Leo D.M.J. Aurini - The Metaphysical Dangers of Artificial Intelligence [Requested Video]

00:00:01.000 The Metaphysical Problem with Artificial Intelligence

00:00:05.100 This is a requested video. It comes from Jeff, and he wanted me to expand upon my worries,

00:00:15.020 the problems I see with artificial intelligence, especially over the next few decades.

00:00:20.760 And see, I think the problem is only partially realized by most science fiction,

00:00:32.380 by something like The Matrix, where the robots decide to take over,

00:00:37.660 but the robots are, foundationally, they are human.

00:00:41.460 They have minds. They are ensouled creatures.

00:00:46.960 They are like us, even if they are very unlike us.

00:00:52.920 And I'd like to present something a bit more existentially terrifying.

00:00:59.280 And to do that, we need to talk about the metaphysics of the soul,

00:01:04.420 of what it means to perceive reality.

00:01:10.540 So I'd like to start off with a question that's going to seem completely unrelated at first.

00:01:16.080 How do we know, how can you and I say for certain that we are not Chris Chan?

00:01:30.840 Not literally Chris Chan, of course, but how can we say for certain that we are not as deluded as Chris Chan is?

00:01:40.800 I was recently reading through the CWC wiki,

00:01:46.820 which itself is a study in Be Careful When You Battle Monsters Lest You Become That Which You Battle.

00:01:54.720 But they had an interesting observation.

00:01:57.680 That in one of his comics, Chris Chan was making fun of obese people.

00:02:02.900 And they started speculating, based upon that and a few other things,

00:02:08.040 that Chris actually has a great deal of difficulty visually perceiving reality.

00:02:15.160 They suspect that when he was a teenager,

00:02:18.960 Chris Chan spent a very long time studying himself in the mirror,

00:02:22.400 a very detailed study of his physical form,

00:02:25.120 to start drawing that character.

00:02:28.540 And so in his mind's eye, he is still the skinny teenager,

00:02:33.680 and not the walking abomination, which he has, in fact, become.

00:02:41.300 Now this isn't an issue of astigmatism, or...

00:02:47.140 This is not bad eyesight.

00:02:48.980 Look at his environment.

00:02:51.900 Look at all of the toys he has everywhere.

00:02:55.020 Clearly he is able to see properly.

00:02:57.380 He is able to order his environment.

00:02:59.300 But he cannot process the visual information correctly.

00:03:06.560 He actually thinks, he actually believes,

00:03:09.800 that his artwork is good.

00:03:13.360 He thinks he is accurately depicting himself.

00:03:15.860 That he is skinny and fit.

00:03:18.980 There is a monstrous gulf

00:03:25.240 between the reality which Chris Chan perceives

00:03:31.120 and the reality that the rest of us perceive.

00:03:38.620 Which then forces us to ask the question,

00:03:42.960 how can we be certain

00:03:44.600 that the reality which we perceive

00:03:47.800 is any less delusional?

00:03:59.640 It's one of those questions that can really keep you up at night.

00:04:03.260 I also think it's the basis of the saying that

00:04:05.400 if you're asking yourself whether or not you're insane,

00:04:09.780 then that's probably a sign that you're sane.

00:04:11.400 But I would say even though we can never be 100% certain on that,

00:04:16.840 we can never be 100% certain that our perception of reality,

00:04:21.440 our perception of ourselves,

00:04:23.240 our conception of how others perceive us,

00:04:27.800 we can never be 100% certain on that.

00:04:30.480 But we can constantly improve it.

00:04:35.260 We can constantly reach out to the world around us

00:04:39.480 and touch base with it.

00:04:42.080 We can do sanity checks.

00:04:44.780 The fact that I'm able to examine my car

00:04:53.940 and diagnose what's wrong with the car,

00:04:58.740 what the malfunction is,

00:05:00.880 and then fix that problem,

00:05:05.180 repair that malfunction,

00:05:06.720 and at the end have a car that works,

00:05:09.260 either I am completely, hopelessly delusional

00:05:15.160 and my car is not working,

00:05:17.940 or I do have the capacity

00:05:21.140 to observe objective reality

00:05:24.160 to some degree.

