"In The Age Of A.I." - One Of The Most Important Documentries Ever Presented To The American Public

You can view the PBS 2 hr. episode and read the transcript of "In The Age Of A.I." here:

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/in-the-age-of-ai/transcript/


Things are encapsulated here and laid out so it is easy for people to understand the profoundness of what is going on relative to A.I, technology and U.S./China. You have a voice and can still determine what is going to go on but A.I. does not appear to be inclined to limit itself. There are voices in high places that are very concerned and very cautious about what could happen here. Movies have been made about a world run amok by A.I. however we are not looking at a "Skynet" yet but complications involving A.I., computer programming and cyber-warfare are very real and very now. The most important thing for representatives of our government is to do is what is important for the nation, not what is important for corporate profit or a security superstructure enabled by A.I.  You will have to make your stand and you will have to make democracy work. Your voice in government is all that stands in the way of a potentially uncontrollable A.I. and I mean that in the sense of men in pursuit of greed succumbing to the callous logic of artificial intelligence as the value of the person slowly falls by the wayside.
That is the key, a form of government. A democratic form of government can still control what A.I. can do and that form of government doesn't exist in Russia or China. Only in the United States does it exist in any reasonably resistant form. That fact of reality will surely and inevitably initiate a nexus. Your last real chance may be at the very door. The next checkmate will be the last where your voice is concerned and you probably will not even know because as we all know, the American public must not be brought to the point of panic and those entities who could overcome us in an A.I. enhanced cyber-war, namely China or Russia should they win, know that. The very fact that they win means they have the controlling hand in it all and so, outside a few quickly discredited voices, you probably will not even be allowed to know, period. It will just seem like your will is not being done in government but you have already been conditioned to accept that haven't you? At first you will begin to strangely see policies favoring a particular nation then after so much of that it will all begin to morph into a public pronouncement of a global government but covertly with one nation in control in the background. Inevitably that nations will and way, hardened by the logic of A.I., could be worked forcibly in and around us should it not be a democracy. The implications of that should be clear.

We all must become close attending stewards in what could be our last chance to inhibit and control a potential all controlling global "mind" of cold calculus. In the environment we have now may reside our last real chance. Chilling and alarmist? Yes. Necessarily sobering? Absolutely.

So we have witnessed a form of artificial intelligence called "deep learning" that mimics the neural networks of the human brain. This will be known always as the beginning of the real A.I. and so we are on our way.

Google’s AlphaGo was a computer program that, starting with the rules of Go and a database of historical games, had been designed to teach itself. Lee Sedol the world's greatest GO champion, in a head to head match was expected to beat AlphaGo but he lost decidedly. This was the moment, this was the beginning of the true artificial intelligence revolution...only two and one half years ago.

Where will we be in 10 years? Where will we be in two?

I have a real sense that you and I could be overwhelmed in a turnkey blink of an eye unless we grab the controls and quickly. For now it is still a civics exercise.