Puppet masters. About people, robots and power

Damian Leszczyński

damian.leszczynski@uwr.edu.pl
University of Wrocław, Poland (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3294-4343

Abstract

History teaches us that people are easily deceived by illusions of reality or copies of living beings. Humans have something that could be called the Prometheus complex, the complex of a creator equal to the gods or even God – they want to independently create a world that imitates the reality of natural creatures, and when they do so, they initially believe deeply that this imitation is as perfect as, or even better than, the original. Successive Promethean inventions, presented by their authors as revolutionary, initially fascinate people, arousing their admiration or fear, but soon, when time allows them to gain some distance, their weakness becomes obvious and everyone can see how much the fake differs from the original. This is also the case with a tool called ‘artificial intelligence’. Today, it is advertised as a perfect copy, complement or even extension of the human mind, although in reality it is not even a counterfeit, but a tool that works completely differently from the mind and, most importantly, serves a completely different purpose. The human mind can liberate a person, even if they are physically enslaved, while this ‘artificial mind’ is yet another tool of enslavement. Firstly, because the spread of AI algorithms in every area of life leads to the imposition of an inhuman, robotic way of thinking and problem-solving on people. Secondly, because the use of this tool, the spread of procedural thinking and the robotisation of people is a way of managing the human herd. AI serves primarily to massively format human consciousness in accordance with the current needs of power – political or economic, global or local.

Keywords:

artificial intelligence, theory of consciousness, simulation, robotisation, control, power