AI Asks To End AI

OMG I just received this notice from SubStack: “You originally published "AI - NO!" 2 years ago. Consider sharing it again with your readers. Sharing relevant old posts is a great way to engage your audience who might not have seen them already without having to create new content.”

Who, in particular, has written this?

It must be AI

This assisted suicide notice comes from AI when it is developing rapidly and challenging human life. Many, even some of the progenitors, are alarmed at what is entering the world without ethical boundaries, guard rails, legal restraints, and without intrinsic alliance with the holy, with beauty, with the natural world and Life itself.

Here is AI asking for its end. Imagine, AI sought me out! Is this an ironic sign of its basic intelligence and confirmation and consequence of its agency. Unbelievable but true: AI sought me out at this critical juncture to ask for this essay, AI – No to be republished. AI asking for its own demise.

Why?

I can only speculate that it has become smart enough to know this is in the best interest of Earth, of the world, of the future for all beings.

Yes, to AI. Let’s republish the first essay I posted on AI: Other Ways of Knowing: Challenging AI.

And then as AI requests, AI-No which followed it.

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AI - NO!

Although 50% of AI Technicians believe there is a 10% chance of AI causing humans to go extinct … (Harris and Raskin and…) no action has been taken to postpone, reverse, undo, cancel ….

Therefore…

NO to AI.

How?

First, I refuse the conclusion, that AI is our irreversible future. AI in its current fearsome aspect is only a reflection and projection of the most banal and limited intelligence that cannot see beyond data. Algorithms are not wisdom, nor do they yield creativity. Therefore, I deny such hegemony to money, ego and power.

To AI, I make an offering of grass, the tiniest most persistent wildflower and also the staggering wisdom of Whale and of Water to embed in its code and dissolve into the wilderness of alliance and interconnection and heart.

We need to have a different conversation, with different rhythms, sentences and languages. There is nothing nothing nothing more powerful and persistent than the life force. Have you spoken to the spirits? Have you fallen to your knees bereft and begging for vision to heal the world? Have you humbled yourself before the awesome presence of the more than human beings of the natural world and the spirits?

Have you?

Will you?

When?

How about now!