Artificial Intelligence
Yuval Noah Harari warns against AI’s ‘ability to manipulate people,’ pretend to be human
From LifeSiteNews
The transhumanist has highlighted the fact that AI has a real ability to deceive human beings. The question is, who is using AI, and for what purposes?
Transhumanist philosopher and World Economic Forum (WEF) senior adviser Yuval Noah Harari recently warned on MSNBC that AI can be used to manipulate us, having already been shown to be capable of impersonating a human.
He shared the story of how the AI tool GPT-4 was programmed to seek out a real human being — a TaskRabbit worker — to convince them to solve a CAPTCHA puzzle that is designed to distinguish between human beings and AI.
“It asked a human worker, ‘Please solve the CAPTCHA puzzle for me,’” shared Harari. “This is the interesting part. The human got suspicious. It asked GPT-4, ‘Why do you need somebody to do this for you? Are you a robot?’ GPT-4 told the human, ‘No, I’m not a robot, I have a vision impairment, so I can’t see the CAPTCHA puzzles, this is why I need help.’”
The human fell for the AI tool’s lie and completed the CAPTCHA puzzle on its behalf, he recounted, pointing out that this is evidence that AI is “able to manipulate people.”
He further warned that AI has a newfound ability to “understand and manipulate” human emotions, which he said could be employed for good purposes, such as in AI “teachers” and “doctors,” but could also be used to “sell us everything from products to politicians.”
Harari suggested that regulations by which AI would be legally required to identify itself for what it is — artificial intelligence — would be a desirable solution to this potential problem.
“AI should be welcome to human conversations as long as it identifies itself as AI,” said Harari, adding that this is something both Republicans and Democrats can get behind.
What the WEF adviser did not reveal during this particular interview, however, is that he believes speech on social media should be censored under the pretext of regulating AI.
He recently argued regarding social media, “The problem is not freedom of speech. The problem is that there are algorithms on Twitter, Facebook, and so forth that deliberately promote information that captures our attention even if it’s not true.”
Lamenting that algorithms are one way in which AI amplifies “falsehoods” on the internet, and claiming that AI “is capable of creating content by itself,” Harari ignored the fact that AI-generated content as well as algorithms are always ultimately a product of human programming.
Harari, an atheist, has previously claimed that AI can manipulate human beings to such a degree that it renders democratic functioning as well as free will obsolete. He explained to journalist Romi Noimark in 2020, “If you have enough data and you have enough computing power, you can understand people better than they understand themselves. And then you can manipulate them in ways which were previously impossible … And in such a situation, the old democratic situation stops functioning.
Acclaimed author and investigative reporter Leo Hohmann points to the human beings behind AI as the real manipulators and real danger to the masses, rather than characterizing AI itself as a prime danger.
Hohmann believes that AI “may very well turn out to be the nerve center of the coming beast system” — referring to a potential AI system with centralized access to intimate information about ourselves, as well as the power to manipulate or control our behavior — and that in the hands of globalists like the WEF, “its core mission is to eliminate free will in the human being.”
Artificial Intelligence
US House report exposes Biden admin push to use AI for censorship of ‘misinformation’
From LifeSiteNews
In a recent report the U.S. House Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government included proposed steps to ensure that future federal governments are not using AI for censorship, such as new legislation and decentralized development.
For a while now, emerging AI has been treated by the Biden-Harris administration, but also the EU, the UK, Canada, the UN, etc., as a scourge that powers dangerous forms of “disinformation” – and should be dealt with accordingly.
According to those governments/entities, the only “positive use” for AI as far as social media and online discourse go, would be to power more effective censorship (“moderation”).
A new report from the U.S. House Judiciary Committee and its Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government puts the emphasis on the push to use this technology for censorship as the explanation for the often disproportionate alarm over its role in “disinformation.”
We obtained a copy of the report for you here.
The interim report’s name spells out its authors’ views on this quite clearly: the document is called, “Censorship’s Next Frontier: The Federal Government’s Attempt to Control Artificial Intelligence to Suppress Free Speech.”
The report’s main premise is well-known – that AI is now being funded, developed, and used by the government and third parties to add speed and scale to their censorship, and that the outgoing administration has been putting pressure on AI developers to build censorship into their models.
What’s new are the proposed steps to remedy this situation and make sure that future federal governments are not using AI for censorship. To this end, the Committee wants to see new legislation passed in Congress, AI development that respects the First Amendment and is open, decentralized, and “pro-freedom.”
The report recommends legislation along four principles, focused on preserving American’s right to free speech. The first is that the government cannot be involved when decisions are made in private algorithms or datasets regarding “misinformation” or “bias.”
The government should also be prohibited from funding censorship-related research or collaboration with foreign entities on AI regulation that leads to censorship.
Lastly, “[a]void needless AI regulation that gives the government coercive leverage,” the document recommends.
The Committee notes the current state of affairs where the Biden-Harris administration made a number of direct moves to regulate the space to its political satisfaction via executive orders, but also by pushing its policy through by giving out grants via the National Science Foundation, once again, aimed at building AI tools that “combat misinformation.”
But “[i]f allowed to develop in a free and open manner, AI could dramatically expand Americans’ capacity to create knowledge and express themselves,” the report states.
Reprinted with permission from Reclaim The Net.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company’s campus in Nanjing, China
From the Canadian Energy Centre
Canada inches away from first large-scale LNG exports
The world’s leading producer of semiconductor chips wants access to Canadian energy as demand for artificial intelligence (AI) rapidly advances.
Specifically, Canadian liquefied natural gas (LNG).
The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) produces at least 90 per cent of advanced chips in the global market, powering tech giants like Apple and Nvidia.
Taiwanese companies together produce more than 60 per cent of chips used around the world.
That takes a lot of electricity – so much that TSMC alone is on track to consume nearly one-quarter of Taiwan’s energy demand by 2030, according to S&P Global.
“We are coming to the age of AI, and that is consuming more electricity demand than before,” said Harry Tseng, Taiwan’s representative in Canada, in a webcast hosted by Energy for a Secure Future.
According to Taiwan’s Energy Administration, today coal (42 per cent), natural gas (40 per cent), renewables (9.5 per cent) and nuclear (6.3 per cent), primarily supply the country’s electricity.
The government is working to phase out both nuclear energy and coal-fired power.
“We are trying to diversify the sources of power supply. We are looking at Canada and hoping that your natural gas, LNG, can help us,” Tseng said.
Canada is inches away from its first large-scale LNG exports, expected mainly to travel to Asia.
The Coastal GasLink pipeline connecting LNG Canada is now officially in commercial service, and the terminal’s owners are ramping up natural gas production to record rates, according to RBN Energy.
RBN analyst Martin King expects the first shipments to leave LNG Canada by early next year, setting up for commercial operations in mid-2025.
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