"An AI expert who once worked for Google has said prospective parents should hold off having kids until the tech is controlled - because of the potentially catastrophic effect it could have.
Speaking on an episode of the Diary of a CEO podcast, Mo Gawdat, an ex-chief business officer at Google X, warned risks caused by artificial intelligence in the immediate future outweigh even the potential devastation which could be caused by climate change.
...The whizz said that AI is part of a “perfect storm” of significant threats entire societies are facing.
He added: "The risks are so bad, in fact, that when considering all the other threats to humanity, you should hold off from having kids if you are yet to become a parent".
When podcast host Steven Bartlett asked if he would “seriously consider” this, Gawdat replied that “I would wait a couple of years”, adding that it is “bigger than artificial intelligence”.
Gawdat continued: “There has never been such a perfect storm in the history of humanity. Economic, geopolitical, global warming, climate change, the whole idea of AI, this is a perfect storm, the depth of uncertainty…it has never been more intense.
“If you really loved your kids would you really want to expose them to all this?”
The latest message of caution comes after a dire warning by several AI pioneers in an open letter asking developers to pause for six months in order to allow for regulations to catch up." Read more Here https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1777980/ai-expert-warns-against-having-kids
I have been saying for a very long time that humanity is insane and with the aid of technology is going to destroy itself much faster. I don't see a positive outcome at all.
Not having children that's what I'm most proud of! I was a very young child when I realized this world is messed up and I made a conscious decision to not bring children to this crazy world. I promised myself that the pain would stop with me.
The great malady of our society, implicated in all our troubles and affecting us individually and socially, is the idealization of our parents and childhood and the denial of childhood suffering.
When we idealize our parents and childhood and deny childhood suffering, it does not go away. It appears symptomatically in obsessions, addictions, violence, greed, deceit, and loss of meaning. Our temptation is to isolate these symptoms or try to eradicate them one by one, but the root problem is the idealization of our parents and childhood and the denial of childhood suffering. https://sylvieshene.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-great-malady-of-our-society.html
The conversation about the effects of childhood repression in our society needs to start happening in the stage of the world, sooner rather than later, if we want to save ourselves and humanity from falling off the cliff and committing mass suicide. https://sylvieshene.blogspot.com/2016/07/the-conversation-about-effects-of.html
I did my part to help heal the world by healing myself and publishing my book A Dance to Freedom: Your Guide to Liberation from Lies and Illusions sharing my life experiences and psychological discoveries.
So other people can also heal themselves. As long as people's childhood repression goes unresolved -- they will be shackled into the chains of compulsion repetition -- and it doesn't matter how well anyone articulates very nice ideas...
The problem is not a lack of knowledge and educated people, there are plenty of educated people with intellectual knowledge, the problem is an emotional blockage with the so-called “professionals” or “educated people” hiding behind their rationalizations and seductive theories to protect themselves from having to face and feel their own emotional pain. It takes courage to see, face, and feel our painful truths. Intelligence alone is not enough; it rather helps create seductively, rationalizations, theories, illusions, and lies.
Education alone is just another illusion. Resolving childhood repression is the only long-term solution for people to stop following blindly political leaders. And that is a lot more difficult!!!
"I wonder how the high colleges managed to produce so many high asses." Paracelsus
Alice Miller explains beautifully in her book For Your Own Good: hidden cruelty in child-rearing and the Roots of Violence page 42 and 43: "Just as in the symbiosis of the "diaper stage," there is no separation here of subject and object. If the child learns to view corporal punishment as "a necessary measure" against "wrongdoers," then as an adult he will attempt to protect himself from punishment by being obedient and will not hesitate to cooperate with the penal system.
In a totalitarian state, which is a mirror of his upbringing, this citizen can also carry out any form of torture or persecution without having a guilty conscience.
His "will" is completely identical to that of the government. Now that we have seen how easy it is for intellectuals in a dictatorship to be corrupted, it would be a vestige of aristocratic snobbery to think that only "the uneducated masses" are susceptible to propaganda. Both Hitler and Stalin had a surprisingly large number of enthusiastic followers among intellectuals. Our capacity to resist has nothing to do with our intelligence but with the degree of access to our true selves. Indeed, intelligence is capable of innumerable rationalizations when it comes to the matter of adaptation.
Educators have always known this and have exploited it for their own purposes, as the following proverb suggests: "The clever person gives in, the stupid one balks."
For example, we read in a work on child raising by Grünwald (1899): "I have never yet found willfulness in an intellectually advanced or exceptionally gifted child" (quoted in Rutschky). Such a child can, in later life, exhibit extraordinary acuity in criticizing the ideologies of his opponents--and in puberty even the views of his own parents-- because in these cases his intellectual powers can function without impairment.
Only within a group--such as one consisting of adherents of an ideology or a theoretical school--that represents the early family situation will this person on occasion still display a naïve submissiveness and uncritical attitude that completely believe his brilliance in other situations. Here, tragically, his early dependence upon tyrannical parents is preserved, a dependence that--in keeping with the program of "poisonous pedagogy"--goes undetected. This explains why Martin Heidegger, for example, who had no trouble in breaking with traditional philosophy and leaving behind the teachers of his adolescence, was not able to see the contradictions in Hitler's ideology that should have been obvious to someone of his intelligence. He responded to this ideology with an infantile fascination and devotion that brooked no criticism.” Having special talents is wonderful and it’s okay to cash in your talents for a living, but when people hide behind their talents, fame, and money to hide their own personal truth and keep themselves and others distracted from the truth and facts -- then you are misusing your talents -- and contributing for the lies to spread and silently or covertly you are part of all the violence and atrocities we are witnessing in our world. So if people think they are better than others, because they have special talents, they are being delusional.
