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!
Yes.
And thankyou to the other commenters. I've been avoiding AI news, but braved this one. We'll, it's Deena. And the timing. The conversation here, seen and unseen. Language activism and deep ecology and indigenous listening has been my workshop world for nearly 20 years, and I've been working on deepening/opening the work now to match the world need. On my knees, ears to the ground and wind. So I'm trying the newsletter path to try and both reach more people (extend the conversation) and focus and still my own courage. Deep thanks again to everyone here.
Now - yes!
"We need to have a different conversation, with different rhythms, sentences and languages"
Thank you for making this offering!