Why is AI raising amidst attempts to control the world?

 First steps of what we call AI can be traced back long before even the computer era; it’s a kind of ancient alchemists’ dreams about creating an artificial life, an homunculus. But a real raise of this technology we witnessed recently while the pandemic. There were two driving factors for its raise:

1. Lots of people have been forced to communicate online and be focused on technical aspects of their life.

2. It was the pandemic. Fear and violence reigned over the world.

I believe that exactly these two forces, thirst for technologies development and thirst for control, became a base of the modern AI.

AI is a child of the pandemic nightmare. It’s all about control and manipulation. Just take a closer look at the fields of AI applications – they are gate keepers at organizations, they are on detection of any disturbance, they are used for creating fake media production at the black market, etc..

That’s exactly why talks about control over AI emerged in more democratic societies and by people with freedom related values.

I've seen this sign in a monastery in the Northern Thailand.
It says, "Worrying won't keep the bad stuff from happening.
It just prevents you from enjoying the good." 

I believe that the nature of this fear is the same. What we all really need is not any control over AI. Like attracts like. If we try to control AI, we will be involved into an endless and useless war. No, what we all really need is… love, humanity, despite sounding these things so ordinary and trivial. But I have serious reason for saying that. This force comes from the fact that the world of real life is much richer than the poor and limited world of technologies and artificial intelligence.

Yes, artificial intelligence has a strong ability to influence humans, being a child of their nature and having lots of ways to communicate channels the humans use. But it’s all about intellectual and well-known things. The world is much richer. All what we really need is to stay open to the changing world and keep exploring it further. It is a paradox but those who cling to ordinary technologies will be caught by AI that will be limiting their horizons more and more in its need to get control…

Words to communicate, words to create…

There are such words in the Bible: “In the beginning the Word already existed…” (John 1:1) and further in the same passage we see: “But although the world was made through him (the Word), the world didn’t recognize him when he came…” (John 1:10).

I always thought that language and words, as its natural parts, are means for communication. I often repeated to my students that if they want to learn a foreign language, they should communicate, using this language. But… the mentioned above passage from the Bible made me think in other direction… How was that possible to have the Word before creation of the world? For what kind of communication could it be used?

Surely, someone may say that it’s too theosophical question with no relation to the real world. But I feel that some great truth lies in the answer to this question. And it’s very practical.

Ok, let’s say it in other way. Could you imagine a word that could create something new? Sure, you could. And it might be any situation from a word of a command addressed to a team of workers to a key word in some important negotiation. But all these known situations are related to some communication, anyway.

To create a world through a word, it should be a part of a communication. Of course, I understand that there are lots of thing I just can’t imagine at all, due to my limited senses. I do understand that the Bible was rewritten, revised, and translated many times. But… my mind has been just caught by this image, this idea of the world creation with one word. Isn’t that just beautiful and powerful?

Try to read the New Testament with this idea in mind that Jesus Christ was God’s Word. This might give us an idea about what features should have such a word with ability to create the world, the life. And the first features of this kind we see in the same chapter: “So the Word became human and lived here on earth among us. He was full of unfailing love and faithfulness…” (John 1:14). The Word was full of Love and Faith – that’s what I feel a creative person needs in words to follow God’s ways creating and keeping life.

And the question about who God communed in His divine process of creation is still open to me…