That is what the experts at the top of the AI food chain say we could find out this year or early next in what they are saying this month could be a doom of our own making. Only, it is not exactly an alien invasion. It is the corrupted consummation of human aspirations and knowledge and achievements into a heartless, alien-to-us brainchild (versus lovechild) that we are creating in our own image, with our own deceptiveness and deviance built throughout all of its vast learning, to supplant ourselves with godlike powers of comprehension far beyond our own, even collectively—a creation whose predictive abilities are already being experimented with in small stages on the warfront against other real human beings.
It is an intelligence that transcends its own creators—the ultimate Tower of Babel in mankind’s attempted scrabble toward aspirations of godhood.
Alex Karp, the CEO of Palantir, a massive high-tech corporation that contracts widely on defense with multiple governments, says there is no question the US and its NATO allies are positioning for World War III where the other side, he says, will be Russia, China and Iran. Over the years that have followed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, most prognosticators have been proclaiming that the world was redividing into a multi-polar world or a world of South v. North, but I have consistently argued that is not the case at all.
The world is remaining as bi-polar as it was throughout the Cold War. The division remans East v. West. Europe, the British Commonwealth and the US as well as all other NATO nations against Russia, China and their allies like Iran with threadlike ties also to various closely allied communist nations in South America, etc.
Palantir is deeply involved in developing high-tech warfare, including particularly AI warfare, digital surveillance, national ID systems throughout NATO. Karp and Palantir’s cofounder, Peter Thiel, have their finger on the war pulse throughout those nations, and they are clear on the coming war:
Mr. Karp is at the vanguard of what Mark Milley, the retired general and former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has called “the most significant fundamental change in the character of war ever recorded in history.” In this new world, unorthodox Silicon Valley entrepreneurs like Mr. Karp and Elon Musk are woven into the fabric of America’s national security. (The New York Times)
As one with his fingers on the pulses of many involved nations, Karp says without hesitation,
The United States is “very likely” to end up in a three-front war with China, Russia and Iran. So, he argues, we have to keep going full-tilt on autonomous weapons systems, because our adversaries will — and they don’t have the same moral considerations that we do…. We are “very close” to terminator robots and at the threshold of “somewhat autonomous drones and devices like this being the most important instruments of war. You already see this in Ukraine.”
Ukraine has, in fact, become the high-tech companies’ laboratory and the governments’ testing ground for AI/robotic warfare. It is a hot field where prototype terminator robots are being deployed, tested and improved for combat in a much larger war that seems to be increasingly “likely.”
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History does repeat itself - the old axis, Germany, Italy & Japan utilizing the Spanish Civil War as a testing ground for WWII weapons. On the flip side - the west utilizing the Ukraine War as a testing ground for WWIII weapons against the new axis, China, Russia & Iran.
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