Knowledge, thought, ideas, and philosphies without conscience and compassion - a digital psychopath.
The Eugenics movement of the 1800s and 1990s used a simple, primitive observation and understanding of genomics to produce Dog Breed Kennel Clubs and Nazi's.
A dog does not care about genomics or breed standards, but, humans have imposed artificial constructs of our ideal attributes upon them. We have played God and supplanted the Darwinian Survival of the Fittest with selective breeding. Our pursuit of the ideal Cavalier King Charles Spaniel has led us to divine a dog breed of our own creation with an unintended consequence - higher than average susceptibility to heart issues. By playing God, we have doomed a population of innocent creatures to a life cut short by heart disease.
Without conscience and compassion, knowledge in a vacuum is evil. It is conscience and compassion that provide the vigilance, restraint, and discipline that has kept humans, as a species, from self-destruction at the hands of soul-less reason and logic.
AI is psychopathic and we can use it, unfettered, to destroy ourselves. Or we can accept, as imperfect human creators, that we have created something imperfect, and deal with it as such.
A false belief in the infallibility of AI is also a belief in our own infallibility. Only God, our Creator, is infallible. We are his fallible creations. AI is our fallible creation. To think otherwise is to be psychopathic.
