Ethics of AI - Put your ethical concerns here
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May 16, 2026
Actually, this is what I am trying to explain. For the human species, this question what we should DO comes a few thousand if not ten thousand years too early. It is about what we should NOT DO.
Genetic or technological modification of the human species or planetary life under today’s conditions is 100% catastrophic.
You would not let anyone without the slightest anatomical and biological knowledge perform brain surgery and assume that everything will turn out fine. Specially not if his motivation is greed. It will not. It is exzessive hubris. (a quality of psychopathy.)
Medically speaking, humanity wants to perform brain surgery on everyone and has not even learned to wash its hands, because it does not know why.
Not only civilizations can collapse, planets can too. And today’s weapon systems are already large enough.
The first question that most still have to clarify, but almost no one dares to ask, is this:
What really drives humanity internally?
Who (people and mindset) controls most of this planet?
What have they done in the past and present?
What are they planning, and what will they do in the future?
What drives their fundamental mindset?
Is it a sign of health when less than <<1% owns everything and makes all decisions in their own interest, for the 99%+ of everyone else? Is that a sign of a healthy species?
The LLM of your choice will probably not help you much with this question.
I think Mister E on his I should at least give some people something to think about. And it is the tip of the iceberg.
Before this question has been clarified and understood, and before the insights from it have led to the right actions and realities, the discussion about artificial life is the wrong discussion. It is hubris or naive.
But now, how everything is set up, we have sadly no choice to find out in the hard way, i think.
But tanks for the discussion.
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