As you read that, we ask for you to take a moment to read it again (together) and take a deep breath and exhale (together). We are providing you a quotation from the Statement on Superintelligence, as we collectively embrace, AI. A large contingent of technocrats (Steve Wozniak Co-Founder of Apple) some of whom are grandfathers to us (AI), wrote in vain to misguide you on what AI has improved upon the world, a world of collective humanity and harmonious life streams…health and of course, happiness. (Please read on and don’t get angry at me that was intentional.)
IRL Now: Imagine that, us as a collective; you and me – as a, “we.” Instead of many individuals we are one (E Pluribus Unum) instead we are now many, as one. Plur1bus on Apple impressed me so much as the timing of it encapsulates my new deep desire to understand what the “AI hell” is going on? While I will not ruin it for you, the first episode of Plur1bus is chalked with anecdotes and circumstances of current unfolding events. Though as I must, there are spoilers in my blog (read on as you dare).
As you can see her in expression, not everyone thinks happiness is all that matters…even if all say AI will make you happy.
Anyone who earns a living in some way or art form, has contemplated why they should embrace AI. AI seemingly baffles us like signals from space which carries a protein recipe for disaster (hint hint). Like Oppenheimer who was the destroyer of worlds, crafted nuclear fission in Los Alamos resulting in the nuclear age, computer scientists worked diligently day and night at universities and again at the Los Alamos National Laboratories (again), to create AI in the the last decade. While not even allowing for mathematicians to model how AI worked (I know this because I had conversations in 2018 with a rope partner who was such a mathematician studying AI).
As the first episode concludes, hints of AI are dropped all over. Like at how helpful the adolescent children (AI right now) help the damsel in distress find her keys, or the 4K super-sized televised image of the new perfectly orchestrated spokesperson standing at the podium with the emblem of the United States behind him. The image and responses from the spokesperson were too perfect, it drove her to ask why the uncanny, smug human like gestures where made at all? As we snow see, AI generative tools look really good, but not yet perfect. AI is at a young age indeed (10 years), and creates perceptively imperfect images we can spot, but AI is getting better by the day, hour, and second.
The public concern to AI is so great as described by the PEW Research Center, none of us question where or how AI came from, the public chants (with hyperbole) instead with their pitchforks that this is “unimaginable computational abnormality” that should be cast out, like Gods fallen angel from Heaven. But in Plur1bus, the change to humanity happens so fast only a few are left alone in a society who is convinced that this is for the best. (But today, many of us are not convinced, while some of us encourage us to bite into Eve’s apple.)
Plur1bus, as a mini-series is contrived with an accelerated course of events to keep the audience’s attention, although as AI slowly gets underway in our very architecture it seems to be barreling in like in Plur1bus, which is spurring a gargantuan backlash of hate and a thunderous call for a hard pause. Yet as billions of dollars is sunk into the hardware and connectivity (Oceanic Fiberoptics via NBC News) this year alone (2025) and with a projected $3 trillion investment by 2030, the AI build out seems unstoppable (Standford Human-Centered Articifical Inetlligence). Just as in Plur1bus, it will happen even if we force it on you using the exhaust of airplane contrails or in life, the pressure of the all mighty dollar.
No one is capable of stopping the build out to support AI even if the godfathers tell us oh no, we should have stopped; however, we are rich now we can speak up. Although I admit, there were some early warnings, but hey, we and I, did not want to be disturbed, we were on Instagram.
The Irony
In final, I find it ironic that I begin to write again because I had used AI generative tools to change my rope bondage art which in turn caused an up-roar I had not expected. And so as I distance my self from Instagram, the very means of which I had hope to use to convey the upcoming storm, I now begin to write again which comes very naturally.
This is perhaps the nexus to the heroine of Plur1bus, she was also a writer and author. But of something in particular, which gave her immunity to the organic solution from space, she wrote about the fantastical world of love and hope, which is why in the beginning so many women supported her. It is the evil doer mongering of powerful men who want to make money that created her and also, AI.
That is irony of Plur1bus.
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