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Harari: "AI is creating the useless class". Grim outlook for 2024 (Survival Lilly) - C C - Dec 22, 2023
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Today's topic is going to be the outlook for 2024 and what the future might bring to us in the next year.
Now a lot of you guys are not using Twitter, and I have to say that's a mistake. Because Twitter is the only platform which allows raw and unfiltered information.
On other platforms people are holding back, especially YouTube, because professional YouTubers they don't want to lose their monetization, or they don't want to get censored, and shadow-banned. So on my Twitter account I post articles and videos and links of information which I find relevant, but also sometimes disturbing and shocking.
So now let's check the contents of my Twitter account. https://twitter.com/Survivallilly
I would like to show you this video here which is by Mr Yuval Noah Harari. He's the spokesperson of the World Economic Forum.
Harari: The biggest thing happening right now is a shift in authority from humans to algorithms to AI. Now increasingly this decision about you, about your life, is done by an AI.
You know the whole idea that humans have [...] free will, and nobody knows what's happening inside me. So whatever I choose whether in the election or whether in the supermarket. This Is my free will.
That's over.
We may see humankind splitting into biological castes with the rise of bioengineering.
It might be possible to translate economic inequality into biological inequality. And then instead of humankind being united, we will see humankind splitting into castes or classes.
Most humans will become economically useless and politically powerless. Already we are beginning to see the creation of a new class of humans: the useless class. Not unemployed, but unemployable. The useless class people who don't have any skills that the new economy needs,
Just as the Industrial Revolution in the 19th century created the new working class, the proletariat, so now the Artificial Intelligence Revolution is beginning to create the useless class -- a class that has no military or economic usefulness. And therefore also no political power.
The big political and economic question of the 21st century will be what do we need humans for? Or at least what do we need so many humans for?
[...] At present, the best guess we have is keep them happy with drugs and computer games. It's already happening under different titles, different headings. You see more and more people spending more time solving the inner problems with the drugs and computer games.
[...] So that's what Mr Harari is saying, and I find it really disturbing. It's like a dystopian movie that we are slowly transforming into.
The next article here is saying that humans may be fueling global warming by breathing...
Grim outlook for 2023