WORLD - AI and the Techno-Utopian Path Not Taken
The specter of communism is once again haunting America, but this time it’s digital. MIT economist Daron Acemoglu poses a provocative question: ‘Would AI-enabled communism work?’ Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen wonders if ‘China [will] create communist AI?’ Even Republican firebrand Vivek Ramaswamy has jumped into the fray, comparing ‘pro-communist AI’ to Covid-19. Yet, amid the panic, no one really knows what ‘communist AI’ means. Would it follow China’s tech model, with domestic platforms mirroring American corporations but under tight state control? Or would it embrace a European welfare state approach, centralizing AI development within public institutions?
But is a socialized AI economy the best we can aim for, or is it too much of a capitulation to Silicon Valley? Can ‘socialist’ or ‘communist’ AI offer more than just a shift in ownership and control of data, models and computing infrastructures? Is there a deeper, more transformative potential in this strange idea?
-mondediplo.com, August 2024
Arno's Commentary
In John C. Lennox’s book 2084, he quotes a statement by Vladimir Putin to introduce chapter 7, “Artificial General Intelligence: The Future Is Dark?”
Artificial intelligence is the future not only for Russia but [also] for all humankind. It comes with colossal opportunities, but also threats that are difficult to predict. Whoever becomes the leader in this sphere will become the ruler of the world.
When analyzing AI, we come to the conclusion that there is no such thing. AI has no feelings, experiences no pain, no joy, no remorse, no sickness, no dying, no hope. But AI will create the ultimate manmade god. Whether it be communism, socialism, or capitalism, the end is revealed in one person—the man who is known as Antichrist: “Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God” (2 Thessalonians 2:4).
Arno Froese is the executive director of Midnight Call Ministries and editor-in-chief of the acclaimed prophetic magazines Midnight Call and News From Israel. He has authored a number of well-received books, and has sponsored many prophecy conferences in the U.S., Canada, and Israel. His extensive travels have contributed to his keen insight into Bible prophecy, as he sees it from an international perspective.
