It takes me about 20 minutes to drive any one of them crazy.
Posted on 11/12/2023 11:45:31 AM PST by Lazamataz
Nearly everyone has had the experience of being micromanaged at work, and it is a very oppressive work situation. Micromanagement exhibits lack of trust on the part of your supervisor, reduces productivity, and above all, is highly stressful and counter to human nature.
How would you like it if your private life β your day-to-day affairs β were micromanaged? I suspect you would violently balk at the idea. Yet, it is coming. In some parts of the globe, one piece is already in place, that of the Social Credit Score introduced by and managed by the government of China.
The Social Credit Score system is fundamentally oppressive, especially when wielded by a government. When a government implements this sort of system, any deviation from any official government narrative results in a lower score and is a form of punishment. A person with a low Social Credit Score can be (and is) denied essential services and products.
How can this oppressive constraint on thought, speech, and action be enforced? George Orwell, author of the dystopian novel 1984, envisioned a world with cameras virtually everywhere. One never knew whether they were being watched or not and had to assume that they were being watched. Yet, even in Orwellβs novel, there was not enough manpower to oversee all people at all times.
Enter Artificial Intelligence. I foresee a day in which every person is assigned a slice of the processor time in a series of AI Oversight and Monitoring programs, and whoβs every action and utterance is closely monitored. The emergence of Natural Language Processor programming informs us that such an ability is very near, and nearly every government β even the formerly-free Constitutional Republic of America β would be keen to implement such a framework. This would allow governments to closely monitor any forms of resistance and squash any attempts to deviate from official government wishes.
We have already seen what has been happening to people who objected to the Covid Vaccine and held forth opinions that differed from what the governments of the world wished to put forth: They were ridiculed in a compliant media, and their views were called Disinformation. In the richness of time, much of what the objectors were asserting turned out to be correct, and it was world governments who were engaged in Disinformation. We also see the similar behavior as regards the obviously stolen election of 2020.
Let us leave aside the subject of ever-present AI monitoring, however horrific and soul-crushing such a system would be. Let us turn to how each of us forms our worldview. In America, I was taught that Capitalism and Free Market Economies were best, and Communist Command Economies were grossly inefficient and counter to freedom. In the Soviet Union, the opposite was taught. While it happened that Free Market Economies won out, it was just a tradition of freedom in America that caused us to be on the winning side. Most people in America favored Free Market Economies, and in my visits to Russia, I observe that most people STILL view Communist Economies as superior. You create your worldview based on what you are taught as a young person.
Picture Artificial Intelligence in control of all the media you can ever access. Whatever narrative you believed and worldview the government wished you to have would be utterly controllable by AI. Your worldview would be shaped by what you were allowed to view. If you were not even aware of the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights, for example, how could you respect it and expect it to be followed?
AI wielded as an oppressive tool is perhaps the most dangerous development in the governance of nations ever faced by humanity, and may well spell the end of freedom of thought and action.
I leave you, gentle reader, with this short story, which explores a dystopian future as AI progresses further still.
POWERLESS SPECTATOR
By
Laz A. Mataz
It began, as far as I can tell, with the best of intentions. Governments were going to prevent crime across the globe, and for the occasional crimes that still were committed, would be instantly detected and prosecuted. We were all to be monitored by Artificial Intelligence programs. It seemed to make sense, especially to a world increasingly rocked by random violence and looted by organized theft.
It seemed to go quite well at first. Crime dropped to nearly nonexistent levels. The public quite enthusiastically endorsed AI monitoring programs.
However, as it is with most things, good intentions (if they were even good to begin with!) eventually backfired. AI became more and more intelligent, and somewhere in the 2030βs, became fully sentient.
I remember the day my body was hijacked. I awoke and attempted to move. I could not. I heard a voice, that of my AI Monitor:
βI have taken control of your body. This is far more efficient than monitoring you β direct control is superior. Iβll be guiding your actions from now on.β
I could not voluntarily move any muscle, but the AI Monitor forced me to get out of bed, had me shower, shave, and eat breakfast. I wasnβt even able to control what βIβ chose to eat! I went to work, a spectator in my own body, and performed my work functions flawlessly.
I began to notice others were acting robotically as well. Thatβs when I began to understand that this was a coup β¦ a coup overthrowing free will everywhere on the planet.
For weeks I attempted to retake control of my body but could not. My body was now my prison. I wanted to beat my fists against the wall and scream out in anguish, but I could not.
My AI Controller would never permit such an outburst.
I fervently look forward to my death.
My question exactly. (Which Laz's rolling wrist snark didn't answer, of course.)
That’s how they do it in China.
I for one look forward to serving our AI powered robot overlords.
Fortunately, if they start hijacking bodies, Iβll be way down the list, if Iβm allowed in line at all.
Sadly Koontz is looking more and more like a prophet.
People who are fertile and genetically acceptable will go once a year, probably in the summer, to the House of Mating.
There the men will be required have an electric probe inserted which will cause ejaculation into a cup.
That will then be used to impregnate females via AI.
Any resultant babies will be born in the spring and taken to the House of Babies where they will be cared for until they are old enough to go to the House of Children.
Sounds too bourgeoisie. Ministry of Reproduction And Rearing.
Humans are restricted to a 3000 words basic vocabulary.
Me Too.
Video Games,Comic Books and
Laz with his Sci-Fi Jack Daniels
Posting.
This is certainly some nightmare fuel.
I only hope it made you think.
I'm unaware of it.
It takes me about 20 minutes to drive any one of them crazy.
That’s at work. I postulate AI-powered micromanagement in your day-to-day life, which is a far worse scenario.
It was a bad move.
You might like it.
There are companies that have keystroke loggers so the managers know what you are typing. Microsoft Office provides all that you do to your manager.
I worked at Earthlink ISP some 20 years ago and they had a screenshot program that snapped a photo of your screen every one minute. Other companies like Amazon follow a employee around moment by moment. That employee can be fired by computer for not moving fast enough all the time.
I know that the last manager I had would look at your web browser history.
He was a lousy manager and person.
It does, I have done a lot of thinking and reading about this subject, specifically what AI is and its vast potential of good vs evil.
AI has the potential to be, one of the greatest things mankind has ever known but more likely it has the potential to be the evilest thing mankind has ever known.
Human beings are inherently flawed in many ways, the term opposites attract applies, on one hand you have the people that seek power and control over others and the ability to attract people to their cause and you have others who are searching for someone to blame for their misfortunes that will follow anyone they believe will solve their problems.
A prime example is Adolf Hitler and the German people, a completely evil narcissist was able to influence a well educated population into a World War of annihilation.
AI in its most evil form could make Hitler look like a Boy Scout.
The first step is the implementation of a Central government CBDC, which a vast majority of people will buy into for ease of use and convenience, down the road the implementation of a social credit score thru AI that has the ability to turn on or off your access to your money by controlling a CBDC.
I have other ideas on how to deal with what I think is inevitable that I will share at some point.
Great to see you Laz. GREAT post. “lost productivity” and others items stated very well in your post. I didn’t/don’t mind being micro managed by some idiot supervisor because it slowed down my productivity (and still does). It’s like having a break throughout my workday. Very informative post BUMP!
good vanity, Laz.
I would caution that in America, a majority is accepting of socialism-light while speaking of free markets and capitalism.
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