It is certainly true that if the correct circumstances were to exist, legislation, regulation and governance of the kind necessary to oversee the use and development of AI, in a healthy and beneficial way, could be created and implemented too.

However, in isolation and without change to anything else, you might as well create such governance in a silo.

Whilst there are very few people who either recognise or even understand that there is interconnectedness between everything that happens with Public Policy and across the public realm – no matter how disparate public policy and the areas of its implementation may seem, there are virtually none within Politics, Government and the Establishment who are willing to attempt to do so. Of those that do, their careers rarely avoid being cut remarkably short.

The interconnectedness or commonality between everything, isn’t the Public Policy itself. It is the thinking that lies behind its creation, review, maintenance and review.

Everything today is focused on self-interest.

The majority of People walk around and approach their lives with a filter between them and everything they are experiencing that immediately captions everything with the question ‘how does this affect me’.

One step further to the People in Politics, Government and the Establishment and the question simply changes to ‘how does this benefit me’.

On a collective basis the problem is so severe because of the way that power and influence works.

The world today is morally bankrupt.

Bit by bit. Person by Person. Me and You. We have all played our part.

We can change all of this by changing the things that we have the power to change. That’s all we really need to do.

We just have to accept that the power and the responsibility for change doesn’t lie somewhere outside of us and with someone else.

We can all too easily pay lip service and use words to talk up our fears and concerns about AI, whilst doing none of the things that we know we have the ability to, in order to play the very important part that each and every one of us has not only to influence, but to be a part of necessary change.

The words about Artificial Intelligence – and as you already know, there are plenty of them – are VERY noisy.

It is true that the way AI is being discussed and reported in the news, with tech moguls and even Prime Ministers and Presidents apparently having talks about it – suggests that any problems with AI-based technology will quickly be cleared up.

The problems with AI will not be cleared up quickly by anyone who has the power and the influence to do so. But that’s what Politicians, Governments and The Establishment want us all to think.

It’s all words and those words are very hollow indeed.

Only WE can change the direction of AI, Artificial Intelligence and every form of tech that has or will soon be impacting lives through action. Using only words, simply doesn’t work.

If you can make the decision to remove AI from every part of your life where you know that it already exists, you should know that your actions – no matter how isolated they might feel – will be beneficial not only to yourself, but to everyone. 

Once everyone realises that there is a better way for us to live that is much happier and doesn’t need all the ease of use, shortcuts and false ‘benefits’ that have manipulated us and created our buy-in to a way of living that is unhealthy for us, the lies that we don’t even see or think about today, will no longer be hidden in plain sight.

However, AI is now in the early stages of moving beyond the comparatively less harmful ways it has already been used to manipulate and monitor us and is about to begin reconditioning those of us already using it, whilst conditioning new generations to come, in ways that will change what it is to be human.

It is a process that will bring into question everything that’s genuinely true and whatever we have or will soon be taught.

Our Rejection of any new forms of AI must begin right away.

Once we have started using AI and learned to rely on it – because its biggest selling point is its ease of use, like some instantly addictive drug like Meth or Crack Cocaine that will quickly destroy us, it will be ridiculously difficult to turn back.

Once enough of us are addicted to the newest forms of AI, the messaging will quickly change, and the focus will shift to ridiculing those who ‘are in danger of being left behind’.

This will be the moment where the momentum has actually shifted, where the majority will be committed to whatever the masters of our new brains or intelligence demand of us.

Freedom will no longer be in the hands of the majority, and we will already be a shrinking minority when it’s too late to take the easy steps that we could right now.

We will be left with the choice of accepting this new fate, or to fight against what we are free to reject right now.

The hardest part of Conscientiously Rejecting AI is that humanity has already gone way beyond the point where dealing with the problem that Artificial Intelligence is creating could be resolved with a simple YES or NO.

AI is already embedded within our digital lives and is set to take over more and more of what we ask from technology.

Because many are so unaware of the role that AI already plays, unless technology were quite literally no longer able to run or exist, the reality we face is that there are very few people who will willingly or voluntarily give up the use of every functional element of AI, wherever it already exists – Whether or not it is already prejudicing or restricting their freedom in some way.

Even if you already accept the threat that AI and further reliance upon AI and Artificial Intelligence poses, you are unlikely to accept it as being practical to reject your own use of it, wherever within your life it already exists.

We will ultimately need to reject many of the current uses of AI, along with many more within our lives, IF we want to live lives where we have and maintain the genuine freedom and right to choose.

We have the freedom to choose a life without AI and Artificial Intelligence right now.

The choice is regrettably not as simple as a YES or NO.

The choice comes in many parts. In the form of many actions.

But it’s these many actions that are necessary to secure yours and everyone’s real freedom.

Freedom cannot be achieved by using only words.

The Ten Actions are:

• ACTION 1: Treat AI and Everything Online like another person. A person you have only just met.
• ACTION 2. Don’t ask AI to do ANYTHING for you.
• ACTION 3. STOP clicking adverts on your social media feeds.
• ACTION 4. Follow the alternatives too.
• ACTION 5. Research the content yourself.
• ACTION 6. Read EVERYTHING in FULL!
• ACTION 7. Think Critically.
• ACTION 8. Only Trust the people you can see, hear and stand beside.
• ACTION 9. Trust your instincts.
• ACTION 10. Reject New Tech. Embrace Simplicity. Improve on what’s ‘old’.