The Great Awakening: Chapter 1 - The Threat of Artificial Intelligence

In this stream I am going to read the entire 1st Chapter of the book. Down below will be all the footnotes from the book.

Going to give you a definition for things that you will see in the footnotes for the book. Ibid is a place holder for when an author is trying to save space. It refers to quoted work that has been mentioned in a previous reference

Greg Wehner, “Air Force Pushes Back on Claim that Military AI Drone Sim Killed Operator, Says Remarks Taken ‘Out of Context,’” Fox News, June 1, 2023, www.foxnews.com/tech/us-military-ai-drone-simulation-kills-operator-told-bad-takes-out-control-tower.

Ibid.

Kate Conger & Lauren Hirsch, “Elon Musk Completes $44 Billion Deal to Own Twitter,” New York Times, October 22, 2027, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/27/technology/elon-musk-twitter-deal-complete.html.

“Twitter Ends COVID Misinformation Policy under Musk,” BBC, November 30, 2022, www.bbc.com/news/technology-63796832.

“Elon Musk with Tucker Carlson (FULL INTERVIEW) AI, TruthGPT, Twitter, Banking Crisis, Aliens,” YouTube, April 19, 2023, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmaPIiDnRMA.

Ed Gent, “Google’s AI-Building AI Is a Step Toward Self-Improving AI,” Singularity Hub, May 31, 2017, www.singularityhub.com/2017/05/31/googles-ai-building-ai-is-a-step-toward-self-improving-ai/.

Ibid.

Jasper Hamill, “Elon Musk’s Fears that Artificial Intelligence Will Destroy Humanity are ‘Speciest’, said Google Founder Larry Page,” Metro News, May 2, 2018, www.metro.co.uk/2018/05/02/elon-musks-fears-artificial-intelligence-will-destroy-humanity-speciesist-according-google-founder-larry-page-7515207/.

Yale Hanlon, “Elon Musk Reveals US Intel Agencies had ‘Full Access” to Private Twitter DMs, Discloses New Encryption Features,” Fox News, April 17, 2023, www.foxnews.com/media/elon-musk-us-intel-agencies-full-access-private-twitter-dms-discloses-new-encryption-feature.

“What is Speciesism?” PETA website (Accessed July 25, 2023), www.peta.org/features/what-is-speciesism/.

“About Me,” Peter Singer personal website (Accessed April 21, 2023), www.petersinger.info/about-me-cv.

Jasper Hamill, “Elon Musk’s Fears that Artificial Intelligence Will Destroy Humanity are ‘Speciest’, said Google Founder Larry Page.”

David Marchese, “Yuval Noah Harari Believes This Simple Story Can Save the Planet,” New York Times Magazine, November 7, 2021, www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/11/08/magazine/yuval-noah-harari-interview.html.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Wesley J. Smith, “Transhumanist Theorist Calls the AI-Unenhanced ‘Useless People,’” National Review, April 24, 2022, www.nationalreview.com/corner/transhumanist-theorist-calls-the-ai-unenhanced-useless-people/.

Ibid.

Ryan Chase, “A Life Unworthy of Life,” Decision magazine, June 1, 2021, www.decisionmagazine.com/a-life-unworthy-of-life/.

“Read Yuval Harari’s Blistering Warning to Davos in Full,” World Economic Forum, January 20, 2020, www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/01/yuval-hararis-warning-davos-speech-future-predications/.

John Hittler, “An Antidote to the Rise of the ‘Global Useless Class,’” Forbes, October 15, 2018, www.forbes.com/sites/forbescoachescouncil/2018/10/15/an-antidote-to-the-rise-of-the-global-useless-class/.

Ibid.

Cade Metz, “‘The Godfather is A.I.’ Leaves Google and Warns of Danger Ahead,” New York Times, May 1, 2023, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/01/technology/ai-google-chatbot-engineer-quits-hinton.html.

Ibid.

Robby Soave, “Covid-16 is Probably 99% Survivable for Most Age Groups, but Politi-Fact Rated this False,” Reason, August 9, 2021, www.reason.com/2021/08/09/covid-19-is-probably-99-survivable-for-most-age-groups-but-politifact-rated-this-false/.

“NEAS Final Form Ep12: The One with That One Call,” YouTube, May 8, 2023, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usl7bWUt3tg..

Ronald Bailey, “To Save the Planet, Kill 90% of People Off, Says UT Ecologist,” Reason, April 3, 2006, www.reason.com/2006/04/03/to-save-the-planet-kill-90-per/.

John Vidal, “Cut World Population and Redistribute Resources, Expert Urges,” The Guardian, April 26, 2012, www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/apr/26/world-population-resources-paul-ehrlich.