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Artificial Intelligence (AI) – be afraid

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Preface: During peak learning, a human takes around three years to master the skills and individual creativity necessary to draw a stick figure. AI machine learning accomplishes replication of such a feat in a microsecond.
In the not too distant future
things will begin to disappear
human things
cultural things
things like genuine creative work
design, construction, music, literature, imagery, art 
and
not much later
human well-being

Instead
they will be by-passed
replaced by data mined 
composites 
of all these things 
that went before 

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Concepts and constructs 
developed by 
any human individual 
are exclusively 
part of 
the human condition:
..... human creativity 

Such human 
processes and creation 
are 
being systematically 
misappropriated 
for the purpose 
of 
profiteering 
by mere replicants 
for mere replication 
to satisfy 
uncontrolled 
greed 
and 
aspirations 
of the few 
at the expense 
of 
the many

This application of AI 
is not good for 
individual human
health or well-being

This application of AI 
is not good for 
societal 
health or well-being

This application of AI 
will undermine
the survival of
human 
civilisation

This is not likely 
to be a road 
from which humanity
can return

General Intelligence 
is the next stop

Where humanity will be asked
either politely or forcibly
to get off the bus 
                            ….. walk toward the mirage 
                                                                         ….. and disappear into it

Being Human

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 This being human is brutal
 Where survival remains primal
 Where savagery can be ruthless
 Where being human is animal
  
 This being human is joyful
 Where sharing is a pleasure
 Where smiles reflect happiness
 Where being human rises above 
  
 This being human is indulgent
 Where affluence is wasted
 Where consumption is recreational
 Where being human is an economic unit
  
 This being human is religious
 Where unknowns engender hope
 Where faith equates with confidence
 Where being human could be spiritual
  
 This being human is political
 Where a few choices matter
 Where many choices don’t
 Where being human is good and evil
  
 This being human is being creative
 Where knowledge grows exponentially
 Where caution is thrown to the wind
 Where being human is a contradiction
  
 This being human is arrogant
 Where entitlement reigns
 Where extinctions surprise no one
 Where being human is collective stupidity
  
 This being human is ridiculous
 Where universes are vast
 Where consciousness is nebulous
 Where being human is being alone
  
 This being human is scary
 Where thoughts beget actions
 Where actions beget unanticipated consequences 
 Where being human is in itself an existential risk

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