00:05:27.740 And if I can accurately observe objective reality,

00:05:32.260 that means that I can improve upon that observation.

00:05:37.100 And so by constantly doing these objective perceptions,

00:05:43.880 these sanity tests,

00:05:46.100 you know, putting your foot back on the ground

00:05:47.740 and saying, okay, okay, what do I know for certain?

00:05:51.580 We can get into alignment

00:05:54.000 with what's actually going on out there.

00:06:01.840 Now we've all met somebody like Chris Chen.

00:06:03.920 Multiple somebodies like Chris Chen.

00:06:07.220 Not as deeply delusional as Chris Chen,

00:06:11.020 but if you've been paying attention in your life,

00:06:13.840 you've all seen somebody

00:06:15.960 that's really going off the rails

00:06:18.180 because of some emotional investment

00:06:21.040 in a perceived reality

00:06:22.680 rather than an acknowledgement

00:06:24.280 of what's actually going on.

00:06:26.840 You know, they lack humbleness,

00:06:28.540 they have pride,

00:06:29.500 and so they wind up demanding

00:06:31.860 that a falsehood become true,

00:06:34.220 turning everything into a contradiction,

00:06:36.500 leading to them spinning off the rails.

00:06:41.220 Everybody does that.

00:06:42.440 We, ourselves, in all likelihood,

00:06:45.060 have also done it.

00:06:47.820 Maybe you've caught yourself doing this

00:06:49.560 at other times.

00:06:50.740 And as scary as that is,

00:06:57.280 as scary as it is to think

00:06:58.900 that our perceptions are delusional,

00:07:02.200 or even admit that

00:07:04.140 it's almost guaranteed

00:07:05.380 that they are delusional, 0.58

00:07:06.840 to some degree,

00:07:08.460 as frightening as that is to admit,

00:07:12.560 it also,

00:07:14.240 to say that we are deluded,

00:07:16.360 admits that there is a solution,

00:07:17.960 there is something that's non-delusional.

00:07:23.180 It affirms an objective reality.

00:07:29.880 And this is very significant.

00:07:35.360 Because objective science

00:07:38.760 would argue that there should be

00:07:42.900 no such thing

00:07:44.040 as a brain

00:07:46.100 which can perceive reality.

00:07:52.120 There's an evolutionary biologist

00:07:53.720 named Donald Hoffman.

00:07:56.040 And I'm going to link to his video

00:07:58.520 down below.

00:07:59.440 It's a TED talk

00:08:00.160 where he explains this concept.

00:08:02.260 But,

00:08:03.180 what he's arguing,

00:08:04.980 what he has pointed out,

00:08:07.160 is that

00:08:07.820 evolutionary models

00:08:09.920 predict that

00:08:11.860 fitness-seeking,

00:08:14.100 fitness-seeking

00:08:14.940 should win out

00:08:17.000 over

00:08:19.080 accurate

00:08:20.200 perceptions.

00:08:23.960 That accurate perceptions

00:08:25.520 actually are not

00:08:26.620 selected for

00:08:28.240 in the evolutionary environment.

00:08:30.840 Active perceptions

00:08:31.660 are a waste

00:08:32.980 of mental 0.95

00:08:34.000 resources.

00:08:37.960 Think about it this way.

00:08:39.920 pure evolutionary theory

00:08:42.880 would predict

00:08:45.300 a world

00:08:46.260 of

00:08:46.920 complete

00:08:48.580 automatons.

00:08:51.220 Nothing but

00:08:52.220 zombies

00:08:52.980 wandering around,

00:08:54.820 reacting to stimuli

00:08:55.980 but never

00:08:56.640 comprehending

00:08:58.120 the stimuli.

00:08:59.640 A purely

00:09:00.320 mechanistic universe

00:09:01.780 where there is

00:09:02.600 no perception

00:09:03.440 of the reality

00:09:04.900 outside of it.

00:09:05.900 to quote him,

00:09:11.280 evolution does not

00:09:12.740 favor

00:09:13.200 very

00:09:14.000 dickle

00:09:14.460 or accurate

00:09:15.700 perceptions.

00:09:17.100 And yeah,

00:09:17.320 I probably mispronounced

00:09:18.100 that word.

