Extremism, anxiety, fear, confusion, and a lot of reactionary behaviors are the mark of the times. People, everyone, ought to really take time and know the facts before making public statements, rash statements, predicting the possibility of the world ending, or at least enduring horrendous and widespread destruction.
It is understandable to see this in people who are not grounded in the faith of the Lord Jesus Christ, living as true disciples of the Lord. They have nothing to hold onto except their life here as they know it and believe it to be, and to also cling to this earth. As they most likely are chock full of misinformation.
Yes, Artificial Intelligence does pose great threats to mankind. Worldwide. AI has grown too powerful too quickly without any controls placed on its research, development, and IMPLEMENTATION.
In light of the potential and quickly becoming immediate dangers and threats from AI, nations, and governments are attempting a coming together to garner a consensus as to regulations, controls, how far development ought to go, and other aspects of AI.
How did AI become so big? In the 21st century, computers got more powerful, which enabled AI to take flight. The launch of ChatGPT in November was a game-changer and more than 100 million people now regularly use the AI chatbot. AI has been around a lot longer than the release of ChatGPT suggests, with the term’s origins being traced back to the early computers of the 1950s.
Problems and the potential of AI operating in the removal and termination of tens of millions of lives is a reality as the intelligence may be called artificial, but the AI operating systems do so with an ever-increasing intelligence devoid of emotion, without family, without a spirit and soul. As people vainly, foolishly become either enticed and mesmerized by AI, or they are put off by AI big time, and there certainly are and will be people who profess to be Christians that fall into all those groups fail to pause and acknowledge that it is God Who decides when the world will end. And while AI will certainly be a tool used by the Antichrist and his false prophet.
God decides.
Not people.
People bring about God’s decision that the Day of the Lord is at hand and He then permits by His will the unfolding of every word within the Book of Revelation and the books of Daniel, Joel, and Isaiah as well as every prophet in the Word of God.
While the inventions of man will lead to greater and increasing sufferings and tribulation, and will certainly be tools implemented in the Great and Final Tribulation, it is the sin of men and women, it is the rampant turning from God and approving of every wickedness and sin under the sun that brings about the fulfillment of every word within the HolyBible.
God is in control.
God is Sovereign over all things. Including every invention of man, including artificial intelligence.
I can understand the people who are only faithful in themselves, a false god or thing to put faith in, that put their faith in this earth to develop and increase in fear and anxiety regarding AI but true believers ought not be part of that group filled with fear.
No one can tell us when the end comes. How much time this world has remaining. But if faithful to the Lord, truly, and if fluent and literate within the teachings of the Scriptures — not merely in reading them, not merely in intellectualizing them, but in loving the Word and being nourished, strengthened, and made wiser by the reading and meditation upon God’s Word — thinking deeply on it asking the Holy Spirit to help in our understanding and discernment of the Holy Bible we come to see, hear, and know everything is in God’s hands and we ought not fear.
We should be made stronger and resolute in the faith, in the spiritual knowledge of the Word, prepared for the Day of the Lord. Our eyes and hearts on the reward of eternal life to come by our service, belief, faith, and living of the Word of God.
AI is no match for God, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, or a true believer. No matter what may come.
Ken Pullen, A CROOKED PATH, Tuesday, June 6th, 2023
Two years to save the world, says Sunak’s AI adviser
Matt Clifford warns of bioweapon and cyberattack threats
Monday, June 05, 2023
Reprinted from The Sunday Times [London]
AI systems will be powerful enough to “kill many humans” within just two years, Rishi Sunak’s adviser on artificial intelligence has warned.
Matt Clifford, who is helping the prime minister set up the government’s AI taskforce, said policymakers should be prepared for threats ranging from cyberattacks to the creation of bioweapons if mankind fails to find a way to control the technology.
“You can have really very dangerous threats to humans that could kill many humans, not all humans, simply from where we’d expect models to be in two years time,” he said, speaking on TalkTV.
In the medium term, experts caution that AI could be used to design chemical and biological weapons and conduct massive attacks over the internet. Last week a statement signed by 350 AI experts, including the CEO of OpenAI, which developed ChatGPT, warned there was also a risk in the longer term that the technology could lead to the extinction of humanity.
Clifford, who chairs the government’s Advanced Research and Invention Agency (Aria), said that this “sounds like the plot of a movie” but was a real concern — and one reason why countries needed to work across borders to create regulations.
“The kind of existential risk that I think the letter writers were talking about is . . . what happens once we effectively create a new species, you know an intelligence that is greater than humans,” he said, adding that on a “bullish” time scale we could have a computer cleverer than a human within two years.
“If we try and create artificial intelligence that is more intelligent than humans and we don’t know how to control it, then that’s going to create a potential for all sorts of risks now and in the future . . . it’s right that it should be very high on the policymakers’ agendas.”
What concerned him about the present situation, he said, was that “the people who are building the most capable systems freely admit that they don’t understand exactly how they exhibit the behaviours that they do”. When asked whether this was “quite terrifying”, Clifford replied: “Absolutely”.
However, Clifford said that AI also had the potential to be an overwhelming force for good — provided that we find ways to control it. “If it goes right . . . you can imagine AI curing diseases, making the economy more productive, helping us get to a carbon neutral economy.”
Global regulators are trying to come to grips with the technology which is moving at pace. Both the White House and Downing Street have convened summits of AI leaders in recent weeks to find a path forward.
Sunak is eager to promote the U.K. as a possible hub for a future global regulator, modelled on the nuclear body the International Atomic Energy Agency. He is also keen on the development of an international research entity akin to Cern, the particle research centre.
European and U.S. regulators met in Sweden this week to find some common ground on a voluntary code of conduct for AI firms, despite indications that they have differences in approach.
Brussels is forging ahead with the AI Act, which will designate certain types of the technology as high or low risk. Both the U.S. and U.K. are keen to develop approaches that do not damage innovation, but Sunak has recently signalled that Britain may take a more interventionist approach than it originally indicated in a recent white paper.
As the warnings from some quarters of the AI industry get louder and more extreme, some in the sector believe the alarm could be self-serving.
Arvind Narayanan, professor of computer science at Princeton, wrote last week: “The history of technology to date suggests that the greatest risks come not from technology itself, but from the people who control the technology using it to accumulate power and wealth.
“We should be wary of Prometheans who want to both profit from bringing the people fire, and be trusted as the firefighters.”
Others believe that the voices of prominent computer scientists, such as Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, two of the AI “godfathers” who have recently warned about the technology’s threats, are being treated like “hero scientists”.
Kyunghyun Cho, a prominent AI researcher and associate professor at New York University, told Venture Beat: “I think we are seeing the negative side of the hero scientist. They’re all just individuals. They can have different ideas. Of course, I respect them and I think that’s how the scientific community always works. We always have dissenting opinions. But now this hero worship, combined with this AGI doomerism . . . I don’t know, it’s too much for me to follow.”
Azeem Azhar, an industry expert at the research group Exponential View, said in his newsletter: “Just because people are experts in the core research of neural networks does not make them great forecasters, especially when it comes to societal questions or questions of the economy, or questions of geopolitics.”
He pointed out that Hinton warned in 2016 that radiologists could be made obsolete by AI — but the reality is that there are still worldwide shortages of radiologists.
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