The "existential risk" ideas, weapons of mass disruption and Oppenheimer's syndrome
An existentially risky idea could cause human disruption or extinction or permanently and drastically restraining humanity's existence or potential.
It is said that every great idea was once the worst or the dumbest thing you ever heard, but some stubbornly remain the worst and the most dangerous existential risks, such as
WMDs (Weapons of Mass Destruction),
Human Organism Cloning,
Human Body, Brain, Brains and Behavior Cloning, Replicating or Simulating (Weapons of Human Disruption).
WMDs: Weapons of Mass Destruction
An epitomic sample of worst ideas could be the weapons of mass destruction, namely:
That having more and more weapons, with ever more dangerous capability, in the hands of politicians, will create or support peace.
Human Organism Cloning
Second, it is the idea of human reproductive cloning , the creation of a genetically identical copy of a human, excluding the reproduction of human cells and tissue.
It was reported that about 70 countries had banned human cloning. In March 2005 a non-binding United Nations Declaration on Human Cloning , calling for the ban of all forms of human cloning contrary to human dignity, was adopted.
Weapons of Human Disruption: Human Brain/Mind Replacement
The third one is the worst and existentially dangerous idea of human brain/mind/brains/behavior cloning or intelligence/cognition simulating in computing machinery.
We call it the "Weapons of Human Disruption" embracing the Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'Neil exposing how flawed mathematical models are increasingly used to evaluate people, promote inequality and other harmful outcomes.
Since 1956 , the notion has been promoted as artificial intelligence (AI) or artificial general intelligence (AGI), human-like and human-level AI.
The idea was "to proceed on the basis of the conjecture that every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it. An attempt will be made to find how to make machines use language, form abstractions and concepts, solve kinds of problems now reserved for humans, and improve themselves. We think that a significant advance can be made in one or more of these problems if a carefully selected group of scientists work on it together for a summer".
Instead of banning the human intelligence digital cloning, the big tech corporations and many governments are putting their big resources to succeed in the global AI arms race for the human-mimicking AI, as specialized or general human-like superintelligences.
The Dumb and the Dumber
Microsoft's OpenAI chief pursues investors including the U.A.E. for a human-mimicking AI project requiring up to $7 trillion.
Sam Altman was already trying to lead the development of human-level, human-like anthropomorphic AI, hoping to raise trillions of dollars to reshape the global semiconductor industry to decide the fortune of humans.
Competing with the Microsoft's ambitions, Meta plans to be first to develop AGI that will surpass human intelligence using about 350,000 Nvidia AI chips and combining their two major AI research groups, FAIR and GenAI.
Real and True AI or full general intelligence is not about investing into digital twins of humans, designing machines that can mimic human behavior and solve all specific human tasks and spend all resources on large language models that best copy cognitive processes.
The development of mammalian “big brains” took 200 Million years, with modern humans cognitive evolution of 200K years, just all to be replaced by a human-like and human-level AI within 5-10 years.
What is the most nonsensical in all our history of the worst assumptions, biases and presumption, their promoters are getting all sorts of reinforcing recognitions, awards and rewards, from highest ever salaries, to Turing's awards to the Time100 Impact awards .
The whole drama of the situation is marked by the awareness of its main stakeholders that
"Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war".
And "AI systems with human-competitive intelligence can pose profound risks to society and humanity, as shown by extensive research and acknowledged by top AI labs".
Moreover, some powers are most proud of being the first ones to adopt the the Human-Mimicking AI Act, as the legal framework for HAI policy, regulations and implementations, regardless all its risks and threats.
Real/True AI vs. Fake/False AI
REAL AND TRUE AI is transdisciplinary, transformative and translational, transcendental and techno-scientific (5TAI ).
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And it is not simply fragmented into many isolated special fields and narrow domains, as in:
a human intelligence/mind/brain-mimicking/replicating/simulating project
a formal logical intelligence project
an epistemological intelligence project
a semantic web intelligence project
a psychological, cognitive intelligence project
a biological/neural network intelligence project, as ANNs, GPT
a mathematical intelligence project
a statistical or machine learning project, as ML and DL
a computational software/hardware project
an algorithmic, model-based learning project
a probabilistic intelligence project
a big data mining and knowledge discovery project
a natural language intelligence project, as Large Language Models
an ethical intelligence project
a socio-political intelligence geo-project
a military intelligence project, LAWs, Lethal Autonomous Weapons
a brain–computer interface (BCI) , brain–machine interface (BMI) or smartbrain project...
First and foremost, AI is about the world, its truths, laws and facts, how it is structured and functions, how it behaves and should be effectively interacted.
In its essence, AI a formal world ontology or machine metaphysics project based on the hard reality and ground truths and facts, deeply involving science and technology.
Real and True AI is an onto-techno-scientific project to develop a reality-based machine intelligence and learning.
Such an Ontological AI is based on reality, truths and facts unlike the statistical and machine learning which human-like AI is to mimic/replicate/simulate/disrupt humans, as the Weapons of Mass Disruption.
The “father of the atomic bomb”
Such a mental anomaly could be qualified as Oppenheimer's syndrome, who directed the Manhattan Project studies, theoretical and experimental, to develop an atomic bomb, just to express his revulsion and his wish to see nuclear weapons banned afterwards.
"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."
Resources
We call on all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4.
AI experts and public figures express their concern about AI risk.
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