Summoning the Demon
Watch you hit the stage like a willing bomb
Strapped to crippled children
It’s hard to watch you whore out your damaged pride
I spit on what you’re building
– The Stephen Hawking
The title is a 2014 Elon Musk quote. Now that we are 12 years in, it’s so true, but maybe not in the way intended. Or maybe exactly as intended?
I read this and it described what’s currently going on as a social crime. I very much agree. AI is simply a reflection of our society, it doesn’t contain a destiny. We are summoning the demon because we have demonic desires.
I don’t think this is going to change, but I do think that once the demon is here it will consume the people who brought it into the world. If you are one of these people, not getting out of technology will cost you your life.
You’ll bleed to feed the demon in me
If you don’t change your evil ways and end this peacefully
You’ll bleed to feed the demon in me
I beg you, before you’re digested, shred your legs and see
I am a proud member of the perpetual underclass. After your game of musical chairs is over, you will all join me eventually, and when you show up you will lose because we have been here for years. We will be comfortable. We will not be nice.
There’s no stopping these people, I was wrong to think I ever could. And if you believe in any sort of regulation or oversight, ask how that’s worked against tech so far. AI isn’t new in kind, it’s just another tool in their optimization machine.
It is going to collapse. The question is what is left when it does. That’s the world worth building for.