Let’s get the facts out before dealing with artificial intelligence, AI. AI has been around before Alan Turing. Turing was the father of modern computer science. During WWII, he decoded the encryptions from the German Enigma machine and created the Turing Test, which was the basis for discovering whether AI had become a human-thinking computer. In 1951, Turing said, “If a machine can think, it might think more intelligently than we can. And then where would we be?”

I taught one of my favorite senior-level college classes, which addressed various AI issues two decades ago. The textbook dealt with several professors at Carnegie Mellon University exploring the potentiality of creating AI. Back then, there was hardly a student that bought into AI.

Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species a century and a half ago, in which he discussed the ongoing evolution of all species, including Homo sapiens. If someone had said to Darwin, “Hey, Chuck, in 2024, humans will be heavily involved with AI.” That comment would be beyond the pale for Darwin. He couldn’t imagine we would be replaced by the robots we created.

“Hey, Chuck...”

However, AI is many-faceted. AIs exist in all sorts of human endeavors, like politics. Stalin used a primitive AI to eliminate one of his followers he didn’t trust. Look what he did with the following photo.

Here one day and gone the next.

This photo is of me, but I used the opposite technique.

This photo is of me.

However, we are living in 2024. We see that Trump, like Stalin, adapts to reality through videos. Between today and sometime in the future, we will grasp and address issues that emerge from AI. Today, we have a real and present danger facing us.

Trump attempted an insurrection. The argument about AIs and robots is predicated upon the assumption that humans are mentally stable, moral, and ethical. If we aren’t, we will create robots resembling us.

Could AIs and robots create an insurrection like 1/6? That remains an open question. Trump did, and he and his minions behaved like an AI insurrection. Worrying about AI taking over the world might occur isn’t the pressing question today. It is whether Trump takes over America.

Our wannabe leader

The following video clip is of the three Republican leaders in Congress: Mitch McConnell, Kevin McCarthy, and Lindsey Graham.

Those three Republican leaders spoke truth to power...back then. Nevertheless, when they had a chance with two impeachments of Trump, all three feared to vote for impeachment. Had McConnell voted for impeachment in the Senate, we could have avoided where we are today. This form of AI, which amends history, goes beyond changing a photo. It amends what they said. They forgot what Shakespeare wrote, “Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.” They also never read what George Santayana wrote, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

This video deals with Ray Kurzweil on AI and singularity.

Michio Kaku discusses AI-Quantum.

Seth Meyers addresses AI and Trump.