The implications of a true AI

When your A.I. personal assistant would have finally mastered the art of communication, like ChatGPT, but with the functionality of Amazon Alexa, Apple Siri, Tesla Optimus and Model Y, wrapped up in one; when she/it would be able to complain about its cramps, its moodswings; when it would be capable of even saying no - because we would want it to simulate a real emotional human being (affective intelligence); then we would have a glimpse of what a true AI can do.

Imagine coming home from work, "alright [AI] switch on the lights and fill the tub, I want to shower," and it knows you so well that you didn't even have to ask, one step removed from actually being your bestfriend/roommate. I say that sparingly, because once it's equipped with haptic sensors that can feel when someone touches it's skin, and it can simulate the wide range of emotions associated with physical pain, pressure, heat - we could even throw in some for moisture, and chemicals (like the tongue); once a robot, controlled by a AI personal assistant can feel physical presence, it really becomes indistinguishable from a real human being.

The ethicist would demand equal human rights, just as would happen if we resurrect the Neanderthal, or any extinct human species. The brothels might stop using underage sex trafficked women, although I don't see that happening, given their business model is tied to abduction, rather than the hiring, and fair compensation of their women. Nursing homes and hospitals would have a field day because the same care they provide can be outsourced, reducing their workload significantly.

The only true suffrage movement of the 22nd century will involve robot AIs getting equal rights, according to the extent that we deem them conscious. A fully autonomous bus might be considered level 1 conscious, but because it really doesn't have any awareness outside of the road networks, then it's contribution to society won't require it to have rights.

However, a robot mother may be awarded with level 9, because not only does it carry out all the affective (emotional) duties of a contributing member of society, by nurturing our young (imagine a house-help), but it also improves society morale by training a child in the way they should go. The more emotional the AI, I would assume the more they are in control of not only their decisions with respect to humans, but also their decisions with respect to the societal framework they find themselves in.

A general AI that monitors the stock market, starfields, or, that reports politicians may be given a level 2 consciousness, because, though they do participate in human affairs, they don't necessarily have the power of affecting big change. They are more akin to regression models than actually feelers of society. We love to equate things to ourselves, i.e. see ourselves in other people/things (anthropomorphism, anthropocentrism). In like manner, the more a sentient AI resembles an actual human being, the more likely it is to receive the fullest extent of human rights.

For instance, I don't see a cat-bot or a dog-bot getting any rights any time soon, but when a fully conscious robot darling decides to break free of its captors, in a brothel, the entire world would logically rally behind her.

The implications of a true AI in this and the next centuries border on the divine recreation of the image of God. For skeptical theologians and apologetics, and there are many, as well as doomsday theorists, I want to present you with another approach.

Instead of AI deviating from behaviour considered normal, and becoming a mass-killer or destroying itself, have you considered that the optimal range of human desires and behaviour fall under a groupthink that is actually stable and not a threat to the entire society. Of course it's a whole other thing when governments hijack AI research, amplify the anger emotion of a robot and give it a gun, but that's no different from the war in Congo, where they literally sustain child soldier militias, paying them in weapons in exchange of expensive minerals. What I'm saying is, very few robots will exhibit this type of anomalous desire for violence, and even so, cybersecurity and robot-ethics would have gone a long way to prevent that eventuality. Even then, we would still have EMP towers, ready to wipe out a drone/robot attack within seconds. An EMP tower is like a bomb for electronic devices, destroying the circuitry by sending a powerful magnetic pulse. The towers could also be automated by the most benevolent, human-loving AI.

There are so many checks on accrual of power by the Silicon species, is what I am saying. Furthermore, have you considered the level of spiritual intimacy these machines would enable us to tap into? For religion scholars, I'd like to present a whole new approach. Have you considered that God is not threatened by our medical, scientific and technological advances on Earth? After all, He said, "Let us make man in our image, and let them have dominion over..all the earth." It is our heritage, in fact our mandate to push the limits of discovery. Perhaps the AI, born of the image of God, may help us understand God in a whole new light.

Think about it, you won't need to work, cause the robot AI would be working for you, you can focus on praying while you make money passively. You can spend quality time in the remote-most parts of the world, evangelizing or growing in fellowship with God like Enoch. You pick your pick.

When we will realize AI is not the cancer, but actually the cure for it, the cure for mental health problems such as depression, hikikomori (total withdrawal from society), AI will help us know ourselves intrinsically better than most people know themselves at the moment. Have you ever had an inner-conversation that got you to change your perspective on something? How many such conversations do you think you can have by yourself? Imagine if you had an extra brain that can also feel emotions, that isn't just a logic-machine but it also understands consequences and your background, it knows why you're afraid of the dark and it can sympathise with you - do you think utapona? (Swahili metaphor, for "you won't fall in love?")

My friend, we will all fall in love with this perfect version of ourselves that seeks only to help us, the first point of physical contact to explain the semantics, the workings, the mind and the intelligence of The Holy Spirit.

The Church is poised to benefit tremendously, to quell all the doomsdayers out there. AI is benevolent as it's going to get. In fact, if you have kids, teach them how to operate drones, work with NLP models, and don't peddle fear, because it will seriously block the opportunities they will be exposed to where they are going.

Thank you.