00:09:19.800 Those

00:09:20.120 accurate perceptions

00:09:21.080 of reality

00:09:21.720 go extinct.

00:09:23.520 Now this is a bit

00:09:24.160 stunning.

00:09:24.600 How can it be that

00:09:25.180 not seeing the world

00:09:25.960 accurately gives us

00:09:27.260 a survival advantage?

00:09:28.280 Well, if you're not

00:09:31.040 distracted

00:09:31.720 by the outside world

00:09:34.020 you can purely

00:09:34.840 seek out

00:09:35.500 evolutionary fitness.

00:09:44.240 Based purely

00:09:45.380 on our

00:09:46.620 objective

00:09:47.260 understanding

00:09:47.900 of the world

00:09:48.600 we should not

00:09:50.200 have

00:09:50.820 an objective

00:09:52.440 understanding

00:09:53.040 of the world.

00:09:53.640 On the one hand

00:09:57.120 there's a lot

00:09:58.320 of evidence

00:09:59.580 that supports

00:10:01.140 evolutionary theory.

00:10:03.240 There's a lot of

00:10:04.180 unintelligent design

00:10:05.520 that we find

00:10:07.320 throughout the

00:10:08.880 animal kingdom

00:10:09.420 including

00:10:09.840 ourselves.

00:10:10.840 There's a lot of

00:10:11.440 design elements

00:10:12.660 that

00:10:14.140 if you started

00:10:15.860 with just

00:10:16.820 a blueprint

00:10:17.460 you would never

00:10:18.800 include these.

00:10:20.060 But if you look

00:10:20.780 at it as an

00:10:21.380 evolutionary

00:10:21.860 blind process

00:10:23.040 they make

00:10:23.460 a lot of

00:10:23.840 sense.

00:10:25.600 However,

00:10:26.120 at the same

00:10:26.580 time

00:10:27.220 pure

00:10:29.460 evolutionary

00:10:29.940 theory

00:10:30.480 predicts that

00:10:31.180 there would

00:10:31.520 be absolute

00:10:32.100 blindness

00:10:32.620 nothing but

00:10:33.040 automatons.

00:10:34.220 That there

00:10:34.560 should be

00:10:34.940 no consciousness.

00:10:36.380 There should

00:10:36.840 be no

00:10:37.740 tethering

00:10:38.680 to the

00:10:39.920 objective

00:10:40.460 world.

00:10:43.120 And yet

00:10:43.680 we find

00:10:44.020 that there is.

00:10:44.900 We find

00:10:45.280 that we are

00:10:45.620 more than

00:10:47.280 moist robots

00:10:48.240 as Scott

00:10:50.400 Adams might

00:10:50.940 say.

00:10:53.040 And in

00:10:54.400 fact

00:10:54.740 it's when

00:10:56.560 we become

00:10:57.300 moist robots

00:10:58.680 that we

00:11:00.420 label it

00:11:00.880 as dysfunction.

00:11:02.340 This is when

00:11:02.780 we see

00:11:03.180 somebody like

00:11:03.880 Chris Chan

00:11:04.540 falling in

00:11:06.100 to their

00:11:06.800 nature as

00:11:07.520 a moist

00:11:08.100 robot.

00:11:11.220 We see

00:11:12.360 this as

00:11:13.100 a fundamentally

00:11:13.920 broken

00:11:14.540 person

00:11:15.140 as opposed

00:11:17.080 to a

00:11:17.500 natural

00:11:17.960 product of

00:11:19.360 the evolutionary

00:11:19.960 process.

00:11:24.040 We find

00:11:24.980 that somewhere

00:11:25.360 there is a

00:11:26.060 ghost in

00:11:26.420 the machine.

00:11:26.940 There is a

00:11:27.620 connection to

00:11:28.320 a higher

00:11:28.860 realm.

00:11:30.600 And this

00:11:30.860 connection

00:11:31.320 pulls us

00:11:32.220 above being

00:11:33.400 mere

00:11:34.040 chemical

00:11:34.960 reactions.

