AI is a monster.
To paraphrase the fictitious Admiral Painter1, “This business will get out of control! It will get out of control and we’ll be lucky to live through it!” As I’ve reported here previously, even the people who create and engineer AI and create the algorithms don’t know how AI learning occurs. They don’t know the limits to the learning, if there are any. They don’t understand the long term process of advanced machine learning once it starts.
I will link an article in the footnotes below the audio line regarding Trump’s AI proposals and the bill that may come from them2. DJT says he wants to regulate AI. But nowhere in the Constitution is he granted power to do that. All powers the government has are enumerated in the Constitution. If they aren’t listed, the government doesn’t have the power. If Congress writes a law giving him such power, that law would be unconstitutional on its face. Not that such restriction ever meant anything in DC. And there’ s the rub.
Do you remember Robert F. Kennedy Jr maxims on totalitarianism?
Once you grant a government a power, it will never relinquish it without a fight.
If a government can abuse a power, it WILL.
You cannot comply your way out of totalitarianism.
This isn’t to say DJT will necessarily abuse power of AI. He may be honestly motivated. I believe he is. But his successors eventually WILL take every advantage. Who could resist such power over everything? I’ll give you a detailed, real-word example of what I am talking about. Then we can apply the lessons to assertive government control to AI.
Look what the government has done with healthcare. That all started with people shouting, “there ought to be a law”.
In lieu of cash, and in order to avoid the ridiculous taxes of the pre-JFK days, some well-paid executives told employers to provide non-cash benefits. Company cars, generous expense accounts, even company planes. Eventually somebody thought to provide life and health insurance, instead of cash. And that is where things started to go sideways.
When unions caught wind of this gimme for the executives, they thought the rank and file were automatically entitled to the same thing. Never mind they didn’t pay the confiscatory taxes the executives were paying. The union bosses saw it as another way to fatten their own paydays.
So far, not so bad. Insurance back then was for catastrophic illness and injuries, not stitches and shots. The idea was to keep you from going broke if you got seriously ill.
Soon, insurance as a standard factor of being employed became the norm. As the population felt more and more entitled, they started to question why everything medical wasn’t covered by medical insurance. There ought to be a law, right?
Well.
Political whores being what they are, and not caring what they knew government meddling would do to the cost of insurance, started passing bills to get this and that added to the list of things insurance companies MUST cover. These were called mandates or mandated coverage.
The immediate result was insurance became more expensive. Insurance compensated by increasing the number of things they would deny. Employers obviously would pay an employee a little less if they had to pay more to insure them. Much to the joy of lawyers and political whores, insurance policies became ever more Byzantine.
The mandates got so out of hand that the idea of government control over the insurance industry actually started to appeal to stupid people. BJ Bill’s wife took a shot at it in the 90’s. There weren’t enough stupid people yet to pass it. And obviously not enough goodies for either cronies or politicians in the deal.
By 2012, there were enough stupid people. And Barry O’s people devised a plan so opaque and complex, so full of goodies for politicians (who were exempt from requirements), and so attractive to the winners picked to provide the insurance, that the idea passed.
It didn’t pass legally. If they had done it legally the bill never would have made it out of conference. Pelosi, the snake, declared that congress deemed to have voted it out. There is no such thing. And the bill passed with the first massive abuse of the reconciliation process. This is a process by which congress irons out the nickles and dimes of a spending bill - smooths out rounding errors. But in this case, our utterly corrupt legislature used reconciliation to take over 1/6th of our economy.
Today, reconciliation has supplanted the 60 vote rule on massive spending. I’m sure the record shows that there were honest people warning that reconciliation, as written, was going to come back and bite us on the ass.
The immediate result of Obamacare was MASSIVE increases in premiums for people using legitimate insurance. And MASSIVE increases in spending for those who enrolled on government insurance give-aways.
The AFFORDABLE CARE ACT was so affordable Congress was forced almost immediately to authorized subsidies to help most people pay for their insurance. We are fighting over renewing that right now. What we should be doing is writing a bill to get the government completely OUT of the insurance business and letting the free market bring prices down to a reasonable level. You would see costs plummet.
But the government will not give up their power over the insurance industry voluntarily as we’ve established. So, unless we take it back by force, we will never see real world, manageable healthcare costs again.
And so it WILL be with AI and the power it promises to those who control it - if indeed it will be controllable. That remains to be seen. And by the time we find that out, it may be too late.
Smart cities will become inevitable. You’ll hardly notice it occurring. City, state of federal government will add a camera here, a sensor there. Certain businesses will be incentivized to come into your local area, others to relocate elsewhere. This will be for the greater good, and efficiency, they’ll say.
You will drive electric cars and little hybrid beaters. This, you’ll be told is to save the environment. And why would you need a big scary car. Everything you “need” is within a 15 minute walk from your apartment!
