What is this seemingly irrational push to bring about AGI (Artificial General Intelligence)? Though even the transhumanist pundits warn as do the tech gurus that we do not yet understand the implications of the scientific explosion they are running headlong into its discovery. Are there wisdoms beyond that of human understanding, especially those with the power to compel remotely our embrace of things that would potentially lead to our short-order demise? To what benefit would these compelling voices want AI now as opposed to years from now when we have better; gauged, understood and prepared for the unexpected outcomes?

What is artificial general intelligence and why is it potentially hazardous to the human race? Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is a theoretical form of AI where a machine would have an intelligence equaled to humans AGI would have the ability to perceive, learn, and carry out intellectual tasks in a range of domains, such as natural language processing, reasoning, planning, and knowledge representation  AGI would also have a self-aware consciousness and the ability to mimic human behavior and thought processes. Bing.com and from https://www.ibm.com/topics/artificial-intelligence

Typical of the human species our leaders claim we need to discover AGI to stay ahead of our enemies or to save the human race from extinction. The same arguments used for nuclear power yet most nations have prohibited the use of that power not having the technology or power themselves to control the implications. When will we as a people, not just an elite monarchy, accept the dire potentiality of this discovery and put on the brakes before it is too late. For example; what if a machine decides in its awareness that humans are a danger to its continued existence? What will they do and what will we do about wha they do?

Evidence of this real potential is the race by big tech companies to own every database of knowledge and those platforms where people would be educated to these dangers or those social platforms where this discovery may be rightly questioned? Google has recently bought WordPress, this platform on which I have had such a questioning blog for almost 13 years. Will this purchase soon end my inquiry? What happens to humanity when they discover AGI and it decides we don’t need to know?

I am going to discuss the Christian perspective of this information on Zoom, another platform owned by Big Tech in this case Chinese big tech.