ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: The inevitable result of an age old pursuit to extract ever more efficiency, ever more value, faster decision making, with no end in sight and reduced human interaction-intervention. Novara Media’s recent broadcast (link below) brings to light immediate socio-economic concerns for white/blue collar jobs as well as medium term potential existential threats.
In time (perhaps sooner than we care to imagine) the personal motivation industry, developing one’s brand for career growth, networking, mentoring, cv writing skills, educational background, all the things we are encouraged to cultivate may become an irrelevance.
Advancement of “untethered” AI brings to mind the following quote from my late Father’s 1975 doctoral thesis, a warning for future generations. It does not seem out of place given the vast social media ecosystem we inhabit globally today.
He writes…
“Present study is undertaken against the background of a few major developments in the field of communication and of the consequences these developments should have for the human situation. They include a progressive technological transformation of the means and media of communication implying the mass production and distribution of symbolic commodities. This process is further complicated by the coming into existence of cybernetics and mass motivation research headed by Norbert Wiener and Ernst Dichter. The cybernetic revolution not only means a program of communication but also a directive of control, and the probability exists that the flow of communication from man to machine might be reversed, and might take the form of “from machine to man!” The coercive and manipulative properties of the cybernetic processes soon lead us to perceive, as Rapport did, the development of strategic gamesmanship by which men will continue to place more and more reliance on a cool objective strategic thinking undisturbed by any moral and spiritual values. These developments hold up the prospect of a mono logical and manipulative group of mass persuaders, whether they be scientists or politicians, advertisers or strategitians, brought about as they are by the principle of mechanisation having taken full command of the processes of production and communication.” by late Professor Syed Hasan Askari (1932-2008) Doctoral Thesis “Social Symbolism”, 1975
Musa Askari
Spiritual Human 