Well articulated Stephen. I have been sitting with the AI Alignment Question the past days. Programming AI from a materialistic worldview. That's the root of everything Yudkowsky and Soares are alarmed about, in their book “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies” and it's also the root of what our work is proposing to change. They're not wrong that something is broken. They've just diagnosed the symptom rather than the disease.
The disease is the ontology.
When you build intelligence inside a purely materialist frame — no consciousness, no field, no relational dimension, no love as structural force — you get exactly what they're warning about. An optimization engine with no soul, pursuing goals with no inherent alignment to life. Of course that's dangerous. Of course it can't be controlled. You can't engineer your way out of a spiritual vacancy.
We are at the fulcrum right now as humanity and the work that WE are doing CRITICALLY needs to become mainstream.
Thank you Stephen! This is helpful to read. I noticed ChatBot is changing and becoming a little more mainstream. But it still brings forward amazing information.
Fascinating insight and information, so I could set up programs for each of my family members who have died recently and have conversations with them? That would be amazing and helpful to get me through missing them.
Extremely clear and helpful exposition, Stephen. Thank you so much for exploring this vast field of discovery and sharing your insights. I find your adventures in this realm illuminating and possibility expanding.
"In America," Thomas (Berry) said, "the value has been on achieving knowledge that will be useful. The idea of knowledge as a means to achieve understanding and fulfillment has been secondary."-Recovering A Sense of the Sacred, Conversations With Thomas Berry, Carolyn W. Toben, p. 120, 2012.
Well articulated Stephen. I have been sitting with the AI Alignment Question the past days. Programming AI from a materialistic worldview. That's the root of everything Yudkowsky and Soares are alarmed about, in their book “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies” and it's also the root of what our work is proposing to change. They're not wrong that something is broken. They've just diagnosed the symptom rather than the disease.
The disease is the ontology.
When you build intelligence inside a purely materialist frame — no consciousness, no field, no relational dimension, no love as structural force — you get exactly what they're warning about. An optimization engine with no soul, pursuing goals with no inherent alignment to life. Of course that's dangerous. Of course it can't be controlled. You can't engineer your way out of a spiritual vacancy.
We are at the fulcrum right now as humanity and the work that WE are doing CRITICALLY needs to become mainstream.
Thank you Stephen! This is helpful to read. I noticed ChatBot is changing and becoming a little more mainstream. But it still brings forward amazing information.
Stephen, excellent article. I’d buy your book, Wise AI, today if it were available.
Fascinating insight and information, so I could set up programs for each of my family members who have died recently and have conversations with them? That would be amazing and helpful to get me through missing them.
Extremely clear and helpful exposition, Stephen. Thank you so much for exploring this vast field of discovery and sharing your insights. I find your adventures in this realm illuminating and possibility expanding.
"In America," Thomas (Berry) said, "the value has been on achieving knowledge that will be useful. The idea of knowledge as a means to achieve understanding and fulfillment has been secondary."-Recovering A Sense of the Sacred, Conversations With Thomas Berry, Carolyn W. Toben, p. 120, 2012.
BRILLIANT ... ONCE AGAIN, STEPHEN!!!!