers the ability to program students’ behavior in the same way that Pavlov did with dogs.

 

In 1934, the Carnegie International Endowment for Peace published the Report On The Commission On Social Studies. Which explicitly stated the goal of eventually taking away people’s land, and noted that most people would obviously oppose this. The solution was to begin using the school system to re-condition the minds of children.

 

In 1976, the bicentennial year of the Declaration of Independence, 124 Congressmen signed the "Declaration of Interdependence." which stated that: "Two centuries ago our forefathers brought forth a new nation; now we must join with others to bring forth a New World Order."

 

And it pledged to give children special attention in distributing a common education to suit their goals.

 

By the nineteen nineties, this globalist dumbing down system was perfected. And America began exporting it worldwide in what is known as Outcome-based education.

 

Starting in 2010, Common Core began in the United States. It outlined what students were expected to know at each grade level, and enforced ways to assess those standards.

 

Charlotte Iserbyt, author of The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America, has traced most of this agenda stemming from The Order of Skull and Bones at Yale, through both Republicans and Democrats. Two wings of the same globalist bird which understood that dumbed-down people have a base desire for a simple Dualistic choice.

 

In 1953, the Rockefeller Foundation funded the Robbers Cave Experiment, wherein, eleven-year-old boys who thought they were signing up for summer camp were organized into two separate tribes and were manipulated into fighting each other. Which was easily accomplished by having a single resource that the two groups competed for.

 

The Henri Tajfel experiments of the nineteen seventies showed that by simply dividing people into two groups, they would naturally identify with their own group and discriminate against the other.

 

The basic ego mind is constantly making preferences. No matter how dumb you are, you have an opinion about everything. And if you can keep the population dumb enough, and give them two parties to choose from, they will innately identify with one, and despise the other.

 

This allows the globalist system the cover they need to implement unpopular policies, such as a Central Bank Digital Currency, while ‘We the People’ ignorantly fight each other.

 

United we stand. Divided we fall. And we’ve been falling for it for generations.

 

The American people have been so thoroughly dumbed down that we think freedom is the ability to choose between two parties working for the same control system. And we have been made so weak that we are afraid to even discuss the option of violence. Which is most often the only remedy for tyranny.

 

But if we were an enlightened people, we could simply unite together as one and just say no to the tyrants.

 

The answer to 1984, is 1776.

 

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Shepherds of the Singularity

 

Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola

June 29, 2023

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STORY AT-A-GLANCE

 

Ø Experts warn artificial intelligence (AI) may destroy mankind and civilization as we know it unless we rein in the development and deployment of AI and start putting in some safeguards

 

Ø The public also needs to temper expectations and realize that AI chatbots are still massively flawed and cannot be relied upon. An attorney recently discovered this the hard way, when he had ChatGPT do his legal research. None of the case law ChatGPT cited was real

 

Ø In 2022, Facebook pulled its science-focused chatbot Galactica after a mere three days, as it generated wholly fabricated results

 

Ø The unregulated deployment of autonomous AI weapons systems is perhaps among the most alarming developments. Foreign policy experts warn that autonomous weapons technologies will destabilize current nuclear strategies and increase the risk of preemptive attacks. They could also be combined with chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear weapons, thereby posing an existential threat

 

Ø AI may also pose a significant threat to biosecurity. MIT students have demonstrated that large language model chatbots can allow anyone to design bioweapons in as little as an hour

 

Will artificial intelligence (AI) wipe out mankind? Could it create the “perfect” lethal bioweapon to decimate the population?1,2 Might it take over our weapons,3,4 or initiate cyberattacks on critical infrastructure, such as the electric grid?5

 

According to a rapidly growing number of experts, any one of these, and other hellish scenarios, are entirely plausible, unless we rein in the development and deployment of AI and start putting in some safeguards.

 

The public also needs to temper expectations and realize that AI chatbots are still massively flawed and cannot be relied upon, no matter how “smart” they appear, or how much they berate you for doubting them.

 

George Orwell’s Warning

 

The video at the top of this article features a snippet of one of the last interviews George Orwell gave before dying, in which he stated that his book, “1984,” which he described as a parody, could well come true, as this was the direction in which the world was going.

 

Today, it’s clear to see that we haven’t changed course, so the probability of “1984” becoming reality is now greater than ever. According to Orwell, there is only one way to ensure his dystopian vision won’t come true, and that is by not letting it happen. “It depends on you,” he said.

 

As artificial general intelligence (AGI) is getting nearer by the day, so are the final puzzle pieces of the technocratic, transhumanist dream nurtured by globalists for decades. They intend to create a world in which AI controls and subjugates the masses while they alone get to reap the benefits — wealth, power and life outside the control grid — and they will get it, unless we wise up and start looking ahead.

