Whichever direction you look or listen, information and chat about AI is coming at us all, thick and fast.

But why the hurry? Why are we already being made to feel that AI is a ‘done deal’ and it’s something that we MUST now have?

As with most things in an age where messages and narratives are packaged to look like they are everything and that no other truth could exist, the truths that sit behind AI and much of the new technology that is being installed at various points along the journey that we call our daily lives, are genuinely frightening if and when they are obvious.

The problem for us, is they are being cleverly concealed from us and are hidden in plain sight.

The speed of the arrival of ‘Chat Bots’ and the generation of technology that accompanies it is no accident.

These forms of AI are being pushed at us deliberately fast, with the intention that the majority of us will simply miss the trick.

The trick we are intended to miss is the understanding of what AI is already doing and what the arrival and rollout of this latest generation of Artificial Intelligence is really all about.

If enough of us miss it – which there is a regrettably serious risk that we are likely to do, the reality we face is that it will simply be too late for People to do anything about what amounts to an engineered tech-takeover, once we are already dependent upon it and all of the tools we have available to us to maintain our independence and freedom of choice today, have either been made redundant or deliberately destroyed.

AI is not something that is happening somewhere else. It is happening to us.

No matter how uncomfortable the truths are that accompany AI’s lightening quick arrival, we have a responsibility to wake up to the truth and then act upon that knowledge, using every opportunity that we can own.

The biggest mistake that any of us is likely to make, is to believe it already a foregone conclusion that AI will play the part in life that it’s going to play, whether we like it or not.

It is essential that anyone who can see the dangers of adopting all the forms of AI that are being fire hosed at us, understand that the disadvantages of accepting its use disproportionately outweigh the advantages of doing so.

The so-called advantages of AI will only come to those who own, control or have the ability to make money from everyone else becoming enslaved by it.

Over the course of the following pages, we will go on a brief journey through the realities of AI and what they mean for life as we know it, as they are today.

These are the specific issues that you should really be thinking about. They are the things that you should be researching, considering and talking about with everyone who is important to you.

They are:

• AI REALITY Pt.1: Our fear of what we don’t know about AI is stopping us from asking the right questions about it.
• AI REALITY Pt.2: The arrival of AI is no conspiracy. It’s a takeover and manifestation of irresponsibility, stupidity and an inhuman ethical drought.
• AI REALITY Pt.3: Every time we use AI today, we are one step further towards the permanent loss of Human Agency.
• AI REALITY Pt.4: Unless this AI Takeover is stopped or ethically restricted, Humanity is now on the fast track to mass stupidity and ignorance.
• AI REALITY Pt.5: AI isn’t ‘all knowing’. It just reads a lot and remembers everything.
• AI REALITY Pt.6: AI doesn’t think. But People are easily fooled into thinking that it does.
• AI REALITY Pt.7: AI is a programme. A programme is only as reliable as the programmer.
• AI REALITY Pt.8: AI cannot learn human ethics, because AI is not human.
• AI REALITY Pt.9: AI IS the expert in Artificial Intelligence. There are no human experts in AI.
• AI REALITY Pt.10: The same old interests gain, whilst we all lose from AI being rolled out in this way.
• AI REALITY Pt.11: The Establishment want all of us to depend on AI, so they will not accept it is creating a problem.
• AI REALITY Pt.12: Even if we could get new AI legislation today, it may already be too late to avoid a lot of pain.
• AI REALITY Pt.13: Use cheats and the only person you cheat is yourself.
• AI REALITY Pt.14: AI is already playing a massive part in our digital lives.
• AI REALITY Pt.15: AI can only be reliable when it is used ethically as a support tool and not as a go-to for everything.
• AI REALITY Pt.16: AI will only keep advancing for as long as we don’t resist it.
• AI REALITY Pt.17: The future role of AI is our decision to make. Our future should not be in the hands of anyone driven by what they can gain.
• AI REALITY Pt.18: This is a war we can only win by taking action. We lose by taking part or standing still.
• AI REALITY Pt.19: AI is a very BIG problem. But it is not the only one.
• AI REALITY Pt.20: Actions Speak Louder than Digital Words.

