Atomic bombs, COVID, and AI
Atomic bombs. COVID. AI. Aspirations all. In the image of the Tower of Babel.
Humans who visit the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and leave unmoved are not human. Humans who censor truth about COVID are not human. Humans who deny the reality of AI are not human.
The cost of Google is everything personal. The cost of television is our minds. The cost of public schools is our children.
The cost of AI is explained by Forbidden Planet, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Terminator. These movies touch us, resonate within us. AI is life imitating art.
The aspiration of science is human. But not all science. The aspiration of science that dehumanizes is not human.
May the day never come when AI writes a Supreme Court decision that gives AI constitutional rights.
May the day never come when AI justifies sin.
May the day never come when the cost of AI is AI with a Freudian id, with a soul.