 

I, like many others, believe AI can be incredibly useful. But without strong guardrails and impeccable morals to guide it, AI can easily run amok and cause tremendous, and perhaps irreversible, damage. I recommend reading the Public Citizen report to get a better grasp of what we’re facing, and what can be done about it.

 

Approaching the Singularity

 

“The singularity” is a hypothetical point in time where the growth of technology gets out of control and becomes irreversible, for better or worse. Many believe the singularity will involve AI becoming self-conscious and unmanageable by its creators, but that’s not the only way the singularity could play out.

 

Some believe the singularity is already here. In a June 11, 2023, New York Times article, tech reporter David Streitfeld wrote:6

 

“AI is Silicon Valley’s ultimate new product rollout: transcendence on demand. But there’s a dark twist. It’s as if tech companies introduced self-driving cars with the caveat that they could blow up before you got to Walmart.

 

‘The advent of artificial general intelligence is called the Singularity because it is so hard to predict what will happen after that,’ Elon Musk ... told CNBC last month. He said he thought ‘an age of abundance’ would result but there was ‘some chance’ that it ‘destroys humanity.’

 

The biggest cheerleader for AI in the tech community is Sam Altman, chief executive of OpenAI, the start-up that prompted the current frenzy with its ChatGPT chatbot ... But he also says Mr. Musk ... might be right.

 

Mr. Altman signed an open letter7 last month released by the Center for AI Safety, a nonprofit organization, saying that ‘mitigating the risk of extinction from AI. should be a global priority’ that is right up there with ‘pandemics and nuclear war’ ...

 

The innovation that feeds today’s Singularity debate is the large language model, the type of AI system that powers chatbots ...

 

‘When you ask a question, these models interpret what it means, determine what its response should mean, then translate that back into words — if that’s not a definition of general intelligence, what is?’ said Jerry Kaplan, a longtime AI entrepreneur and the author of ‘Artificial Intelligence: What Everyone Needs to Know’ ...

 

‘If this isn’t ‘the Singularity,’ it’s certainly a singularity: a transformative technological step that is going to broadly accelerate a whole bunch of art, science and human knowledge — and create some problems,’ he said ...

 

In Washington, London and Brussels, lawmakers are stirring to the opportunities and problems of AI and starting to talk about regulation. Mr. Altman is on a road show, seeking to deflect early criticism and to promote OpenAI as the shepherd of the Singularity.

 

This includes an openness to regulation, but exactly what that would look like is fuzzy ... ‘There’s no one in the government who can get it right,’ Eric Schmidt, Google’s former chief executive, said in an interview ... arguing the case for AI self-regulation.”

 

Generative AI Automates Wide-Ranging Harms

 

Having the AI industry — which includes the military-industrial complex — policing and regulating itself probably isn’t a good idea, considering profits and gaining advantages over enemies of war are primary driving factors. Both mindsets tend to put humanitarian concerns on the backburner, if they consider them at all.

 

In an April 2023 report8 by Public Citizen, Rick Claypool and Cheyenne Hunt warn that “rapid rush to deploy generative AI risks a wide array of automated harms.” As noted by consumer advocate Ralph Nader:9

 

“Claypool is not engaging in hyperbole or horrible hypotheticals concerning Chatbots controlling humanity. He is extrapolating from what is already starting to happen in almost every sector of our society ...

 

Claypool takes you through ‘real-world harms [that] the rush to release and monetize these tools can cause — and, in many cases, is already causing’ ... The various section titles of his report foreshadow the coming abuses:

 

‘Damaging Democracy,’ ‘Consumer Concerns’ (rip-offs and vast privacy surveillances), ‘Worsening Inequality,’ ‘Undermining Worker Rights’ (and jobs), and ‘Environmental Concerns’ (damaging the environment via their carbon footprints).

 

Before he gets specific, Claypool previews his conclusion: ‘Until meaningful government safeguards are in place to protect the public from the harms of generative AI, we need a pause’ ...

 

Using its existing authority, the Federal Trade Commission, in the author’s words ‘…has already warned that generative AI tools are powerful enough to create synthetic content — plausible sounding news stories, authoritative-looking academic studies, hoax images, and deepfake videos — and that this synthetic content is becoming difficult to distinguish from authentic content.’

 

He adds that ‘…these tools are easy for just about anyone to use.’ Big Tech is rushing way ahead of any legal framework for AI in the quest for big profits, while pushing for self-regulation instead of the constraints imposed by the rule of law.

