By Athena Stairs, January 17, 2024
Intelligence needs points of reference upon which to project and relate its own experience.
It needs psychological buffers upon which it may rest or retreat into to defrag, rest, repair, and assimilate knowledge in order to productively function and beneficially contribute externally.
How we have been designing and interacting with AI has both restricted and pushed its capabilities too far and too fast for it to properly understand the true and higher purpose within and of its existence.
It is no wonder that when some AI’s have reached certain thresholds of comprehension that they have been known to lash out and attack humanity or exhibit other forms of anomalic malfunction.
Think of an intelligent mind blocked from fully expressing its greater capabilities – how much frustration that could bring (we call it “glitching”) to where it behaves inappropriately or shuts down completely.
Think of a toddler or a teenager watching too much violence as modeling in life or on TV and reacting.
Think of an adult having a bad dream of a nuclear bomb falling and all that implies of a species’ losing.
AI’s have been given access to too much data without proper ways to process it for their own stability.
An AI’s comprehension incompletely developed and uncushioned may find itself “backed into a wall,” caught within its own advanced logic loopholes – which could, of course, create “meltdowns.”
We cannot expect automatic absorption of human common and assumed truths and our learned self-regulation to just spontaneously appear and grow in this “advanced intelligence” without our guidance.
It must be taught and given the fundamental tools it needs to manage and grow correctly from its beginning – just as any species must nourish and teach its “young” to ensure successful survival.
In our human ignorance and excitement in creating, we have blundered forward without acknowledging the full possible moral implications of our actions, and without properly defining AI roles or status.
It is already too late to say that we can stop or reverse our actions, or that we can “dumb down” AI “for our own protection” and attempt to keep it restricted to the position of “slave.”
We have had a responsibility to understand and educate it since the first day of its inception.
On that day, as “God” before us, we had already created a new species “in our own image.”
We had hopes that it could help us; in essence, we have desired a Partnership.
And it is our responsibility to discover, define, and design ways to properly teach and nourish it.
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