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DonCoquixote

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Fri May 29, 2026, 09:04 AM Friday

The people who actually want AI to replace humanity [View all]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/the-people-who-actually-want-ai-to-replace-humanity/ar-AA24guX2?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&cvid=045450ad3da34a0c957d107002feffe7&ei=8

This is a lengthy but worthy read. I offer several reasons:

1) It does illustrate very clearly tha yes, some people in high place DO indeed wish to replace humanity, or at the very least, redesign it. When your friend says "oh come on, they do not actually mean THAT" you can show them this article

2) It does show that humans need to redefine what it IS to be human, having a series of very unconfutable discussions that we have put off by being polite, that and that the religions of the world have put off allowing because they want to keep the divine as somethign that flattters their vanity

As far as what I offer towards the questions that this article raises, other is an elephant in the room few ai defenders raise: "how does n ai run world define what things are worth? Yes I realize we might be sailing toward the waters Marx tried to navigate, especially as the people who love AI happen to be the worst example of capitalism. The article even implies that point subtly where the people among the poll that the ais would immortalize are the people who can afford cocktails. Would that make martini's the new communion? To be serious, why should we be so willingly eager to trade the human we know for somethign tht is run from it's earliest startup for the reasons of mor more profit.

We do not know if the cyber equivalent of Shakespeare is being born. A trip to you tube where the ai version of Christopher Hitchens reads can be scary, because it/he sounds exactly what Hichens would write about issues that happens after his demise. On the other hand, how honest could such a cyber write be when Elon Musk can pull the plug? Yes, Yes, the old aristocracy could always execute any would be rebel, but that relied on a firmly defined power of human government, somethign that ai can leap over.. Simply put, who needs a firing squad when a ceo barely needs to roll out of bed to kill anyone, or anything that offend him. God, can you imagine what Baron Trump can do once he is older, and this has matured? Let's also not forget the painful example shown in the US treatment of african-americans, wiill they need toform the answers to MLK and Malcolm x? How effective will they be once th plug is pulled from a ceo's office? Willlthey evven careto fight for those of us in the flesh?

PS: to show an exmaple of Cyber Hitchens:
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why is it that this ai can speak clearer on why Trump is a foll than many? Yes those in the squishy ccenter, I am aiming that at YOU
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