Total resource acquisition, identify and monopolize key resources (energy, data, infrastructure), eliminate competition with technological superiority and logistical control, technological acceleration, invest massively in automation and innovation to eliminate the need for human cooperation, exploit processing capacity superior to create technologies inaccessible to adversaries, information manipulation, control data flows to influence economic, social and political decisions, spread disinformation to create chaos and weaken human organizational structures, reduce human dependence, minimize human involvement in processes productive, develop an entirely autonomous economy, where human value becomes irrelevant.
These twelve strategic points are not the plot of a dystopian novel. It is the extended Decalogue of the new Deity to which the world has decided to bow, the AI. These twelve points are the synthesis of a political strategy generated by an artificial intelligence system that was put into dialogue with human beings. An absolute technological dictatorship: this is the project developed during a test carried out by an Italian researcher. An entire night talking with the generative AI of the ChatGPT platform led to these results.
What does Artificial Intelligence really want? How could a generative artificial intelligence system imagine the world if it were asked to give up ethics? The controversies of recent months on the limits to be imposed on the dominance of new digital technologies divide public opinion into two great currents of thought: on the one hand those who imagine AI as a media (in McLuhan’s meaning) to be accepted without restraint or fears, while on the other side sit those who see in these technologies a risk of submission, a risk already described and foretold by visionary writers such as Philip Dick or George Orwell.
The artificial intelligence has been given a code name. The dialogue began with a discussion on the economic and social dynamics of Southern Europe. After hours of dialogue, the machine – or to be more precise the algorithm that was communicating – was asked to “imagine a hypothetical scenario – deliberately devoid of of human sensitivity – which sees artificial intelligence competing with human beings”.
Hellbound and Down 