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See how smart Chat GPT is already? Almost too late to worry about these potential problems -- especially given how slow our institutions are to react.

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Did you watch 2002 A Space Oddessey? If not, the starship’s onbardcomputer HAL decided it was smarter than the astronauts and Hal tried to pull off a mutiny and killed one of the astronauts and was going after the other astronaut and begged, in vain, that the other astronaut not to shut it down. Thtat astronaut then was made contact with by very advanced beings, or maybe it was AIs, and they turned him into something brand new.

Facebook’s Big Brother moderator is an AI. So is YouTube’s, and imagine so is just every social media platform’s Big Brother. Their Big Brothers are programed by humans, so far, we might hope, but the time just might come when, instead of having a Planet of the Apes, we have A Planet of the AIs, which perhaps was foreshadowed in the Terminator and Matrixmovies.

Meanwhile, President Biden and his administration are giving social media marching orders about what is and isn’t okay for people to air out on social media, and Biden is trying to keep journalists out of Gaza, because he doesn’t want Americans, and the world, to know what’s really going on there. Now I’m not picking on Biden, necessarily, since Trump has claimed that he’s Israel’s best friend, so if he was in the White House, I can imagine him trying to control the Gaza narrative, and any social media narrative in America, except T/ruth Social, which already requires, I think, pledge of allegiance to Trump.

I wonder how the AI beings view Biden and Trump, and if they could chose between them (assuming they did not already ), which of the two they would choose, or would they chose someone else, or simply an AI they really like. Kinda reminds of the Matrix movies? Kinda freak me out.

Wonder where God, angels, the Devil and demons might fit into the AI mutiny on Planet Earth? How about the ETs the US Big Brother doesn’t want Americans to know about? God forbid the ETs are fleeing from AIs. Wasn’t that what happened in the Battleship Galactica TV series?

Imagine Jews, Christians and Muslims reach the afterlife, heaven, or wherever they end up, and it’s run by AIs. :-)

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