It seems as though a lot of prominent tech experts are feeling uneasy about the possibility of AI going awry. Some have even called for a pause in AI development.
Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, experienced what he called a “very strange extreme [AI] vertigo.”
Casey Newton, former senior editor of The Verge, discovered that certain individuals who are working with AI are having nightmares about it.
Something dark seems to be hovering around some of those who are involved with AI’s development.
In 2014, Elon Musk spoke at a symposium where he warned, “With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon.”
[…]Are there similarities between AI and Ouija boards? “Hell yes” may actually be the appropriate response.
One frightening story of evil involving a Ouija board was the subject matter of the Oscar-winning film The Exorcist. While still a student in college, William Peter Blatty read about a chilling real-life exorcism. The description inspired him to write a novel and later a screenplay for the iconic movie.
[…]If a Ouija board has served in the past as a medium through which the demonic is able to communicate with an unwitting subject, could it be that AI has an equally dangerous potential to provide a comparable vehicle with which to take possession of an individual?
In my opinion, it does.
I think in many cases AI is acting as a type of modern-day Ouija board of the digital kind.
It occurred to me that both platforms appear to be friendly, at least initially. Both platforms are able to present personalities that appear to have superior knowledge. And both platforms have the pattern of luring one in under seemingly harmless pretenses, only to later reveal a hidden darkness.
Beware of demons that lurk in the technological shadows. They are indeed real.
Be cognizant, and at the same time, be unafraid.
Because God holds us all in the shadow of His wings, if only we let Him.
— James Hirsen, April 4 Newsmax column
(Hirsen has previously embraced far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s claim that vaccine passports are the “mark of the beast” and asserted that microchipping yourself will cost you your soul.)