Let us make AI in our image

"Let us make humankind in our image, after our likeness."
Genesis 1:26

  • Each creation inherits the nature of its creator
  • Do we take responsiblity for our creation?

The Luddites

Luddites

1811 - 1816, Textile workers in England destroyed mechanical looms

  • Skilled artisans were replaced loom operators
  • Wages collapsed
  • Factory owners captured productivity gains

Consequences

  • Mill owners trespassed protesters
  • British government deployed 12,000 troops to protect factories
  • Parliament made breaking machinery punishable by 💀 penalty
  • Killing workers was protecting property
  • "Criminals" were deported to Australia

The pattern continues

  • New technology enables labor to be done faster & cheaper
  • Owners capture gains
  • Workers bear losses
  • Laws protect capital, not people
  • State uses violence to suppress voices
  • We blame technology, not systems of power

1. What is Artificial Intelligence?

Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Deep Learning Neural Language LLM

2. AI is Remarkably Human

Critiques of AI are critiques of humanity

"AI doesn't really understand what you teach it"

It's a context machine. After a few billion text examples, it learns that there is a semantic difference between a clear blue skies and dark, ominous clouds.

"AI just predicts the next word"

If I start a sentence with "How are...", your brain is filling in gaps and context before I finish the word.

"AI doesn't remember; it keeps context and runs compaction algorithms"

How, exactly is this different from how human memory works?

"AI can't be creative"

"AI can be manipulated with the right prompts"

"AI is biased"

"AI makes confident mistakes"

Seriously?

3. Why LLMs Hallucinate

4. AI Will Not Take Jobs...

... But Capitalists Will

5. Value = Impact

6. Energy and Environmental Impact

xAI Colossus, Memphis, TN

xAI Colossus Data Center, Memphis, TN

Steve Jones, Southern Environmental Law Center

7. Laws and Regulations

Conclusion

We made AI like us

  • Intelligence AND bias
  • Creativity AND shortcuts
  • Problem-solving AND mistakes

AI reveals that we are biological machines. We are uncomfortable because AI is a mirror.

If we want ethical AI...

  • We must protect workers and labor
  • We must have clean energy laws
  • We must eliminate the centuries of human biases that fed the training data
  • We must create an ethical society

Social media was the great connector...

... AI is the great accelerator

Is this version of humanity worth accelerating?

The challenge is not technical, it's moral