A Few Stray 'Terminators' Are Worth Blocking Leftists From an AI Information Monopoly

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Why a Few Stray ‘Terminators’ May Be Worth Stopping a Leftist AI Information Monopoly

As a bit of fun, I recently asked Google Gemini to create an image of me sporting a Donald Trump face tattoo. The idea came from a viral post I had seen—one that, according to an X Community Note, was also generated by AI.

My main complaint is that I actually have more hair. Still, the internet trolls who once dubbed me “Temu Ron Howard” may not have been completely wrong.

I have to admit, the result was striking evidence of how far artificial intelligence has advanced. In only a few years, AI-generated images have moved beyond the uncanny valley and reached a level of photorealism capable of fooling a great many people.

That is just one of the unresolved problems facing us as society enters a new era of information. Increasingly, material that looks authentic may be just as likely to be fabricated.

In philosophical terms, it feels as though we have returned to the starting point: the Socratic idea that wisdom begins with recognizing how little we truly know.

In more practical terms, we are confronting an expanding list of AI-related dangers, with the possibility of human extinction sitting at the most extreme end of the spectrum.

FOUR YEARS FROM EXTINCTION

Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon intensified the alarm on Sept. 8, arguing that major AI companies were largely failing to take the risks of rapidly advancing technology seriously.

Coxon said AI development needs stronger safeguards than those supplied by market forces alone, particularly as the United States and China enter what increasingly resembles a 21st-century arms race. Speaking with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, he warned that AI could exceed human intelligence by 2030—or potentially even earlier—if its progress remains unchecked.

“If you project the current trajectory of AI capabilities into the future, systems with comparable independent agency could create extraordinary chaos,” Coxon said.

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., was among the first public figures to respond. He introduced the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act, a proposal that would pause AI development until “a federal regulator has established safety rules.”

At first glance, the measure may appear to offer a straightforward safety solution. However, the proposed Bernie bill also includes severe penalties that warrant closer scrutiny.

Others are also questioning whether the AI industry itself may be encouraging regulation as a way to burden future competitors with expensive compliance requirements. Under that theory, established companies could continue operating while treating regulatory fines as a manageable cost—and use the rules to keep emerging rivals out of the market.

Some are even calling Coxon’s supposed whistleblowing a well-coordinated psy-op.

Others suggest that some sort of crisis-level event may have occurred that is being withheld from the general public.

Elon Musk supports tighter controls.

Donald Trump opposes them.

Hillary Clinton supports them…

OK, I’ve heard enough.

HOW TO SPOT A LIE

We may live in a world where the difference between a truth and a lie is indiscernible, but a failsafe way to know who is lying is when the wrong people start lining up behind it.

A similar dynamic helped to provide a moral compass when Russia invaded Ukraine.

While nobody wanted to see a sovereign nation taken over by the one-time “Evil Empire,” with panic-mongers declaring Putin would not stop until he controlled all of Europe, it was Sean Penn suddenly going full-fledged warhawk — along with the cyberterrorist group Anonymous and George Soros himself — that made up my mind on the matter.

Lo and behold, allegations soon arose that the war was part of a massive slush-fund operation to reroute funds back into Democrat Party coffers by way of non-governmental organizations and investors, with just enough “Republican” support to make it seem nonpartisan.

The Clintons were not far behind.

Yet, as the outrage faded into the overall narrative, Congress continued to appropriate billions of dollars to Ukraine’s defenses, with no regard for how the money was being spent.

TRUST THE SCIENCE?

The AI alarmism, meanwhile, calls to mind similar hysterias, such as climate change and COVID chicanery, that have relied largely on the public’s fear of the unknown and the complexity of nuanced issues that could not simply be encapsulated into a few 30-second soundbites.

We can all agree that mass-extinction events are bad, but the devil is in the details. Will drastic measures driven by government and industry be the most effective at mitigating valid concerns?

Invariably, the answer is no.

At best, government interference is a waste of tax dollars. At worst, it becomes a fundamental part of the underlying problem since there is no better way to assure something never goes away than to cultivate a bureaucracy that is dependent upon its perpetuity.

In the case of AI, however, the stakes have never been higher due to the undeniably exponential speed at which it is evolving and the potential for grave negative consequences.

Thus, it is necessary to weigh the costs and benefits of both the problem and its possible solutions.

THE LESSER OF TWO EVILS

If AI goes unchecked, our science-fiction dystopian nightmares may become a reality in any number of ways. The consensus seems to be a worst-case scenario in which computers cross over the point of singularity to develop self-awareness and superintelligence, then decide to keep humankind around as pets — or as living batteries, like in “The Matrix.”

It is a sort of de facto slavery, beholden to the very machines that we, ourselves, engendered. Then again, most pets seem to lead a pretty good life.

The alternative is that we all get dumber — the very trajectory Americans have been on since the federal government first became involved in education, when schools ceased to be about fostering high-level critical thinking and more about social conditioning (including indoctrination to Marxist critical theories).

Leftists and the corrupt establishment are not looking to harness the power of AI out of some magnanimous concern, but out of a fear that they will no longer get to be the slavers, that greater computing capabilities and access to a free flow of information will allow humans to evolve into a more sophisticated version of themselves that is not dependent on being spoon-fed its beliefs and opinions.

Paradoxically, by living in a world in which we must constantly discern fact from fiction, it is serial gaslighters like Clinton who have the most to lose.

Undoubtedly, we must remain vigilant about the direction that AI development is taking, but the threat of science going too far in its attempts to play God is nothing new.

Reasonable checks and oversight will emerge that offer a happy medium between total government regulation and none at all. 

If Bernie Sanders were in charge of AI, he’d just shut it all down and allow China to overlap us and become the great superpower on the planet.  

This is not the time for foolish, knee-jerk reactions. We must handle the advancing technology in a wise, balanced manner to harness its potential while ensuring its safety. We can and will do that correctly.

And if they do not — if the industry cannot develop its own code of ethics to self-regulate — I’d still sooner take a couple of time-traveling Terminators over letting Hillary and Bernie hold the reins on what information we are allowed access to.

Editor’s Note: President Trump is leading America into the “Golden Age” as Democrats desperately try to stop it.  

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