The AI Apocalypse won’t be from AI gaining sentience, or becoming “god-like.” It will be evil billionaires and fools using a “Chinese Room” to gain power and control for themselves while using “AI” as a scapegoat for their cruelty.

It’s a lie to call what we have today “Artificial Intelligence” and we’re about as far from real artificial intelligence as we were 50 years ago. Anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something or wants to get you to submit to their authority by putting on a new, “high tech” face.

Not to go all Andrew Ryan from Bioshock (he was a deeply flawed character, and I’ll admit I’m adding a bit of my own meaning to his quote), but “No gods, no kings, only man” comes to mind. Any time someone tells you there’s a higher power with all the answers, beneath it all, it’s always just a man who wants power.