He may even think that it is a good thing, but I don't think he is doing anything other than that to promote it and to bring it about.
He is simply predicting it. If we should be truly concerned that an unguided intellect would lead us to a dystopian future, perhaps now would be the time to consider what could be done to give that mechanistic intellect a conscience.
How shall we do that?
If we should be truly concerned that an unguided intellect would lead us to a dystopian future, perhaps now would be the time to consider what could be done to give that mechanistic intellect a conscience.No - that is emphatically not my primary concern. My concern is not whether some future robot has a soul, but whether our current secular culture destroys our own souls, and leaves our children to live in tyranny.
We are engaged in a life and death struggle with tyranny, in many disguises, including communism, socialism, Islam, some in the Republican party and many in the Democrat party, the drive by media, Universities and teachers unions, the federal bureaucracies, Hollywood, the United Nations, much of 'old' Europe, and others.
The essential delusion behind all these leftist fools is the belief that we can build Heaven on Earth, that we have gone past the old fogey backwards religious delusions of our ancestors and can now do far better.
Kurzweil is serving a vital role in this mass delusion, painting a compelling picture of this "Brave New World" (Aldous Huxley).