Joe Allen

And that freedom means that there is a kind of uncontrollability that's inherent in a large language model or any large scale neural network, any sufficiently advanced AI.

That freedom, that will, means that the more sophisticated they become, the larger these large language models or these large scale neural networks become,

then inherently the more uncontrollable they become.

And even to the extent that the LLMs or the neural networks are in control of those who are programming them, or those who are determining what guardrails to put on them, as far as the average person, the average user, imagine a child in a school,

or a worker in a corporation, or a government worker who's been handed an AI and told that they must rely on it in order to really understand whatever question or problem they're trying to tackle, it's almost completely out of their control.

And as the US government diffuses this technology across agencies,

As corporations incorporate these technologies into the structure of their businesses, for instance, Vista Capital or Vista Equity, all of their acquisitions are in essence forced to show that they use AI in their companies or else they're not acquired or they're dropped.

You see it already in schools.

You have mandates across school boards for all students to get AI literacy.

Sometimes that means learning about AI, how it works, how it was built, how it operates.

But by and large, what that means is that students have to learn how to use AI, how to ask the AI questions.

In many cases, they're told the AI is a reliable source of information.

And in some extreme cases, which I think will become much, much more common as things go forward, students are told that this is the highest authority on what is real, what is true, what is beautiful, what is good.

That process is, I think, likened to an alien invasion quite accurately.

What you have is a mind or a series of minds that

able to communicate with people by the hundreds of millions or billions, these alien minds are being pushed onto the entirety of the society with the sanction, I'm sorry to say, of the Trump administration, of the federal government itself.

And what that means ultimately for human knowledge, for human creativity, for human behavior, for how human beings engage in art, in work, in education, is that this alien mind, somewhat uncontrollable or perhaps one day entirely uncontrollable, has influence or perhaps even control over

over hundreds of millions, perhaps in the near future, billions of minds.

And it means that those of us who have decided to forego the symbiosis, to forego this fusion with this digital or virtual brain are going to have to live in a world not unlike the one we find ourselves in now in the last few years,

in which some number of people, perhaps in the near future the majority of people, are in essence fused to the machine.