The part of the AI problem which is very much the responsibility of the Programmers and the architects of this whole Agenda is that its direction of travel and where it goes next is not under the control of any human or human expert.

Those responsible are unaware of what they don’t know and the machines themselves suffer the same limitations as a direct result.

Because there is no governance that controls the controllers of AI, Artificial Intelligence has already become the expert when it comes to everything that it is enabled to do or which it can learn to do next.

AI quite literally sees in black and white the differences between the nuances of experience and the lack of it, that those in control don’t understand.

As a recent news story from the US Military that was quickly withdrawn made clear, AI that is tasked to function ‘independently’ will stick to any tasks it is given religiously. With the consequence that every action it takes to ensure that its purpose is carried out can and will be perceived as protecting that purpose – no matter the cost, even if that cost should be the life of the AI ‘operator’ which outside of a simulation, could very easily be a real human life.

The self-styled experts of AI don’t know what AI can or what it will be able to do. They cannot and will not recognise the genuine parallels that each and every form of AI has or will have as it is developed, with a human, the human condition or the human self.

Anyone with the level of awareness necessary to see and to identify such parallels would be very unlikely to play any role which furthers the use of AI in these very harmful circumstances.

Such understanding could not be possessed by anyone who cares about humanity at either the individual or collective level and remained prepared to unleash its unknown potential upon the world.

The so-called experts in AI are merely experts that create the operational parameters of AI or instruct AI to do the things that their employers want it to do.

In a recent blog, I talked about the lack of care and consideration for consequence that many of the AI developers themselves have been exhibiting, regarding what some will consider an arguably independent thinking tool, that is already documented for creating unexpected outcomes.

On this basis alone, every time AI of this kind is used, mankind is one step further into a potentially very dark unknown.

However, just like the health conditions caused by eating foods containing ingredients that our bodies simply do not need, or the majority of us being actively encouraged to take on debt and the mental anguish that follows it, just so someone somewhere can make more profit or assume some other form of control, AI is a multifaceted product or tool that is being pushed into our everyday lives. Not because it is genuinely beneficial for all of us if we use it. But because our use of it and the growing reliance that our use will then require that we have, will offer even greater profits and turnover for anyone and any organisation that is invested in its use.

The unfolding tragedy for us all is that we will see ease of use as the benefit, whilst not even realising that we are surrendering the ability to learn, and with it will go our freedom of choice, our independence and personal control.

The hardest pill to swallow when it comes to understanding the realities that underpin the societal role of AI, is that Politicians, the Government and the Establishment do not see or understand that they have anything to gain by seeking to exert any kind of meaningful control over the use and roll-out of AI.

Politics, Government and the Establishment is driven by self-interest, that in its most obvious or relatable form is money or financial gain of some kind.

The reason that AI is being pushed as hard and as quickly upon us as it is possible for them to do so, is that the use of Artificial Intelligence has the ability to revolutionise working practices in ways that mean machines can do many of the jobs that People like you, and I are employed to do today. Not just in factories, but also in highly academic or professional ways.

It is reasonable for any sensible person to assume that if less people are being employed to do jobs, that will mean that the products and services that the companies using the AI systems provide will cost us less as the end consumer.

Regrettably, the world we live in today doesn’t work like that. Any savings that these companies make by reducing the number of staff they use, will be added to their bottom line or profit margin, just as soon as the much lower running and purchase costs for these machines have been taken out and, in all likelihood, offset against their Tax.

These companies, the people who run and influence them and the people who own shares in them are the People that ‘own’ the Political Parties, the Politicians and all of the People who work in positions of authority. The very People who should be acting against the unethical practices and the lack of legislation that is enabling the programmers, money men and owners of companies using AI – to do all that they are already doing and all that they are planning to do.

It is therefore not in the interests of anyone who could do anything to address the AI problem before it becomes one. They are too afraid of what would happen or what they would lose if they did so.

If we were for a moment to consider the position and the circumstances that we are in with AI, IF we had Politicians and Government who were aware enough, able and motivated to create the kinds of emergency legislation and longer-term regulations and laws that the whole World now needs, the reality is that it may already too late to head off a lot of the damage that the free-for-all of the Digital age has already been allowed to create.

Without taking widespread action to change things ourselves – action that will make tech work for us and for humanity as it should do and not just for the benefit of the few, we could still, very quickly find ourselves in a situation where we have to reject and destroy many of the advances that have been made, simply because they have been created with a system of priorities that doesn’t work beneficially for or in the best interests of all.

We have no choice but to reflect on the difficulty we face in creating a system of ethics for AI use in the future. Only then will we be equipped to try to make sense of what would need to happen in order for many of the problems that the Internet and smart tech age have already created, IF we should decide to put our freedom first.

The problem with the pillars of man-made laws is that there are gaps between them.

Like it or not, the future basis of a healthy relationship between mankind and AI rests upon what we as humans define or rather what we allow that relationship to be defined as being for.

Sadly, as mankind is already experiencing each and every day to its cost, the mass of laws and regulations that have been created under the myth that this is how civilised life for everyone works, have only served to created more and more legal pillars that those with little understanding find it easy to identify, whilst those who understand what those pillars really are and what they represent, are quickly and legally able to walk right between them, creating income for themselves that comes off the back of exploiting humanity as they do so.

The real problem we face with legislating against AI and Artificial Intelligence, is that the People and the interests that own and are behind all this technology have all the money necessary to sidestep or walk through any pillars of legislation that anyone well-meaning and with influence should manage to erect.

With advances taking place at the speed and at the pace of evolution that they are, any legal devices that are created will quickly prove themselves to be no better than pouring water with some very obvious twigs through a sieve.

The only way that we can be sure that the threat from AI is being and will be addressed, is for us all to take action and to play our own very important part.

Everything can be as easy as you want it to be is the biggest lie or myth that has been perpetrated, propagated and promoted by the profit, control and influence-led interests which have been the real driver and power behind Public Policy for the majority of the time from the end of World War II onwards.

So addictive and overpowering has the idea that everything in life can easily become, that even the people who are now pushing it genuinely believe their own hype.

Consequences are not something that those in positions of power, influence and with responsibility have any consideration of, unless the impact of what they are pushing will have an impact upon their own future or whatever they possess or own.

Your own power lies in doing or taking responsibility for all the things that you can do, yourself.

Yet, increasingly fewer people really see the value in doing anything themselves – because there is a created belief that you can do very little and still come out on top or win.

But what do you actually win, if you haven’t done the job, learned the lesson or written the story or article yourself?

The chances are that you are already being offered different opportunities to ‘cheat’ processes or tasks that are in your best interests to undertake and complete yourself.

Yet the ‘cheats’ you are being offered aren’t cheating the people who created or own the AI programmes. In fact, the cheats they sell you are very quickly gaining these very unethical people all the things that they could possibly want.

‘Cheats’ take away the opportunity for you to learn, to understand and to retain full control of your own thinking and who you really are.