In the meantime, more and more controls will be foisted onBut the businesses won’t be moved to create self-contained villages where you won’t “need” to travel more then a few minutes to meet all your “needs” as they are recognized by the AI god. This will be to simplify tracking and the system. More cameras, more sensors, for your security. Eventually, everyone will have their own specific work schedule because that which watches everything will have calculated the most efficient way to move everyone through the smart city. Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) will be a certainty in this scenario. You will be told it is just to make you purchasing more convenient. The system will know what you’ve added to your cart. And batta bing, off you go!
control. They won’t care about your convenience.
The CBDC won’t be for your convenience. It WILL be controllable. If you buck the system or you don’t behave as the algorithm dictates, you will find your purchasing power restricted, until you fall back in line.
The cars won’t help the environment. Certainly the electric cars won’t. They are among the worst things we’ve ever created in terms of environmental responsibility. No, they will eventually tell you, because the algorithm said so, that you cannot travel more than x miles from your assigned enclave. If you do, OnStar will shut your older car down. AI will take over and redirect your car to an authorized space. Do this more than once and you’ll see you CBDC account punished.
The backbone of “smart cities” will be surveillance and control provided by AI. Everything you do outside of breathing and taking a dump will be factored by AI. Everything will eventually, for the greater good of course, be heavily throttled by the system in favor of those in control, who are exempt from it.
But these electronic prisons are just one example of how AI will infest every aspect of our lives. It goes way beyond just how you will live on your smart city. But those who wield the power, those with access to the AI controls will have the power to do it all.
Don’t take my word for it. The Davos/WEF cult has at one time or another laid out this very same program, along with a long list of other abuses. They meet regularly with mayors from all over the world; dozens of them from all the major cities. On of those gatherings is called Urban Transformation Summits. At these conclaves they discuss doing the very things I listed above. THEY’RE SERIOUS! And the Davos crowd think they, as elites (bankers, politicians, Hollywood show folk, mobbed up union bosses) think they should rule over this insanity. They also say they will be exempt from those rules as they are the elites. John Kerry, one of this band of lunatics calls himself and the others a “select group of human beings". I didn’t select these assholes, did you? But it is their intention to run your lives.
This kind of social engineering is not something we can try and dump if we don’t like it. Remember RFKJ’s rule first rule: Once government gains a power, it won’t give it up.
Now, put into the hands of someone, even one who may consider himself upstanding and honest, the ability to have a docile society where destabilizing behavior can be spotted and eliminated quicker than a game of whack-a-mole, the temptation to play god and create “utopia” will be overwhelming.
In the hands of lesser people, almost ALL of the political class, any such power would absolutely redound in the worst behavior. Look at the all the abuses in just the insurance example, above. The thing that will keep that pig in place is money washing back and forth between the politicians and insurance companies. All adjustments to date have been in the favor of preserving the pig. Look at education. Look at Social Security from which the GOVERNMENT has looted every single dime. Review the history of the Obama administration with Fast and Furious, Smash and Grab and IRS persecuting political opponents (and that is a tiny list of his abuses).
This is the second maxim in play. If a government can abuse a power - it WILL. With just the few programs and scandals mentioned today, would you trust those very same people, utterly submissive to Davos, to NOT take advantage of AI for their own power? For a chance at absolute power?
And we can’t forget the third maxim: You cannot comply your way out of totalitarianism.
This is all intended to happen by many of the very people we are talking about. Once your town or business or political group is hooked by this system, there will be NO way around it. Your smart phone, Alexa, Ring doorbell or security system if you have one, your laptop, your car…they will ALL rat you out if you deviate from the master plan. You will be a serf. Rebellion won’t be a viable option, unless you can do it naked, in the woods.
So you must rebel preemptively. Before your town puts up another red light camera or security camera on a street, you fight back. You force them to define the way it will be used so narrowly that a red light camera can’t bust you for driving nude with a joint in your hand. The law YOU insist on will say that camera is for that red light compliance only. That camera will never be networked beyond the local police station.
Before another bank buys up tracts of housing or the town has more “low-income” housing built, you go to your zoning authority and fight to rezone every place you possibly can to NOT be rental property. Make sure there will be no area wide smart city concept involved. And tell the banks they can’t do real estate business in your town.
Fight to make sure your whole town remains autonomous from any city, state or national network of electronic, passive, wide net monitoring.
Well, what about the safety of our streets, right? Won’t this stuff be there for our security? No, it will not. While some sense of security may be a factor, this stuff will be networked to control you. A camera can’t save your life. It can only give people something to look at after you’ve been beaten, robbed or shot. Then they might even find the perp. That’s a side benefit. The intent of AI and widespread monitoring will be to keep YOU in line.
Real security is knowing your neighbors, making friends, walking your street, keeping in contact with those around you. And THAT is the antithesis of the smart city prison system.
Be a good neighbor. And fight like hell to never be a good serf.
Carry on smartly! Cheers!
Played brilliantly by Fred Thompson in The Hunt for Red October.
