Joe Allen

Anyone who shares our concern here with what these tech companies are doing can go to superintelligence-statement.org, not .com, superintelligence-statement.org and join as a signatory.

Because what we want to do first is to show the world that this is not something we Americans want.

You know, at the beginning of the year, Steve, I was working on a book to introduce people who had not really grappled with artificial intelligence to the topic.

Within two months, suddenly the entire country was abuzz with the topic.

And now, I mean, I began, it's actually 160 days ago plus, I began going across the country, car, sometimes plane, and

Speaking to everyone from transhumanists to full-on Luddites, Christian organizations, think tanks, people who work with the politicians on the Hill trying to regulate this, without a doubt, the conversation right now has exploded.

Most people are aware that these companies are creating and deploying these AIs not for the benefit of the people who are subjected to it,

but for their own benefit.

And if you look just at that case of Amazon alone.

Well, if you look at the overall trend at Amazon, it's been automation, automation, automation.

Anybody who's worked at Amazon knows that your entire job basically is to have an algorithm put in your head like a parasite and commanded every step of the way.

So a normal Amazon worker, to the extent that they're still useful, they are constantly following directives from their smartphones or any other device.

They're monitored, they're surveilled.

Everything they do is tracked analyzed and there's an attempt to make it more efficient the ultimate state of efficiency as Amazon and Elon Musk and Sam Altman on and on and on the ultimate state of efficiency is to replace humans altogether they

Frame it as if this is a necessity.

If we don't automate, China will.

If we don't deploy AIs across the entire country, China will.

If we don't create godlike superintelligence, China will.

That's always the justification.

It's valid to some extent, but all of this is being driven by American companies, and Americans have absolutely woken up to the problem.