The Darkside of AI – Transhumanism and the War Against Humanity

Academy of Ideas

Self-improvement, Education

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🗓️ 17 February 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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In an interview in 1964, the science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke stated: “The most intelligent inhabitants of that future world won’t be men or monkeys. They’ll be machines—the remote descendants of today’s computers. Now, the present-day electronic brains are complete morons. But this will not be true in another generation. They will start to […]

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0:08.0	In an interview in 1964, the science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke stated,
0:14.0	the most intelligent inhabitants of that future world won't be men or monkeys.
0:18.0	They'll be machines, the remote descendants of today's computers.
0:22.5	Now, the present-day electronic brains are complete morons, but this will not be true in another
0:27.3	generation. They will start to think, and eventually they will completely outthink their makers.
0:33.8	In January 2025, President Donald Trump announced the Stargate Project, a $500 billion
0:40.3	joint venture to invest in artificial intelligence infrastructure.
0:44.3	Masayoshi Sun, CEO of SoftBank, who was on hand for Trump's announcement, said this project
0:50.0	marked the beginning of our Golden Age.
0:52.6	While a letter addressing Stargate from Open AI,
0:55.3	the creators of Chat GPT stated that, all of us look forward to continuing to build and develop
1:00.8	AI for the benefit of all of humanity. We believe that this new step is critical on the path
1:06.0	and will enable creative people to figure out how to use AI to elevate humanity.
1:11.6	The Stargate Project is a clear sign of AI's deepening influence on the modern zeitgeist.
1:16.6	No longer is AI merely the subject of theoretical speculation.
1:20.6	Its technologies are now shaping the world in which we live.
1:23.6	All technology, however, carries the potential for both good and evil, and in this video
1:29.6	we explore the darker side of AI. We argue that if the dreams of AI enthusiasts are realized,
1:35.7	the outcome could be the extinction of humanity or a nightmarish technological dystopia. For riding
1:41.6	the wave of AI's advancement is the fanatical ideology of transhumanism,
1:46.0	which is embraced by many in the upper echelons of corporate political and scientific power.
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