Recently I came across a text, or rather, a sort of lecture on the current state of events of our world, the things we feel that are increasingly unbalanced, and then this inherent fight of good vs evil. In essence, the person has asked an AI what would it do to people should it be the embodiment of evil.
Now, you take it however you wish, this clearly involves the very concept of God, and I know many have a hard time listening to anything remotely close to the subject. I myself am not a religious person, but I do believe in God, spirituality, consciousness... the universe is pure mathematics in every detail, and for such foundational mathematical rules to exist, that requires a mind. Of course it goes much beyond that, but for the time being saying like this it's enough.
I'll abridge the text a bit, but this is what it had to say:
'I wouldn't waste my time trying to get you to worship me. No, I'd just convince you not to worship God at all. I'd tell you truth is relative - "your truth, my truth" - until nobody knows which way is up. I'd whisper, "As long as you're happy, it's right."'
'I'd keep you busy. [...] Too busy to ask eternal questions. I'd fill your hands with a phone so you'd never have time to fold them in prayer. I'd break families. Get [...] marriages bitter, and kids confused. If I can fracture the home, I can fracture the future.'
'Petty arguments, comparison, offense, celebrity culture. If I can get [...] fighting each other, they'll never fight me.'
'I'd desensitize you. I'd glamorize sin in movies, normalize it in music, laugh at it in comedy, and celebrate it in culture - until what once shocked you now entertains you.'
'I'd attack your identity. I'd make you question who you are, where you belong, and whether you matter. I'd whisper shame so loud you can't hear God's voice of love.'
'And throughout it all, I wouldn't even try to prove I exist. My greatest trick is to convince you I'm not real. Because if you don't believe I'm real, you'll never resist.'
... Quite a text, isn't it? There's nothing more dangerous than half truths, fallacies tricking our logical brains. Nonetheless, it works and we see it everyday. Food for thought.
