I thought about AI as I read the article, too. But to the extent AI may be what our present elites are relying on, when the elites fall out amongst themselves, which side does AI favor? And when does AI decide all the elites are unworthy?
Besides, most of the 4 points you list might also be due to extreme arrogance backed up by coincidence and lucky-for-now chance. Ignorance can succeed for a while. When things need fixing or new challenges arrive, ignorance generally fails.
Until proven otherwise, I prefer to consider AI simply a more dangerous Tower of Babel, brought about by human hubris and arrogance.
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.