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by Patrick Wood
September 10, 2024
from
Technocracy Website
Two members of the
Trilateral Commission,
Henry Kissinger and Eric
Schmidt, team up to explain
how AI,
is the beginning of a new stage of human
evolution.
Amazon's summary:
"Charting a course between blind faith and
unjustified fear, Genesis outlines an effective strategy for
navigating
The Age of AI."
The book will be released on November 19, 2024,
after the momentous U.S. election.
Kissinger, of course, is
dead, having passed his mantle
and baton to fellow Trilateral Commissioner Eric Schmidt.
They argue that,
"in the Age of AI, humanity will change" and
that "we will need a fundamentally new form of control."
In the video below, the authors state,
"I believe we are heading into a new age
where our perceptions of reality will have changed. We know that
they have a different perception of reality.
They understand it differently.
What we don't know is, is there a different
reality or are they perceiving the current reality differently?"
I have suggested in the past that AI will
collapse "reality" for billions of people on the Earth:
Warning -
The Total Collapse of Reality Could Be at Hand
As described above, a
simulacrum is anti-reality...
This is not a paradigm shift of reality. This is not a "new
realty". This is not reality, period. Unfortunately, billions of
people risk being captured by it.
While everyone is looking at shiny new simulacra forming right
before their eyes, reality is escaping out the back door.
We will have to wait to read 'Genesis' until
November 19th but here are three summaries to give you an idea where
it is going.
Axios
The last of 20 books written by the late Henry Kissinger - this one
co-authored by former Google CEO
Eric Schmidt and former Microsoft
exec Craig Mundie - will explore,
"what it means to be human in the age of AI."
Why it matters:
"Genesis," out Nov. 19, wrestles with the
massive implications of machines becoming our active
collaborators, the publisher notes.
It's a sequel to Schmidt and Kissinger's prescient 2021 book,
"The Age of AI - And our Human
Future."
They also made an
above animated video with the help of
AI that included a cartoon rendering of Kissinger, who died last
year at 100.
What they're saying:
"We wanted readers to weigh the fact that for
all the remarkable technological progress we are witnessing, we
still need to make difficult decisions with partial knowledge,
in ambiguous situations, and without the comfort of absolute
moral certainty," Schmidt tells
Axios.
Amazon
As Artificial Intelligence (AI) becomes more dynamic and ubiquitous,
it is dramatically empowering people in all walks of life while also
giving rise to urgent questions about the future of humanity - a
historic challenge whose contours and consequences are revealed by
three eminent thinkers in Genesis.
As it absorbs data,
gains agency, and intermediates between humans
and reality, AI will help us to address enormous crises, from
climate change to geopolitical conflicts to income inequality.
It might well solve some of the greatest
mysteries of our universe, revolutionize fields as diverse as
medicine and architecture, and elevate the human spirit to
unimaginable heights.
But it will also pose challenges on a scale and
of an intensity that we have never seen:
usurping our power of
independent judgment and action, testing our relationship with the
divine, and perhaps even spurring a new phase in human evolution.
Whom will we choose to lead our species
through this wilderness?
Or have we, passively and unwittingly,
already chosen?
Charting a course between blind faith and
unjustified fear, Genesis outlines an effective strategy for
navigating the age of AI.
The last book of elder statesman Henry Kissinger,
written with technologists Eric Schmidt and Craig Mundie, it
prepares the decision-makers of today, that is, all of us,
for the choices of tomorrow, and equips us to
seize the opportunities presented by AI without falling prey to
the darker forces that this revolution has unleashed.
Paris Libraries
A few short years ago, artificial intelligence (AI) inhabited a
small corner of the public debate.
Today, following rapid advances in technology, AI
is a front-page topic of global news outlets and an issue on the
minds of leaders in science, business, and politics the world over.
New Al and human responses to them could
transform,
-
the nature of truth
-
the human relationship to reality
-
the exploration of knowledge
-
the physical evolution of
humanity
-
the conduct of diplomacy and war
-
the international
system...
These are the crucial issues of the coming
decades, and they ought to be the guiding concerns of leaders in
every arena.
The new capabilities of AI today, impressive as they are now, will
appear weak in hindsight and its powers are increasing at an
accelerating rate.
Powers we have not yet imagined are set to infuse
our daily lives.
Future Al will facilitate enormous advances in
education, medicine, and basic sciences...
Al could discover new medicines to cure
pernicious disease and new materials to produce cleaner, more
efficient energy.
They could predict the occurrence of
earthquakes and design evacuation strategies.
They could revolutionize the availability of
education in every language.
These machines' capabilities come with
technical and human risks...
Today's technologies function in ways that their
inventors did not predict, and that pattern is likely to continue.
Al seems to compress human timescales.
Objects in the future are closer than they
appear.
The advent of artificial intelligence is a question of human
survival.
Al's future powers, running at inhuman speeds,
will render traditional regulation useless.
We will need a
fundamentally new form of control...
Once they have coalesced around a consensus,
nations and international organizations must develop new political
structures for AI monitoring, enforcement, and crisis response.
That will require the resolution of not one but
two "alignment problems":
In the Age of AI, humanity will change.
The only question is whether we will choose to
continue to assert authority over how that change occurs...
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