I may not be using the term AI properly.
I watched Ben Shapiro talk to this thing (the damn thing had a liberal bent to it, if you can believe that) and I also watched an interview with Jordan Peterson and it is basically a question answerer. It wasn’t thinking or sentient. It was the type of tool that would work for whoever owned it. It appeared to be pretty good at analysis.
I too have thought what has been going on these last several years could be luck or coincidence. At times I have thought they were terrified and were going overboard, as tyrants tend to do before the end.
But years on and they are still winning... bigly. They get caught, and just double down. We can see another ‘rona scare being built before our eyes.
So I’m beginning to smell a rat here. The question is, how could a group of retards accomplish something no one else has ever been able to do? Navigate the winning sequence in an incomprehensibly complex system of systems and win (or advance) every time?
And this new AI chat. That I can go play with myself. I am to believe that this is brand new and governments have not been developing this secretly for decades? They tell me its a research tool for now.
I suspect the research being done is on us. Its one thing to feed this thing a dissertation on transcendentalism. It is quite another to allow it to observe and record the real-time thinking and logic process of everyday people. To allow it to observe and document how normal humans interface with AI.
I don’t want to downplay your point about AI because I think it is a real danger. But I don’t think the success of an evil regime made up of low intelligence schemers is necessarily due to AI.
The group around Hitler and Hitler himself fit that same pattern, and look what they did to the world. The top levels of the Soviet tyranny were notorious for being evil but dumb. Intelligence was not their strong suit, artificial or otherwise, but they ruled half the world and put more of it in fear.
Both groups had existing government structures to step into and willing or acquiescent populations top rule. Looks a lot like the current US regime, AI or no AI.