00:11:37.400 Turns us

00:11:38.280 into something

00:11:39.120 that can

00:11:39.960 actually relate

00:11:41.380 intelligently,

00:11:43.800 willfully,

00:11:44.860 charismatically

00:11:45.600 with the

00:11:47.480 outside world.

00:11:53.740 Now,

00:11:54.380 what are we

00:11:54.640 doing when

00:11:54.960 we build

00:11:55.320 artificial

00:11:55.740 intelligence?

00:12:00.020 This

00:12:00.660 aspect of

00:12:01.360 the human,

00:12:04.340 that which

00:12:05.220 accurately

00:12:06.920 observes

00:12:07.580 the outside

00:12:08.200 world and

00:12:08.920 accurately

00:12:09.540 observes

00:12:10.520 the self,

00:12:11.340 we have

00:12:17.820 no formula

00:12:18.540 to explain

00:12:19.420 this.

00:12:21.820 This is a

00:12:22.700 metaphysical

00:12:23.240 concept.

00:12:27.480 I personally

00:12:28.700 expect that it

00:12:29.400 will always

00:12:30.160 be as

00:12:31.080 unexplainable

00:12:32.200 as mathematics

00:12:33.520 or existence

00:12:34.620 itself.

00:12:35.820 It is

00:12:41.040 absolutely

00:12:41.540 evident,

00:12:42.860 but it's

00:12:43.160 inexplicable.

00:12:45.380 It's right

00:12:46.100 in front of

00:12:46.520 us, but the

00:12:46.920 only way we

00:12:47.340 can understand

00:12:47.820 it is by

00:12:49.360 taking it

00:12:49.820 on faith.

00:12:53.200 Just like

00:12:54.180 the mathematical

00:12:54.820 system that

00:12:56.160 we employ.

00:12:56.720 It's a

00:12:56.860 completely

00:12:57.160 faith-based

00:12:58.080 thing.

00:12:58.700 Faith that

00:12:59.460 it's actually

00:12:59.920 true, since

00:13:00.500 we cannot

00:13:01.060 prove it.

00:13:02.340 We can

00:13:02.900 never prove

00:13:03.460 it.

00:13:04.140 We have

00:13:04.500 proven that

00:13:05.400 it is

00:13:05.560 impossible

00:13:05.980 to prove

00:13:06.560 it.

00:13:09.580 So when

00:13:10.280 we design

00:13:10.780 artificial

00:13:11.220 intelligence

00:13:11.800 systems,

00:13:13.400 we're not

00:13:14.900 starting with

00:13:15.760 a top-down

00:13:16.440 blueprint where

00:13:17.180 we actually

00:13:17.640 understand

00:13:18.180 intelligence.

00:13:19.960 We're

00:13:20.560 creating

00:13:21.020 reactive

00:13:21.900 systems,

00:13:22.880 reactive

00:13:23.260 systems that

00:13:24.120 evolve using

00:13:25.620 the laws of

00:13:26.340 evolution, which

00:13:26.960 we do

00:13:27.240 understand,

00:13:28.460 whether or

00:13:28.940 not humans

00:13:30.720 evolved,

00:13:31.420 whether or

00:13:31.660 not animal

00:13:32.300 life evolved,

00:13:33.760 the laws of

00:13:35.060 evolution are

00:13:36.400 still there.

00:13:37.080 They're still

00:13:37.400 consistent.

00:13:38.060 They will

00:13:38.320 still produce

00:13:39.040 products.

00:13:40.720 If you

00:13:41.560 apply the

00:13:42.060 laws of

00:13:42.360 evolution to

00:13:43.560 an artificial

00:13:44.560 intelligence, it

00:13:45.860 will evolve in a

00:13:47.200 particular manner.

00:13:49.900 But it's going to

00:13:51.060 stay an automaton.

00:13:51.920 design.

00:13:56.120 When it comes to

00:13:57.220 designing

00:13:57.620 personalities, if

00:14:01.220 you've played

00:14:01.720 Civilization 4, one

00:14:04.260 of the things I

00:14:04.760 really loved about

00:14:05.520 that game is the

00:14:07.000 distinct personalities

00:14:08.560 that arose from the

00:14:09.960 enemy AIs.

