Thoughts on AI Taking Over the World


Dystopia? Fusion of humans and robots? Brain interfacing?

I grew up reading dystopian fiction: Brave New World, 1984, Fahrenheit 451, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. Dystopian worlds are fascinating. I suppose they could be a result of technological advancement severely outpacing developments in governing civilization. For example, to what extent should IP be protected? Today, plagiarism is only punished when information belonging to some corporation is reused to make someone else money. What if brain interfaces existed and corporations that rely on protection of IP can block any person’s brain from thinking of any ideas related to their IP? If your Netflix subscription expires, you then forget everything you’ve watched.

Everything I’ve said above is absurd yet could be plausible with the right technology. That’s the nature of dystopian fiction. It brings up the question of if a certain technology existed, how would governments and human interaction evolve to avoid the destruction of society and the fall into chaos?

With the current advancements in AI, automatons could be replacing most jobs and professions soon, and the remaining people in the job market will have to figure out how to collaborate with AI to keep their jobs. For now, the people who’ll succeed in today’s economy are those who release AI products and those who are crafty enough to come up with as many lucrative uses for AI as possible. It seems like the logical conclusion is the fusion of human and AI to make being that can learn and evolve at extraordinarily fast rates (yet another use of brain interfacing, lol). It will rely on a feedback loop of the human side providing inputs in the form of biological impulses between synapses of neurons and the AI side training accordingly.

Maybe AI will have totally revolutionized the world when it replaces religion, science, and government as the entity in which most people have faith in. Similar to how people use Google search to deal with the unknown (e.g. What is happening on the other side of the world? Where does the sun come from? Why do I keep procrastinating?), people will use AI religiously and trust its answers.



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