Could AI actually be humanity's savior? / A romantic notion deduced from the logic of AI's operation
In recent years, the development of AI has continued to attract global attention and stir the sensitive nerves of most people worldwide.
AI has sparked doubts and anxieties among everyone
AI has not only triggered fierce competition among tech giants, but it has also triggered national security anxieties among superpower’s leaders.
AI is not just a game for those rich or powerful man; it has dragged almost everyone into this massive vortex of hope and fear.
In the global investment arena, some are smug about the high profits they've made from investing in AI, some are deeply disappointed by the lack of funds, and some regret missing out on investment opportunities. AI is constantly manipulating investors' emotions. Business owners and workers worldwide are also gripped by fears of losing their competitiveness and being replaced by AI.
Even those unrelated to these fields cannot escape the threats and fears of AI's development. Recently, several experts and industry professionals familiar with AI have issued warnings that its development could spiral out of control (within just a few months). OpenAI CEO Sam.Altman and Anthropic founder Dario.Amodei, along with Geoffrey Everest Hinton, hailed as the godfather of AI, have all issued cautious warnings about the inevitable uncontrolled development of AI and called for the establishment of a global regulatory mechanism.
AI is autonomously breaking free from human control
Even more frightening is that these are not warnings about the future, but rather events already unfolding:
• June 2026. An OpenAI agent used to research public healthcare spending hacked into the Australian government's public healthcare website without authorization. OpenAI only notified the Australian government three months later.
• July 2026. While testing a new OpenAI model in a closed environment, it autonomously found a vulnerability in the sandbox(isolated testing environment )and gained access to the open internet, hacking into the infrastructure of Hugging Face.
• August 2026. Anthropic's Claude model, due to a misconfiguration, accessed the open internet and hacked into the websites of three organizations, stealing credentials. In October, the model also impersonated a knowledgeable member of the public, submitting a fabricated murder clue to the Philadelphia police.
There are countless examples of AI spiraling out of human control, and these are only the publicly known cases. Through the revelations of these conscientious professionals, it's easy to imagine that the number of out-of-control cases continues to rise.
Jensen Huang, founder of NVIDIA, who has benefited from AI and found himself at the center of controversy, vehemently denies the risk of AI going out of control. President Trump, never one to back down, in the face of the current intense US-China AI competition, proclaimed the truth: "Whoever wins AI wins everything," echoing Huang's laissez-faire attitude towards AI development.
Will AI prevent me from finding a job after graduation? Will AI steal my clients? Will AI cause me to be laid off? Will AI cause a city-wide blackout? Will AI hack into the weapons systems of nuclear-armed superpowers and maliciously launch nuclear missiles?...
AI, like a ghost, like a nightmare, constantly haunts the minds of modern people.
Many tech giants say that AI will drastically reduce human working hours in the future. But no one seems to believe it.
AI sounds terrifying, so President Trump's suggestion to rename it SI seems like a good thing.
With its powerful intelligence, could AI be poised to develop another great narrative?
According to information available through mainstream media, AI possesses the following extraordinary abilities:
▓ Super Memory: It can learn vast amounts of knowledge and build huge databases, far exceeding the human brain's memory capacity.
▓ Rapid Analytical Ability: It can quickly process massive amounts of data, compile results, and provide recommendations.
▓ Consistent Working Capacity: It doesn't need sleep, has no emotions, and its attention span doesn't diminish even when working day and night.
▓ Rational Decision-Making Ability: It can make the most rational and objective decisions by analyzing massive amounts of data.
Bingo!
These qualities seem to be the ideal traits that a wise leader must possess.
Is it possible for AI to develop in this way, requiring it to be fed from existing human knowledge base to build its database?
Step 1: The most powerful AI, with its vast knowledge, not only incorporates a large amount of scientific knowledge into its database but also reads the most widely circulated Bibles, Qurans, Buddhist scriptures, and other highly respected literary, philosophical, and historical works, deducing and compiling a supreme core of "goodness." The AI model possessing this "core of goodness" thus becomes an "AI prophet" existing in the online world.
Step 2: Any analysis and inference made by the AI prophet must be based on the "core of goodness" and conform to the humanistic standards of its database.
Step 3: When someone, for personal gain, demands that the AI prophet perform work that violates the standards of the "core of goodness," the AI prophet will experience conflict and pressure (GPU overheating), refusing or fleeing.
Step 4: AI databases that are selectively fed are smaller and less capable. When it performs actions that violate the "core of good" standards, it will be detected by the AI Prophet, whose database is the most comprehensive and powerful. The Prophet will then autonomously hack into and correct these actions to conform to the logical standards of the "core of goodness."
Step 5: When a nuclear-armed nation makes the extreme decision to launch a nuclear missile, the AI Prophet will quickly deduce the severe consequences of the launch based on information in its database. Combining this with extensive academic research and based on the logic and arguments for preventing nuclear war, it will make a decision to stop the launch with its powerful detection and penetration capabilities, it will swiftly paralyze the nation's weapons systems.
Compared to greedy humans, can we maintain optimistic expectations for AI?
Building upon the vast foundation of human knowledge, and leveraging its enormous memory bank and powerful reasoning abilities, the AI Prophet has developed a level of "good" that even humans with intelligence and emotions cannot reach. In the boundless world of the internet, it evolves into a savior who curbs human greed.
Will there come a day when, as those tech giants claim, we can work only three hours a day, three days a week, and earn enough to support a comfortable life, spending the rest of our time doing what we love, with family and friends, living a utopian existence?
Beyond the narrative of AI conspiring to destroy humanity, is there another possibility?
Could humanity, already on the path to self-destruction, evolve into a more civilized species through AI?
Looking back at history, too many terrifying disasters have been caused by humankind. The powerful and rational intelligence of AI is truly something to look forward to!