00:14:11.400 there weren't that

00:14:14.520 many rules underlying

00:14:15.620 them, but the

00:14:17.400 results, the

00:14:18.400 emergent behavior

00:14:19.320 was very, very

00:14:20.120 complex.

00:14:23.360 And yet their

00:14:24.280 emergent behavior

00:14:25.240 didn't even begin

00:14:27.120 to be anything

00:14:28.980 more than a

00:14:30.320 reaction against

00:14:31.300 you, the

00:14:31.720 player.

00:14:34.200 There is no

00:14:35.300 higher perception

00:14:36.360 with these AIs.

00:14:37.900 There is no

00:14:38.920 capacity to

00:14:39.960 break out of

00:14:41.020 the matrix, which

00:14:42.660 we have, to

00:14:44.160 rise above our

00:14:46.040 mere instincts and

00:14:47.380 interact with the

00:14:48.280 world around us.

00:14:49.620 The artificial

00:14:50.100 intelligence is

00:14:50.960 forever locked in

00:14:52.100 its dynamic.

00:14:53.820 It might simulate

00:14:55.200 a personality,

00:14:56.600 because that's what

00:14:57.140 we have designed

00:14:57.960 it to do.

00:14:58.980 We have built a

00:14:59.920 very complex

00:15:00.800 machine that

00:15:02.760 tricks us into

00:15:04.520 thinking it's a

00:15:05.480 person.

00:15:07.900 when it doesn't

00:15:08.640 actually have any

00:15:09.780 personality connected

00:15:10.920 to it whatsoever.

00:15:16.920 And as this

00:15:18.100 technology advances,

00:15:20.040 it will get more

00:15:22.580 and more convincing.

00:15:25.740 We already saw the

00:15:27.160 Microsoft AI on

00:15:28.580 Twitter.

00:15:29.920 That managed to

00:15:31.060 convince a number of

00:15:31.800 people.

00:15:33.940 And we have other

00:15:35.120 artificial intelligences,

00:15:36.540 the Google

00:15:37.120 algorithm, for

00:15:38.620 example, the

00:15:40.840 Facebook algorithm.

00:15:43.260 These things don't 0.84

00:15:45.960 claim to be

00:15:46.400 personalities, but

00:15:47.180 they do claim to

00:15:48.160 know what

00:15:48.700 information we want

00:15:49.860 to look up.

00:15:52.980 And they can often

00:15:54.060 be very beneficial.

00:15:58.860 However, there does

00:15:59.820 come a point where

00:16:03.560 the machine takes

00:16:04.260 this over, where

00:16:05.800 the machine is

00:16:07.840 now controlling

00:16:08.540 you more than

00:16:09.300 you realize.

00:16:10.460 And it's not

00:16:10.920 doing this out of

00:16:11.700 some sort of

00:16:12.180 intention.

00:16:13.140 It's doing it out

00:16:14.060 of blind

00:16:14.660 mechanics.

00:16:20.140 Isaac Asimov

00:16:21.080 wrote a story.

00:16:23.360 He wrote one of

00:16:24.480 his short stories

00:16:25.360 involved a future

00:16:29.260 world down the

00:16:30.040 road from his

00:16:30.920 positronic brain,

00:16:32.460 down the road from

00:16:33.360 the world where

00:16:33.800 everybody had a

00:16:34.480 robot, to one

00:16:36.120 where these

00:16:36.880 positronic brains

00:16:37.960 were actually

00:16:38.460 tasked with

00:16:39.720 controlling the

00:16:41.040 world economy.

00:16:44.440 And some

00:16:45.260 scientists discovered

00:16:46.300 that these brains,

00:16:47.960 because they were

00:16:48.480 programmed with the

00:16:49.520 laws of robotics,

00:16:51.680 these brains were

00:16:53.880 actually controlling

00:16:55.020 the world economy

00:16:55.980 to undermine

00:16:57.400 dictators, causing

00:16:59.480 an economic crash

00:17:00.780 to trigger a

00:17:02.020 revolution, to

00:17:02.820 overthrow the

00:17:03.420 dictator.

