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I was born at the end of the cold war, unaware of the danger we were emerging from. Duck and cover drills (as if those could protect schoolchildren from a nuclear blast) were a curiosity of the past.
The farmer-poet Wendell Berry, who wrote about the dread of nuclear war, died recently. From his 1968 “The peace of wild things”:
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least...
It is with shock and horror to hear that the Australian Government Is considering funding this project (Australian DishBrain team wins $600,000 grant to merge AI with human brain cells).
How quickly do you want to see the extinction of humanity? You may think I’m over dramatic. Well, if you proceed to encourage and fund this project, it could happen faster than you imagined.
On top of that, what happens if these technology falls into the wrong hands? Already there are millions of scammers happening everyday. There hasn’t been a day that I’m not receiving calls, texts or emails from strange people and companies trying to scam me.
Also what about all those hungry power wealthy people who wants to control the world? Imagine what they could do with these sorts of technology?
I think the world needs to wake up to these insane ideas of AI advancement before it all spins out of control. Once that happen, there’s no turning back.
I beg you please DO NOT fund this project.
Thank you.