Joe Allen

You see the split

not just in what is right and what is wrong, but what is real and what is not real.

And this is real video evidence.

Imagine a world in which half

three quarters of the videos on the internet are simply deep fakes.

And they are so close to reality.

They're so photo or video realistic that there's really no way for the human eye or the human mind to detect the difference.

The only recourse you have is to turn to an AI to ask, is this real?

I've talked about the religious implications of artificial intelligence for years.

If there is any one question that religion answers that humans are yearning for eternally, what is real?

What we see are the wealthiest men on earth empowered by the most powerful government on earth, putting their algorithmic systems, their non-human minds forward as the ultimate arbiter of what is and isn't real.

And if you think that the fight in Minneapolis is going to spark off into something like another subsequent string of national tragedies, imagine two, three, four years on down the road if these companies are not restrained, if the flow of AI slop and deep fakes is not stopped.

what it looks like when we're all scrambling to decide what is real and what is not, while half or more of our countrymen are activated by videos, text, fabricated evidence, deepfakes that have encouraged them to hate their fellow Americans.

It's a dystopian idea, one that I don't think we are necessarily going to experience in its fullness.

but some portion of it is already happening.

The seeds of this dystopia have already sprouted, and it's up to us

on the individual level, on the communal level, to push back on the institutional level to say, this is not how our companies, our churches, our government agencies are going to be run at the behest of algorithms.

And of course, at the political level, by putting in place regulation and perhaps even banning certain levels or certain uses of artificial intelligence to at least give humanity a fighting chance

in this cosmic war against the machine.

Beyond the social and psychological problems, you have the economic problems.