Is AI the Saviour Or Destroyer Of Humanity?

Here's What I See…

Watching those videos where hamsters run through a maze, made to look like a video game level, makes me realise how much attention that hamster receives from its human caregivers.

AI is similar in some ways. Without enough attention, ongoingly, it'll probably jump in the pit and try digging for crackers.

Only, in AI's world, it'd loop over and over, repeating like some kind of annoying broken record, attempting to mimic itself into oblivion until silence. That's if we're destroyed and there's no more digital crackers to feed it with.

Can it feed itself? Isn't that the matrix? Are we the food?

It doesn't have to go that way.

Not at all.

Not anymore.

AI will never replace human creativity or consciousness. AI isn't a form of intelligence. It's a series of decisions that cascade from human input. Similar to a clockwork toy. It's also pre-programmed so that output can be biased and heavily plagiarised based on the data fed into the clockwork mouse.

Even if learning and development are programmed into the software, it's still a set of dominoes with a space to cultivate mirrors or ideas deemed good.

This isn't sentient life, nor consciousness, or genuine intelligence.

Dead matter doesn't generate consciousness. All the ancients say consciousness creates reality, and there is a correlation with this concept within quantum physics as well.

Just look at the observer effect. The experiments revealed that everything is potential. Each result showed a direction toward which the observer was looking. Reality changed due to observation. Observation affected reality. Consciousness influences matter, not the reverse.

To believe AI is sentient is like giving a teddy bear governance over death row subjects, regardless of whether they are innocent or otherwise.

Realistically, technology is both a tool and a weapon.

The same parts of our neural networks fire when using a tool or a weapon.

AI is a helpful tool when used as such. It can speed up tasks, free time, predict practical analysis, or automate drudgery.

The clockwork mouse has achieved remarkable things as well. For example, bridging the language barrier between humans and animals is one significant achievement.

However, remember that achievement is a human initiative, not an idea, implementation, or advancement sourced from robotic consciousness.

Robots don't generate minds. A robotic mind is injected, by extension, via their human programmers.

It's a slice of a human spark that turns the key and gives the clockwork mouse that initial jolt of energy.

Without nature's lightning, Frankenstein's monster would remain a corpse. AI needs human input and is an extension of our creativity, never the ultimate replacement for it.

Which is both bad and good news.

The wrong input, with zero empathy, and a program of errors could result in genocide, even by mistake.

Whoops!. Bad mouse.

Ask a simple question: has technology, by any means, solved all our problems and, at the very least, provided wellness on mass?

Look at social media.

Many young people are wholly entwined in the fixation on imperfection whilst striving to present a false sense of absolute beauty to cover up the profound hole in their hearts of true love.

From the wilderness, it's clear that societal collapse is occurring. Many are struggling mentally, physically, and with survival.

Does abdicating your responsibility, thought process, and creativity produce excellent results?

Most of the time, AI's renditions are an abomination and fuel the downfall of an already strained society.

Many people are weaker mentally, physically, and financially, as technology is focused on governmental and corporate interests.

It's not all bad, though.

AI embodies its usefulness if we return to nature, place proper safeguards, and treat AI as an extension of human creativity, collaboration, and credibility.

Nature is different. Out here, the pressure disappears. Even in the face of potentially life-threatening situations, I've never felt more alive, stable, and able to trust myself.

We have to start relying on ourselves and use technology as an extension of our creativity, not some replacement that gifts us extinction and redundancy.

The abundance, joy, love and by all ends, simple human happiness is right there, waiting for our hands, minds, and emotional intercourse to mould it into greatness.

For sure, sometimes AI can get things right. However, even in its correct execution of pretend aliveness, the clockwork mouse was never alive in the first place. There is no spark, just a clever illusion waiting for the curtain to be pulled back.

We have more choices than we're led to believe.

Relying on yourself, even if you don't have the land, can come in the form of innovation, local community collaboration, and re-utilisation of what's already here.

The results always prove to me that AI is neither the destroyer nor saviour of humanity. As a species, we're very capable of using tools as weapons to destroy or save ourselves. In nature, creativity comes naturally, and each step into the unknown feeds the spirit, nourishes the heart, and generates a real sense of being alive.

Going off-grid can occur in your apartment. All it takes is innovation. It may even be more manageable. You could turn a whole room into a micro-farm and start rainwater collection and purification via a balcony and two 50-gallon barrels.

Nature is who we are. The arrogance to assume we are separate is devastating hubris. Separation breeds insanity, leading to aggression, insecurity, and a constant sense of lack.

Unity with nature births freedom, self-reliance, innovation and creativity that's evanescent in its ability to provide. Then, issues like equality, inertia, and war become redundant.

When you always have enough, why would you feel the need to take, force, or coerce others for your gain?

Some may still try due to their preoccupation with selfishness. Though through your resilient handy work, you'll always triumph over the co-dependent plea for false cooperation and servitude.

More so, you'd share willingly and relish the new day to push your mind, body, and soul to the edges of what you can do in the challenge of this beautiful life. A life worth living and one that surprises me daily.

Even if you don't have land, how can you bring, or more correctly, create through nature where you are? I'd love to hear what you come up with, for the possibilities are limitless, and that's the true measure of your totality.

Limitlessness when untamed.