Who Needs Skynet?
The Human Terminators
Jay Gould, a 19th-century robber baron, allegedly said he could hire one half of the working class to kill the other half. That claim popped into my head as I read Caitlin Johnstone’s recent piece about autonomous killing robots being tested by Israel in Gaza. Turns out that modern-day Goulds may not need to hire anyone to kill those considered to be rebellious. Just send in robot drones and robot dogs and be done with them.
It made me think of movies like the Terminator franchise where robots “wake up” and turn on their human masters. Basically, AI becomes conscious and decides humans have to go. The likelier scenario is what’s beginning to happen now: the “intelligent” humans are eagerly and gladly using robots to kill other humans, all the while speaking of this as an “advance” in technology.
In the Terminator movies, a complex AI program known as Skynet gains sentience and decides to strike against and eliminate all humans. Who needs Skynet when we humans are all too eager to destroy ourselves, whether with killer robots or more old fashioned ways?
I agree. I also don't understand why AI would attack humans. This has become an assumption. I don't get it. Do you? The corporate media's premise that AI COULD become "sentient" and then attack humans, when AI is programmed by humans? And I always have this visual in my head of a human just throwing a hammer down on the computer.
By jove, it's almost like they want us to ignore the existing motes in our ruling elites' eyes in favor of not-yet-existing specks in computers...
I don't know much about computers, so I'm wondering if the information we put in computers (wikipedia etc.) is false, does that affect how the computer works? And if too much false information is fed into humans how do they function? This morning I was straightening my book shelves and came across the section on 9/11 - a series of books pointing out that that whole event is reported falsely, starting out with MSM refusal to point out the fact that steel, especially top grade steel does not melt at the temperatures created by jet fuel - in fact burning jet fuel doesn't even come close to melting steel! This is a known fact and was occasionally prominent in articles written 20 plus years ago. A lot of people wondered just how the two (plus the mysterious 3rd) buildings happened to fall down so cleanly. Some of us actually believed 9/11 was a plotted government hoax - enough of us so that the MSM ended up playing its games and got the majority of citizens to look at other things and forget about the actual facts of 9/11. Reports by NYC firemen and policemen hearing bombs go off were pooh poohed and then smothered and we went on to other things - most notably a war with Iraq.
As I looked at the books on my shelf that pointed out all this and much more, I realized that I hadn't thought about all the lies we'd been told about 9/11 for a very long time; there have been so many since then to think about - like WMD in Iraq and further lies about Libya, Syria and of course Afghanistan and so on. What do all these lies do to the human mind? In this country we are now caught in a system that pours out lies as history and we believe them. In the rest of the world, the people who live in the areas affected by our lies have to deal with the reality of the vicious and unnecessary bad effects of our lies.
How do we undo the huge tangled knot of lies we are functioning under? Hate, sickness, war and starvation are the products of this , and more is to come. The consortiums of the wealthy who actually run the world have a lot more in mind. I hear they are planning to take over agriculture using robots and manufactured food. In England farmers are protesting some attempts at this. I wonder which is worse - humans who have no idea of the truth or robots programmed to run the earth based on lies. ?