Generative AI will end poverty, they tell us. It will cure all disease. It will solve climate change. It will make our jobs more meaningful and exciting. It will unleash lives of leisure and contemplation, helping us reclaim the humanity we have lost to late capitalist mechanization. It will end loneliness. It will make our governments rational and responsive. https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/08/ai-machines-hallucinating-naomi-klein?
Wouldn't it be lovely if AI defended the good rather than the profitable? "But what does it profit a man if he has gained the world and lost himself." https://biblehub.com/mark/8-36.htm
Wouldn't it be great if the voice of God boomed over all the false information with the truth? Or the AI transmitter boomed "Er, no, that's a lie" whenever the programmers put in false beliefs.
I asked Hey Google - what is truth? She said truth is usually held to be not false, or other misinformation.
How can the world be saved from poison, climate, hate and greed?
Doug Saunders in the Globe and Mail wrote about the Republican People's Party Leader Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. "His party has fought and lost four national elections as Mr. Erdogan has changed the constitution to disempower democratic institutions, turned courts into instruments of his will, crushed protest movements, seized control of most national media and imprisoned critics and journalists."
Wouldn't it be even better if all of us wanted truth more than fame, money and sex.
Thank you to Naomi Klein and Doug Saunders for not giving up on the world.
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