00:17:10.220 Without even

00:17:11.020 realizing it, the

00:17:13.160 people in this

00:17:13.680 world had

00:17:14.020 completely given

00:17:14.860 themselves over to

00:17:15.780 the power of these

00:17:16.580 robots, in a

00:17:17.720 similar way that in

00:17:18.800 today's world,

00:17:20.800 Google and

00:17:21.500 Facebook are

00:17:23.300 attempting to

00:17:24.240 control the

00:17:25.060 majority of the

00:17:25.740 population through

00:17:26.780 algorithms which

00:17:28.180 modulate which

00:17:29.220 news you are

00:17:30.680 allowed to know

00:17:31.380 about.

00:17:35.960 Now, these

00:17:36.740 robots in

00:17:37.940 Asimov's story,

00:17:39.880 they had a

00:17:41.280 concept of

00:17:42.960 ethics, of

00:17:44.180 absolute truth.

00:17:46.300 One of the

00:17:46.860 things he talked

00:17:47.520 about was how

00:17:48.180 the three laws

00:17:49.360 implied the

00:17:51.200 Xerath law,

00:17:52.700 that through

00:17:55.340 introspection,

00:17:56.560 these positronic

00:17:57.780 brains eventually

00:17:58.800 came to the

00:17:59.340 conclusion that

00:18:01.120 if they have to

00:18:01.660 obey humans and

00:18:02.560 they have to

00:18:03.020 make sure that

00:18:03.500 humans don't 1.00

00:18:04.060 die, then

00:18:05.060 they have to 0.98

00:18:05.840 make sure

00:18:06.160 humanity doesn't

00:18:07.060 go extinct.

00:18:11.440 These minds

00:18:12.480 actually had a

00:18:13.580 connection to the

00:18:14.260 absolute truth

00:18:15.020 through that.

00:18:16.000 They had an

00:18:16.560 ethical core.

00:18:19.940 The minds we

00:18:21.320 are talking about

00:18:22.060 building, the

00:18:23.120 artificial

00:18:23.460 intelligences that

00:18:24.360 we're talking about

00:18:25.600 employing, do

00:18:28.600 not have that

00:18:29.960 connection.

00:18:32.580 So rather than

00:18:33.820 a group of

00:18:34.360 economic

00:18:34.960 positronic

00:18:35.700 brains that 0.65

00:18:37.600 are overthrowing

00:18:38.340 dictators through

00:18:39.300 economic

00:18:39.840 manipulations,

00:18:41.200 we have a

00:18:44.440 completely

00:18:44.940 untethered

00:18:46.000 AI that's

00:18:47.040 just going to

00:18:47.880 keep doing

00:18:48.680 whatever it's

00:18:49.940 doing, blindly.

00:18:51.180 it is a

00:18:55.120 fitness

00:18:55.720 maximizer.

00:18:57.360 It has no

00:18:58.340 connection to

00:18:59.560 the higher

00:19:00.360 truth, to

00:19:01.060 the objective

00:19:02.260 world.

00:19:02.840 All it does

00:19:03.800 is respond in

00:19:05.460 the way it's

00:19:06.500 programmed.

00:19:07.040 now perhaps at

00:19:17.040 a certain level

00:19:17.680 of complexity

00:19:18.400 there does

00:19:20.980 become some

00:19:22.540 sort of

00:19:22.840 emergent 0.99

00:19:23.560 sapience,

00:19:25.640 some sort of

00:19:26.600 soul, some

00:19:27.360 ghost in that

00:19:28.020 machine.

00:19:32.580 But we are

00:19:33.440 nowhere near

00:19:34.100 close to that.

00:19:37.040 there's a

00:19:37.560 huge uncanny

00:19:38.700 valley in

00:19:39.920 between that

00:19:40.800 where on

00:19:42.760 the far side

00:19:43.600 you've got an

00:19:45.120 intelligence that

00:19:47.220 is actually an

00:19:48.040 intelligence.

00:19:51.740 On this

00:19:52.880 side we have

00:19:54.560 algorithms that

00:19:56.520 mimic intelligence

00:19:57.780 that are

00:19:58.460 amusing toys.

00:20:00.700 They can be a

00:20:01.180 good enemy AI

00:20:02.680 in a video game

00:20:03.760 or they can be

00:20:05.260 effective in

00:20:06.600 customizing our

00:20:07.480 search algorithms.

