I cannot hide that I was inspired by the article on Freethinkers International. My original idea was meant to show how the super-rich obedient AI is molding our mental processes so those who rule us are securely conducting their immoral business. However, the great idea is that the world of robots and AI also means the end of freethinking.
How the super-rich molded our freethinking before AI
The media show you what preselected parties to vote for (those that are connected to the rich), what ideologies are good and bad, how to perceive our world (I mean by primitive ways of evolution which equipped us with the love of story-telling, social events, etc., meanwhile why media should inform in data, statistics, and mathematics).
Also, anyone with an opinion that doesn’t suit the establishment is excluded from the mainstream media. This is molding (kind of the media live in disguise, but not the end of freethinking).
The formal educational system makes sure you won’t question the politicians and their puppet masters. Imagine a subject where they teach the pupils or students how to get rid of all forms of clientelism). The universities will teach you only those ideologies that are friendly to the establishment.
The universities also ingrain you in what philosophical school you will learn (analytic vs. continental school).
How popular authors without connections cannot be successful
Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, the late Christopher Hitchens, and Daniel Dennett. They were highly ambitious, intelligent, and talented. Yet, what many people suspect is (I am writing it in a way so nobody can sue me) that their connections to the super-rich were the main reason for their success.
Why? Imagine a highly successful author who will stand up against the establishment, and start ranting ideas that are highly inconvenient.
Some examples? Sensible eugenics, free press that explores in-depth the background political connections, out-of-mind inequality, human rights abuses (especially those economic that the great US is overlooking or massive worldwide prison torture (the majority or the world’s population live in countries where torture is prevalent)), mass surveillance (their protest against it) or reasonable immigration crisis solution.
AI as a tool of the super-rich and the end of freethinking
Technology should serve people by moral means. It shouldn’t be used as something detrimental. Yet, this doesn’t happen (see atomic bombs).
In 2024, new artificial intelligence and robots are emerging as a new society where humans are expendable.
But yes, we are using the AI. However, while the AI is learning its ways, someone programmed it to do something in a manner that serves well to the super-rich.
For example, I detest the political thinking of both Israeli and Palestinian people. Violence is something insupportable. They should live in peace and abundance (gained from the peace).
So I suggested to the AI robot that Israeli politicians are acting like Hitler on some issues. It denied me anything I wanted and it has told me it wouldn’t do something morally wrong. But the AI was morally wrong.
It same goes with conspiracy theories, unheard parts of the establishment, secret services (have you ever wondered why a German chancellor changes his opinions so many times – he is wiretapped by one unnamed secret service), historical bias (how history is interpreted) and last but not least – our beloved super-rich puppet masters (they don’t exist).
If you use AI, you have definitely met with its ever-occurring style: “Of course, this is partly right. But we must also emphasize this and that.”
I actually don’t think it molds your thinking, it basically tells you what to think, write, and do.
And as our reliance on AI and robots becomes greater and greater, the dangers of the end of freethinking get closer and closer.
I wanted to be assured by the AI that the US analytic philosophy renaissance was motivated by the business groups. And it told me it was true. But in another session: “Oh, no, the super-rich have no power.”
Conclusion
When it matches or surpasses human intelligence, we can definitely benefit from AI (or we are benefiting right now) but we may end up in a mental communism (not to mention AI’s conformist views).
Free inquiry, freedom of speaking and freethinking are key elements of societal development and I really don’t want to ever see AI-based philosophers guided by the perverse absence of free thoughts.
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