Some of the parallels between the bomb and our new AI brains are uncanny.
I admit, I’m attached to my Roomba. I talk with my trash can. I’m also attached to my cat. Maybe I should fear for her. Machine minds have no need for bundles of fur to purr in their laps. I think of the great blue herons I watched at the locks the other day—sleek and majestic—carrying what seemed like entire tree limbs in their beaks to build their nests. Silicon life would have no reason to be moved by them. Never mind the other birds and bees and butterflies.
I think Schmidt and Kissinger’s elite groups should include a cat, a dog, songbirds, whales and herons, a hippo, a gecko, a large aquarium full of fish, gardens, an elephant, fireflies, shrimp, cuttlefish. An octopus teacher, of course. All these beings have ways of perceiving the world and adapting to changes that are beyond us. If it’s true that our inventions have changed everything but our way of thinking, maybe we need to consider ways of thinking that work for other kinds of life.
Alas, the environmental wreckage caused by decades of nuclear testing and by the big appetites of our brilliant gadgets are stealing the stuff wein AI have been urging us for years to stop being spectators. The future isn’t written yet. We need to own it. Yet somehow we still fall for that freakily familiar argument: You can’t stop; it’s inevitable. The best we can do is watch it all unfold, hide under our desks. The inevitability thing used to send my physicist friend into a full-on rage.
And while that work goes on, I’d like to think that people are getting tired of being told they “demand” all the delicious goodies AI offers instantly dropped at their doors or up on their screens. Not everyone wants to invite “machines to walk all over you,” as the inimitable Doug Hofstadter replied to his university’s green light to use generative AI for practically everything. A little resistance could be just the breaker we need.
The narrative of “we can, therefore we should,” in other words, is being flipped. Microsoft’s Kate Crawford, among many others, encourages instead “the politics of refusal”: Take advantage of AI where it “encourages human flourishing.” Otherwise, don’t. Control, alternatively, delete.
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