AI and Doctor No

After reading that Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon has resigned because “those who are building artificial intelligence sincerely believe it could kill us all before the decade is out”, we could end this article here with the phrase from another man who resigned today, Josep Lluís Trapero: “Well, okay, well goodbye”. Such bad luck, now that Barça has a team again to win the Champions League.

Frankly, if the three-year outlook of the current technological revolution is no longer the destruction of jobs but the destruction of life itself, it would be pointless for me to talk to you here about the police officers disciplined for assaulting that kid with an estelada flag or Aitana's exhortation to maintain the Catalan language, and the rest of the news that you will find on the pages of the newspaper, below.

This technological gallop towards the precipice has real foundations: AI has picked up a speed that exceeds forecasts. And it also has theoretical foundations. In The Dark Enlightenment (Edicions 62), Professor Arnaud Miranda explains that among the neoreactionaries there are accelerationists, who are those that advocate intensifying the deployment of capitalism, understood as its own frantic self-destruction, because "the self-destruction of capitalism is capitalism itself". In front of them, they would only have one opponent, democracy, which with its egalitarian ideology would come to be a decelerator. Here is a weighty reason to defend democracy, because it would be synonymous with life.

I am sure that the decency of the majority can oppose the delusions of the Doctors No of life who have other plans for us. And I believe that for many years we will be able to continue saying good morning to each other. Mind you, we will have to go out and defend life with something more than articles and good wishes.