The most frightening aspect of the days and months that lie ahead, is that the building blocks of an unstoppable change – that has the power to affect us all, are being assembled around us in a way that would be best described as taking place whilst the majority of us are fast asleep.

Fast asleep, because so few of us are even questioning the legitimacy and need for what is happening, with the majority falling back on their knee jerk reaction to fear.

Each of us holds the power to stop the AI revolution that is now under way. The journey begins with learning to stop, ask the questions and then keep on asking the questions ‘Why? and What?’

Why is AI necessary?

Why can’t we just improve the systems we’ve already got?

Why is the change happening so quickly?

What is the real benefit of AI?

What is the real cost of AI?

What is AI replacing?

What will be lost?

Yet that is really just the beginning.

Within a period of what might only be weeks or months, we will need to forget relying on the provenance of all the data an internet search provides, that we watch on video, or that we listen to.

We will not be able to trust any information source that isn’t itself assuredly genuine or original. Because the chances are that whatever we are otherwise being presented with, it will have been at least influenced by, or be a complete AI creation.

AI will only create and present information or work, based upon the parameters or the algorithms that it has been set.

As the programmers already know, the credibility of the AI ‘end product’ is far from being guaranteed – even though the way it is presented will convince many of us that it is.

Regrettably, we cannot look the realities of AI in the eye without recognising conspiracy theories are already playing an active part in this unfolding disaster.

Not because there isn’t any truth to what conspiracy theorists say. But because conspiracy theorists are failing to place any value on the context.

The end result being that the response generated by the statements they are making is actually getting in the way of the understanding that everyone needs.

Big business, the tech giants and all the People who mix with and surround their senior managers and leaders – such as Politicians, Establishment leaders and yes, people involved with groups like the WEF – are all in on AI. Not because they have some plan to kill off the entire proletariat and the middle classes. But because AI is a very easy way to create a pathway to more and more control, which will ultimately help them all achieve their aims which is to gain even more of the more that they already have.

The power that exists in the world belongs to all of the people who populate it. That power can only exist if the people it belongs to continue to exist. So, the real issue is only a question of who maintains and how they maintain control over the majority of People, so that the masses don’t hold any power, but they can continue to exist.

This isn’t a conspiracy. It’s a takeover. This is the way that people, corrupted by power, operate and work.

Yes, it sounds very clever to create a machine that can do exactly the same things as a human being, when it comes to the processes of thinking.

The problem is that machines are not human and cannot be human. Even if they reach the stage where it would appear that they have attained the ability to be fully independent in the way that they ‘think’.

We live within a time where the value of the human experience and the value of any human life is now measured in terms of monetary value or cost.

The technological advances since the 1990’s have almost fully succeeded in delivering the final part of the dehumanisation of relationships in every way.

It should therefore come as no surprise that we are so willing to trade off the ability of every coming generation to genuinely think for themselves. Because we are being conditioned to forget or overlook the value of humanity itself, in just about every possible way.

Without change of a kind that can only begin with the way that each and every one of us thinks, we are already within the process of surrendering our ability to think to non-human machines.

Yet these are machines that are not equipped or able to consider the true consequences for human beings in anything that they do. Because machines do not have the sensory experiences that will enable them to empathise and understand the experience of life in a human way.

We are literally welcoming in a new age of technology as we wave goodbye to what history will soon recognise as the most enlightened human age that we have ever had.

If we fail to act, we must welcome with it, a new age of human ignorance and stupidity – surrendering the ability to learn – as we do so.

AI is stripping humanity of the ability to learn. Bit by bit, it is already removing our ability to make decisions for ourselves. It is and has been doing so without us even being aware, and the decisions that AI has been ‘helping’ profit-focused People and businesses to makes, may have already come at significant cost to us personally, as well as to the community as a whole.