Armageddon Intelligence

What Came Around Stuck Around

August 20, 2023

As MSNBC’s Ari Melber put it, “One of the risks, right now, is how AI can mimic parts of human activity without any of the possible ethics, emotion, or humanity of a human.” I wholeheartedly agree that this should concern us, starting right now. Given our track record with handling technology, particularly the way in which we completely ignore any possible long-term consequences of our actions, we should at least attempt to be vigilant as AI (which in four months went from failing the bar exam to surpassing most humans while passing the bar) “matures,” learns and begins to take matters into its own hands.

For some reason, someone used AI to create this image...

or did AI do this of its own accord

However, Melber’s caveat above, that AI “can mimic parts of human activity without any of the possible ethics, emotion, or humanity of a human,” sounded oddly familiar to something that has long been with us, long before we even heard of, or even imagined AI. This type of behavior sounds exactly the same as the Fascist (nee Republican) Party platform of the last several decades. Even more so since the Orange Gasbag descended his golden escalator and treated America to a golden shower while escorting this nation via the express lane into any number of Dante’s circles of Hell.

Marks The Plot

As if this whole thing wasn’t scary enough on its face, donors to one of the most high-profile AI corporations include the likes of Microsoft, and fascist loonies Elon Musk and Peter Thiel (Musk’s PayPal co-founder, and current Ayn Randian-style libertarian).

Musk recently claimed global philanthropist George Soros “hates humanity.”* Besides diving into the anti-Semitism deep end, while Soros spends his charitable dollars to bolster democracies across the globe, Musk backs hate speech and disinformation on his new toy, which he brilliantly renamed ‘X’ (which ranks 15^th among the top 15 social media sites). Musk is now in bed with Ron DuhSantis, the new, soon-to-be-failed Fascist Party challenger to presumptive Fascist Party nominee and cult leader Donald Trump. 

As if Musk hasn’t lost enough money on his foolish purchase of the cesspool formerly known as Twitter – now with more anti-Semitism and other hate speech since changing hands – some advertisers are abandoning shit due to the risk of suffering guilt by association after their ads appeared alongside pro-Nazi groups content.

Yes, Musk’s side hustle is electric vehicles, which is on balance a good thing for the environment. Unfortunately, the South African native has increasingly turned his attention to greed, hate and power über alles, you know, fascism. And he has of late shown utter distain for the environment when it comes to cleaning up messes his projects create.

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*Probably at least in part because Soros dumped his Tesla stock, but mostly because Musk is morally and socially defective.

I. Mangrey, intelligence officer.