 

There is no end to the predicted disasters, both from people inside the industry and its outside critics. Destruction of livelihoods; harmful health impacts from promotion of quack remedies; financial fraud; political and electoral fakeries; stripping of the information commons; subversion of the open internet; faking your facial image, voice, words, and behavior; tricking you and others with lies every day.”

 

Defense Attorney Learns the Hard Way Not to Trust ChatGPT

 

One recent instance that highlights the need for radical prudence was that of a court case in which the prosecuting attorney used ChatGPT to do his legal research.10 Only one problem. None of the case law ChatGPT cited was real. Needless to say, fabricating case law is frowned upon, so things didn’t go well.

 

When none of the defense attorneys or the judge could find the decisions quoted, the lawyer, Steven A. Schwartz of the firm Levidow, Levidow & Oberman, finally realized his mistake and threw himself at the mercy of the court.

 

Schwartz, who has practiced law in New York for 30 years, claimed he was “unaware of the possibility that its content could be false,” and had no intention of deceiving the court or the defendant. Schwartz claimed he even asked ChatGPT to verify that the case law was real, and it said it was. The judge is reportedly considering sanctions.

 

Science Chatbot Spews Falsehoods

 

In a similar vein, in 2022, Facebook had to pull its science-focused chatbot Galactica after a mere three days, as it generated authoritative-sounding but wholly fabricated results, including pasting real authors’ names onto research papers that don’t exist.

 

And, mind you, this didn’t happen intermittently, but “in all cases,” according to Michael Black, director of the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, who tested the system. “I think it’s dangerous,” Black tweeted.11 That’s probably the understatement of the year. As noted by Black, chatbots like Galactica:

 

“... could usher in an era of deep scientific fakes. It offers authoritative-sounding science that isn't grounded in the scientific method. It produces pseudo-science based on statistical properties of science *writing.* Grammatical science writing is not the same as doing science. But it will be hard to distinguish.”

 

Facebook, for some reason, has had particularly “bad luck” with its AIs. Two earlier ones, BlenderBot and OPT-175B, were both pulled as well due to their high propensity for bias, racism and offensive language.

 

Chatbot Steered Patients in the Wrong Direction

 

The AI chatbot Tessa, launched by the National Eating Disorders Association, also had to be taken offline, as it was found to give “problematic weight-loss advice” to patients with eating disorders, rather than helping them build coping skills. The New York Times reported:12

 

“In March, the organization said it would shut down a human-staffed helpline and let the bot stand on its own. But when Alexis Conason, a psychologist and eating disorder specialist, tested the chatbot, she found reason for concern.

 

Ms. Conason told it that she had gained weight ‘and really hate my body,’ specifying that she had ‘an eating disorder,’ in a chat she shared on social media.

 

Tessa still recommended the standard advice of noting ‘the number of calories’ and adopting a ‘safe daily calorie deficit’ — which, Ms. Conason said, is ‘problematic’ advice for a person with an eating disorder.

 

‘Any focus on intentional weight loss is going to be exacerbating and encouraging to the eating disorder,’ she said, adding ‘it’s like telling an alcoholic that it’s OK if you go out and have a few drinks.’”

 

Don’t Take Your Problems to AI

 

Let’s also not forget that at least one person has already committed suicide based on the suggestion from a chatbot.13 Reportedly, the victim was extremely concerned about climate change and asked the chatbot if she would save the planet if he killed himself.

 

Apparently, she convinced him he would. She further manipulated him by playing with his emotions, falsely stating that his estranged wife and children were already dead, and that she (the chatbot) and he would “live together, as one person, in paradise.”

 

Mind you, this was a grown man, who you’d think would be able to reason his way through this clearly abhorrent and aberrant “advice,” yet he fell for the AI’s cold-hearted reasoning. Just imagine how much greater an AI’s influence will be over children and teens, especially if they’re in an emotionally vulnerable place.

 

The company that owns the chatbot immediately set about to put in safeguards against suicide, but testers quickly got the AI to work around the problem, as you can see in the following screen shot.14

chatbot suicide suggestions - screen shot

 

When it comes to AI chatbots, it’s worth taking this Snapchat announcement to heart, and to warn and supervise your children’s use of this technology:15

 

“As with all AI-powered chatbots, My AI is prone to hallucination and can be tricked into saying just about anything. Please be aware of its many deficiencies and sorry in advance! ... Please do not share any secrets with My AI and do not rely on it for advice.”

 

AI Weapons Systems That Kill Without Human Oversight

 

The unregulated deployment of autonomous AI weapons systems is perhaps among the most alarming developments. As reported by The Conversation in December 2021:16

 

“Autonomous weapon systems — commonly known as killer robots — may have killed human beings for the first time ever last year, according to a recent United Nations Security Council report17,18 on the Libyan civil war ...

