A Tale of Two Phenomenologies: Artificial Intelligence and the Future: Toward a Better Understanding of Cosmology, Science Fiction, and Science Fiction

Too often, it seems like the minds pushing AI watched too much Trek and not enough Kubrick. The hype is often focused on things Artificial Intelligence can do, such as art, music, and term papers. Others are left to alert us of the dangers of using artificial intelligence without authorization, regurgitating racist stereotypes, or just evolving too quickly. It’s never before been so uncomfortable to have optimism and pessimism mixed up.

The venue for the Summit paid homage to Alan Turing, the British mathematician who did foundational work on both computing and AI, and who helped the Allies break Nazi codes during the Second World War by developing early computing devices. (A previous UK government apologized in 2009 for the way Turing was prosecuted for being gay in 1952.)

When a senior is kicked off of his health plan due to a faulty computer program is it not an issue for him? Is it realistic for a woman to be threatened by her abusive partner with explicit deepfake photographs?

Predicting the future and warning against it has been what science fiction is about for decades. Even as Star Trek envisioned the wonders of flip phones and iPads, Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash warned of the dystopian nature of the metaverse.

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The White House deputy chief of staff told the Associated Press that the president was “as impressed and alarmed as anyone” after learning about artificial intelligence. He saw fake images and voice clones. He’d also watched Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part One at Camp David.

WIRED called Dead Rekoning the perfectAI panic movie. The Entity is an Artificial Intelligence that is becoming sentient and threatens to use its all knowing intelligence to control military powers all over the world. Marah Eakin wrote for WIRED earlier this year that it is the ideal paranoia litmus test. Something rises to the level of Big Bad, which is what people are most scared about right now. The Entity must be horrifying for someone like President Biden, who knows that the world over is about brinkmanship. It also begs the question: Did no one watch The Terminator?

As ChatGPT’s first birthday approaches, presents are rolling in for the large language model that rocked the world. President Joe Biden has issued an executive order on safe, secured, and trustworthy development and use of artificial intelligence. And UK prime minister Rishi Sunak threw a party with a cool extinction-of-the-human-race theme, wrapped up with a 28-country agreement (counting the EU as a single country) promising international cooperation to develop AI responsibly. Happy birthday!

It has been over fifty years since the first credible studies predicted disastrous climate change. Now that the water is lapping at our feet and the heat is making many people homeless, the international order hasn’t stopped the release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The second in line to the presidency is a climate denier. Will the regulation of ITprogress any better?

There is not a firm legal backing for regulations and mandates that may come from the plan, and some executive orders are often overturned by the courts, and Congress is contemplating its own artificial intelligence regulation. Don’t hold your breath, as there is likely to be a government shutdown. Many of Biden’s remedies are dependent on self-regulation by the industry that is under examination, whose big powers had input into the initiative.