AI and the Battle for the Soul with Jonathan Pageau Lecture: Whom Does AI Serve? Sacrifice in the Digital Age

Who here saw the very strange interview between Tucker Carlson and Sam Altman? You've seen it? So we all have our opinions, I imagine, about the moral character of each of these people, but...

If you have not seen it, I would very much suggest you watch it.

Sometimes I feel like one of the reasons why Hollywood is collapsing is because it can't compete with the mad stories that are landing in our world.

And so I think that it would be a good idea to examine a little bit of what happened in that interview because it... features some of the big issues that AI is bringing to the fore.

And so as you know, I mean, Sam Altman is the CEO of OpenAI.

He has said that AI will displace the human in the same way that the Earth was no longer the center of the cosmos with Galileo, that that is the level of displacement that we will see happen.

You know, we have Elon Musk who told us that AI is more dangerous than nukes and screamed and asked everybody for a moratorium, asked everybody to slow it down, to stop it, please.

And then when no one did, he started XAI and created his own AI company.

And so what's going on? We are told that the disruption that AI will bring will be bigger than the printing press, right? Will be the largest technological disruption that we have ever seen.

We know that the printing press was part of the reasons for the war of religions.

We're told that AI will be a bigger disruption than the industrial revolution.

Right.

And we kind of know that that disruption brought about the industrial wars that we had at the beginning of the 20th century.

And so we're just speeding towards this thing.

And we have these papers that are coming out now showing us already that new graduates that come out of college are struggling to find positions, that entry-level positions are being eliminated because the AI is doing the work.

The AI can do the entry-level positions, and therefore people are struggling.

We have this warning of mass disruptions about employment.

We're Hearing and we know that all the students are using it to cheat to do their work to do all like all of this We we kind of know and the wildest thing about this is that This is the one that I find the most surprising is that the people that are developing the technology are also the ones that are warning us about it and So on the one hand, they're developing this technology and then they're saying, huh, there's a percentage that just might destroy all of humanity.

We don't know how big the percentage is, but it's possible.

There's a possibility that this will disrupt everything so much.

We have no idea what it's going to bring.

And yet we are racing towards this.

And the scariest thing in this is that every time an AI company announces that their AI is somehow demonstrating an anti-human behavior or is somehow demonstrating its capacity to escape or to transcend the bounds, the investments pour into the company.