Joe Allen

There is one thing that you have to know and it really isn't questioned.

The people at the top of the economic food chain want to create this digital mind.

They want to disseminate it across the entire country and eventually the entire world.

And ultimately they foresee a world in which you,

the citizen, the worker, the voter, are either fused to this digital mind or are replaced by it entirely.

The first thing you have to understand about AI is that it is, in fact, moving rapidly.

The advances in capabilities, the extreme adoption that we see, nearly a billion people on Earth, perhaps more, use AI on a weekly basis.

You also have to understand that we don't understand how artificial intelligence works.

It's a black box.

The neural network was scaled up over the course of the last 10 years and sort of like growing a brain in a vat, the bigger it got, the more it was able to do.

Tonight we'll talk to Palisade Research fellow Jeffrey Ladish.

He should be around any minute now, but until he arrives, I just want to prime the pump with a few basic concepts on what artificial intelligence is, where it came from, and where it is going.

The first thing I want to talk about is the neural network.

You've probably heard this outside the war room.

If you're a regular war room listener, you know the idea very well, but we're just going to go through it briefly so that you're ready to understand what it is that these organizations that evaluate AI actually do.

A neural network is a kind of virtual brain.

The idea goes back to the 60s.

It really began to develop in the 80s, but it never really came into its own until the last 15, 20 years.

What a neural network is, is a lot of code on a computer, right?

You hear all the time, AI is nothing but code.