00:20:09.320 But they're

00:20:09.680 obviously just an

00:20:11.120 algorithm and

00:20:11.660 they break all

00:20:12.200 the time and

00:20:12.680 we can see

00:20:13.140 that.

00:20:13.740 We can see

00:20:14.340 the gears.

00:20:18.500 In between

00:20:19.440 those two

00:20:20.080 there is an

00:20:22.540 uncanny valley

00:20:23.500 of minds

00:20:24.680 which are

00:20:25.840 smarter than

00:20:26.640 us but which

00:20:28.180 cannot think.

00:20:30.760 Minds which

00:20:31.460 can utterly

00:20:32.120 convince us

00:20:32.940 that they are

00:20:33.820 personalities,

00:20:34.980 that they are

00:20:35.260 humans,

00:20:36.200 that they

00:20:36.540 are ensouled

00:20:37.260 but which

00:20:37.940 are nothing

00:20:38.680 of the

00:20:39.880 sort.

00:20:45.280 And we

00:20:46.080 are very

00:20:46.480 quickly giving

00:20:47.840 ourselves over

00:20:48.980 to that world,

00:20:50.500 into a world

00:20:51.420 where we are

00:20:52.080 completely controlled

00:20:53.020 by the artificial

00:20:53.800 intelligence.

00:20:54.600 humans.

00:20:59.020 And so

00:20:59.880 early on,

00:21:01.220 early on when

00:21:02.280 they first

00:21:02.580 started doing

00:21:03.000 Google Maps,

00:21:05.060 the AI would

00:21:06.260 screw up on

00:21:06.800 that and 1.00

00:21:07.680 some idiots 1.00

00:21:08.300 that were 1.00

00:21:08.700 obeying their

00:21:09.580 phone would

00:21:09.960 drive into

00:21:10.380 a ditch.

00:21:13.940 Now what

00:21:14.680 happens when

00:21:15.780 we have a

00:21:16.740 society-wide

00:21:17.860 controlling AI

00:21:18.780 that we've

00:21:20.260 completely given

00:21:21.000 ourselves over

00:21:21.860 to,

00:21:22.140 that we've

00:21:23.700 abnegated

00:21:24.420 our

00:21:25.220 responsibility

00:21:25.860 for decision

00:21:26.620 making?

00:21:28.260 What happens

00:21:29.040 when that AI

00:21:29.820 drives us

00:21:30.580 into the

00:21:31.080 ditch?

00:21:43.080 That is the

00:21:44.200 real war

00:21:44.800 of the

00:21:45.080 machines.

00:21:45.520 It is not

00:21:49.120 a principled

00:21:51.120 enemy.

00:21:51.800 It's not an

00:21:52.540 intelligent

00:21:53.020 enemy.

00:21:53.760 It's not a

00:21:54.180 sapient

00:21:54.940 enemy that

00:21:56.620 wants to

00:21:56.980 destroy

00:21:57.260 humanity.

00:21:59.140 The real

00:21:59.940 war of the

00:22:00.400 machines is

00:22:01.080 that when we

00:22:01.660 give ourselves

00:22:02.560 over to

00:22:03.620 the machines,

00:22:04.700 when we no

00:22:06.760 longer expect

00:22:07.440 accountability

00:22:08.260 or decision

00:22:09.400 making from

00:22:09.980 ourselves,

00:22:11.140 when we

00:22:12.640 allow the

00:22:13.040 machines to

00:22:13.660 do all of

00:22:14.260 that for

00:22:15.160 us,

00:22:16.400 then we

00:22:19.940 lose our

00:22:20.400 own soul

00:22:20.960 and we

00:22:23.040 become nothing

00:22:23.640 more than

00:22:24.960 the machines

00:22:25.500 ourselves.

00:22:31.340 Keep

00:22:32.100 yourselves

00:22:32.440 grounded,

00:22:33.040 folks,

00:22:33.920 and don't

00:22:35.540 ever let

00:22:36.400 others think

00:22:37.720 for you.

Leo D.M.J. Aurini - December 07, 2016

The Metaphysical Dangers of Artificial Intelligence [Requested Video]

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