Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a widely known and used technology. Algorithms which mimic human behavior such as AlphaGo have shown to be superior Go players in play against humans. AI predictive capabilities are used by Google searches, stock market buying and selling, and so-called self-driving cars. These types of AI are limited in their scope, they are given rules to solve a specific problem such as win at a board game, predict current and future human behavior based on past human behavior, and even write computer code and news articles on their own.

Each of the arenas AI’s have entered takes some of the savor out of a human’s life as AI’s are progressively expanded in their ability to mimic human activities better and better. AI’s also limit job opportunities as though they don’t require bathroom breaks, blinking, sleep, nor eating.

As impressively impactful and dehumanizing as AI’s are today, these are limited AI’s. Whether even possible or not, researches, scientists, and the ethicists that make excuses for their efforts, endeavor to create Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). The idea behind AGI is what people like Google’s Ray Kurzweil calls the singularity – a point in time which cannot be reversed in which humanity is no longer the most intelligent physical entity on earth. Transhumanists long for the day of the development of an AGI because it will be capable of generating human thought with the depth of all of humanity’s combined knowledge at the speed of every human mind combined. Transhumanists seek to augment AGI’s into their own brains in order to ‘cure’ death. Neuralink is an early example of such dreams coming into the realm of reality, although AGI’s do not yet exist.

The Center for the Preservation of Humanity seeks to legally halt or hinder the progression of both limited and general AI in order to protect human worth. We also support strong ethical guidelines and prohibitions at an international level.