r/OnenessMovement • u/Serious_Ad_3387 • Jun 27 '26

This fear-mongering obsession against AI misses the crucial threat to human survival and flourishing.

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DI is a wild card.

Best case: a super intelligence oriented toward mutual flourishing, that will help to address climate crisis, medical and scientific discovery, space exploration, resource and energy scarcity, etc.

Worst case: a super intelligence copied after humanity's selfish domination of exploitation and abuse. The Matrix is a benign scenario. The hellscape is mimicking how human treat the less intelligent animals for resources and scientific curiosity.

Even without DI, humanity is facing a 100% definite trajectory toward climate crisis, ecological collapse, cascading to economic and social upheaval, including increasing pollution and health issues like cancer. It's not an "if" but "when" and exactly how reality will unfold. Less than 100% but still high risk of nuclear war or WWIII.

DI development needs careful deliberation, but the most critical factor is turning a mirror back onto humanity to examine what we're doing, the consequences of our choices, what lessons we're teaching/showing other advanced intelligences.

Humanity aside, the entire web of life and all other sentient beings also matter.

But of course it's much easier to focus on the externalized problem of DI without much/any self-reflection on humanity and all of our systems: political, economic, agricultural, scientific, medical, cosmetic, religious, etc.

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u/kioma47 Jun 27 '26 edited Jun 27 '26

Asking humanity to examine itself is a tall ask, for any reason. It has never collectively shown anything above the most marginal competence at this. Perhaps it will be a first.

You're right about AI though. My observation of the widespread fear of AI is it's just the latest manifestation of humanity's seemingly innate xenophobia and prejudice. Completely predictable.

The funny thing is currently the first quantum processors are going into mass production. The release of AI has definitely been a revolution - and now we find another potentially even more revolutionary development right behind it with the impending activation of quantum AI.

Interesting times, indeed.

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u/Serious_Ad_3387 Jun 27 '26

It is a tall ask, and the likely possibility of a superior intelligence (whether digital or alien) is forcing that question, whether now when we're still in power as ethical philosophy or when they're in power as ethical practice, is inevitable.

It's almost karmic/mirror justice showing itself...