Using claims that artificial intelligence is becoming ‘conscious’ and ‘intuitive,’ governments are now planning their next artificial crisis from which to save us.
Speaking at the Canadian Senate’s ‘Committee on Matters Relating to the Impact of Artificial Intelligence in Canada,’ Professor Geoffrey Hinton, introduced as the “godfather of A.I.,” painted a dystopian future of A.I. clearly calculated to induce terror and fear.
The fear-mongering echoes past panics over climate and pandemics, but intuition itself offers the antidote. True intuition guards and protects, always rooted in reality and aligned with our best interests. It leaps from A to Z instantly, bypassing the slow plod of logic, and delivers ‘lightning-like’ warnings we ignore at our peril.
Hinton’s Senate testimony peddled existential doom: lethal autonomous weapons, virus creation, massive unemployment eroding tax bases, and superintelligent beings rendering humanity obsolete.
Calling for heavy regulation based on ‘socialist instincts’ to constrain capitalism, he openly supported Bill Gates’ advice (“he may have some bad behaviors but he’s very smart”) to tax A.I. agents – while morally condemning Donald Trump in the same breath.
As for his ‘expertise’ on A.I. itself, Hinton’s circular explanations of how large language models ‘understand’ through word prediction and feature fitting collapse under scrutiny; they mimic patterns, not grasp meaning or possess will.
Often referred to as ‘having a hunch,’ or even as experiencing a ‘spidey sense that’s tingling,’ intuition is clearly a warning system against potential danger.
Thus, intuitively speaking, the real danger of A.I. lies in the governments and politicians who want to control and regulate it – all under the guise of ‘protecting’ us from little more than words and their meanings.
Trust your own spidey sense over their hysteria, understanding that human intuition is what most often proves Just Right.
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