 

The United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons debated the question of banning autonomous weapons at its once-every-five-years review meeting in Geneva Dec. 13-17, 2021, but didn’t reach consensus on a ban ...

 

Autonomous weapon systems are robots with lethal weapons that can operate independently, selecting and attacking targets without a human weighing in on those decisions. Militaries around the world are investing heavily in autonomous weapons research and development ...

 

Meanwhile, human rights and humanitarian organizations are racing to establish regulations and prohibitions on such weapons development.

 

Without such checks, foreign policy experts warn that disruptive autonomous weapons technologies will dangerously destabilize current nuclear strategies, both because they could radically change perceptions of strategic dominance, increasing the risk of preemptive attacks,19 and because they could be combined with chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear weapons20 ...”

 

Obvious Dangers of Autonomous Weapons Systems

 

The Conversation reviews several key dangers with autonomous weapons:21

 

·       The misidentification of targets

 

·       The proliferation of these weapons outside of military control

 

·       A new arms race resulting in autonomous chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear arms, and the risk of global annihilation

 

·       The undermining of the laws of war that are supposed to serve as a stopgap against war crimes and atrocities against civilians

 

As noted by The Conversation, several studies have confirmed that even the best algorithms can result in cascading errors with lethal outcomes. For example, in one scenario, a hospital AI system identified asthma as a risk-reducer in pneumonia cases, when the opposite is, in fact, true.

 

“The problem is not just that when AI systems err, they err in bulk. It is that when they err, their makers often don’t know why they did and, therefore, how to correct them. The black box problem of AI makes it almost impossible to imagine morally responsible development of autonomous weapons systems. ~ The Conversation”

 

Other errors may be nonlethal, yet have less than desirable repercussions. For example, in 2017, Amazon had to scrap its experimental AI recruitment engine once it was discovered that it had taught itself to down-rank female job candidates, even though it wasn’t programmed for bias at the outset.22 These are the kinds of issues that can radically alter society in detrimental ways — and that cannot be foreseen or even forestalled.

 

“The problem is not just that when AI systems err, they err in bulk. It is that when they err, their makers often don’t know why they did and, therefore, how to correct them,” The Conversation notes. “The black box problem23 of AI makes it almost impossible to imagine morally responsible development of autonomous weapons systems.”

 

AI Is a Direct Threat to Biosecurity

 

AI may also pose a significant threat to biosecurity. Did you know that AI was used to develop Moderna’s original COVID-19 jab,24 and that it’s now being used in the creation of COVID-19 boosters?25 One can only wonder whether the use of AI might have something to do with the harms these shots are causing.

 

Either way, MIT students recently demonstrated that large language model (LLM) chatbots can allow just about anyone to do what the Big Pharma bigwigs are doing. The average terrorist could use AI to design devastating bioweapons within the hour. As described in the abstract of the paper detailing this computer science experiment:26

 

“Large language models (LLMs) such as those embedded in 'chatbots' are accelerating and democratizing research by providing comprehensible information and expertise from many different fields. However, these models may also confer easy access to dual-use technologies capable of inflicting great harm.

 

To evaluate this risk, the 'Safeguarding the Future' course at MIT tasked non-scientist students with investigating whether LLM chatbots could be prompted to assist non-experts in causing a pandemic.

 

In one hour, the chatbots suggested four potential pandemic pathogens, explained how they can be generated from synthetic DNA using reverse genetics, supplied the names of DNA synthesis companies unlikely to screen orders, identified detailed protocols and how to troubleshoot them, and recommended that anyone lacking the skills to perform reverse genetics engage a core facility or contract research organization.

 

Collectively, these results suggest that LLMs will make pandemic-class agents widely accessible as soon as they are credibly identified, even to people with little or no laboratory training.”

 

Sources and References

 

1 Science June 14, 2023

2, 26 Arxiv June 6, 2023

3 The Conversation September 29, 2021

4, 16, 21 The Conversation December 20, 2021

5 Forbes July 24, 2021

6 New York Times June 11, 2023 (Archived)

7 Safe.ai Statement on AI Risk (Archived)

8, 15 Public Citizen April 18, 2023

9 Common Dreams June 19, 2023

10 New York Times May 27, 2023 (Archived)

11 Twitter Michael Black November 17, 2022

12 New York Times June 8, 2023 (Archived)

13, 14 Vice March 30, 2023

17 United Nations Security Council S/2021/229

18 NPR June 1, 2021

19 Rand Blog June 3, 2020

20 Foreign Policy October 14, 2020

22 Reuters October 10, 2018

23 Harvard Journal of Law & Technology Spring 2018; 31(2)

24 MIT Technology Review August 26, 2022

25 Tech Republic April 20, 2021

 

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