We've been warned that AI is the new threat to humanity, a threat that could take control over technology and annihilate us all. Does this also refer to human beings?
'A 2023 survey of AI experts found that 36 percent fear that AI development could lead to a nuclear-level catastrophe.' (Tamlyn Hunt, SCI AM) Geoffrey Hinton, one of the top experts in AI, quit his job at Google in order to warn the world about the dangers of AI. It must be serious if he's throwing away millions of dollars in earnings to warn us. But there are other dangers besides AI, namely, our murdeous nature and preponderance to manufacture weapons with which to kill ourselves. And if some power with deadly weapons is on a rampage, who's to stop them?
In my estimation, there's another threat - human robots that you must presuppose are disseminating false information. We don't know 'who' they are and what are their politics, but they are embedded among us. They are human in every sense with lifelike skin, hair, eyeballs and on some, genitals. According to Matthew Urwin, 'when it comes to humanoid robots, there appears to be a direct correlation between how lifelike these machines have become and their ability to creep a real human out.' An example of this humanoid: Ben Shapiro.
Ben Shapiro, born in 1984, is a semi-savant, lawyer, columnist, author, editor and podcaster who maintains a radical conservative Christian viewpoint. He seems to have few shades of gray, no doubt to muddy the waters. He is petulant, belligerent and belittling when one would dare to disagree with him and those who do are frequently labelled uneducated, ignorant or stupid. For instance, he believes in therapy for gays because homosexuality is an abomination to God.
Putting his conservative politics aside for a moment, because everyone is entitled to their own views, Ben Shapiro seems to be something more than his hardened philosophies. This has been demonstrated most recently with his stentorous stance on the war in the Middle East. It's off. Emotionally, he does't seem human. His hollowness has been demonstrated before, but often he lacks the ability to empathize. Instead, he repeats the tired status quo propaganda that Israel uses to justify their perpetual crimes. At every instance Shapiro has defended and justified Israel's illegal actions in the occupied territories. He fails to see the error in Israel's disposal of so many Palestinian bodies simply because they are shielding Hamas terrorists.
Physically, he's a good-looking man. However, he doesn't truly smile, but grimaces; he doesn't laugh outright, but smirks. When he emotes, his eyes maintain the same creepy slits. I truly believe this man is not flesh, but cut from a lifelike, plastic skin pelt, coupled with a computer-generated brain with a point-of-view.
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