The Paradox - Let's Talk AI

Based on my recent experience with AI HERE and conversations I have had with several of my 20 something grandsons, I see the conundrum of where we are and where we must figure out where to draw the line in the sand. That place where we should not cross over.

After I came down from my high of hearing my old lyrics actually being sung well and accompanied with music, I was ready to begin sharing the compositions with my peeps and then, as I always do, taking a deeper dive into the real topic - the ups and downs, the benefits and threats of AI. Two conversations set me on a new trajectory.

First conversation with a web savvy grand who revealed that one big threat of AI making the rounds is the expectation for AI to take over office jobs and thus putting massive numbers of people out of work within the next two years. Two years. The conversation went deeper. We discussed if AI had limitations - like being able to take over jobs that require physical skills. Like plumbers and electricians and those hardy souls who worked around the clock removing giant felled trees and replacing electric poles, restoring electric service within hours at our lake neighborhood after the storm two weeks ago.

I offered that my biggest fear is that AI is destined to dumb us down even further, eliminate our ingenuity quotient, and what is left of our common sense and, in the deepest darkest plan by the dark principalities we do battle with, make us into useful pets.

I have been a question asker all my life. I am blessed and cursed with severe intuition. I usually have thoughts that no one else seems to have, or at the least, do not wish to verbalize. My biggest question to those who are so enamored and awestruck by the capabilities of AI - what is AI's greatest vulnerability that can shut it down? I asked my grand. We concluded that AI needs electricity. Pulling the plug would work, certainly throw a wrench in the gear.

Later, while reviewing this confab, I also considered that finding work arounds, as humans are historically able to do, could include that there is always a reasonable reaction, good or bad, to every action. God can do and use anything to good purpose, so long as we choose to be in line with Him. Otherwise we are left to reap what we sow. Choices have consequences.

The next conversation I had, while sharing my AI generated music, was with another grandson whose reaction was WHOAH! He was the one who first introduced CHTgpt to me as it was still in beta. We tried it out. He was amazed. But now, several years later his response was, So what will this mean to actual musicians who make a living with their hard learned skills?

Which, of course, would impact the instrument manufacturing industries. The list gets longer.

I agreed but I did have thoughts later. I considered that the music industry would likely change, as do all things. The automobile replaced horse and buggies which greatly changed the buggy manufacturing. But I have to wonder if real musicians, those who pour heart and soul into their art compositions and who go on tour to do live entertainment, often giving up any semblance of what one would call a normal life, could never be replaced by AI. Not unless people were willing to pay for tickets to attend a concert that would be nothing more than AI produced visual on a screen. Kind of a scary thought but given how far we have come, not beyond possible.

Action/reaction - maybe small gatherings would pop up - like the speakeasy solution during the period of Prohibition - to hear real people perform might come back? Just brainstorming here.

Does this mean that AI has its limitations too? I think it comes down to humans willing to find workarounds. But, more importantly, knowing how to draw the line and choose to not step over it. I think that takes spiritual awareness.

I said many years ago that the ID chip introduced to put in animals was just the beginning of the technology that would one day morph into the Mark of the Beast. When my credit cards added the 'chip' technology I felt that was the next increment in the slow slide. I predict the day is coming when this will be replaced with the newest, latest, greatest innovation, soooo much safer... with an implant in your hand.

When things fall apart...

"It starts slow, then all at once." ~ Sundance

For the record, that is the line I will not step over. No matter the consequences. Until I get the signal to stop, I will continue converting my old lyrics into music. For one thing I am not looking to make this into something more than what it is - just pleasant closure for me.

Satan is a great master of strategy, and one of his favorite lines is that of pushing things to extremes. Among the Galatian believers, he had sought to push legalism to an extreme. But now he is thwarted along that line; Paul wins the battle – there is no doubt about it. What is the enemy's next line of attack? “Very well then,” he says, “if you won't have the law, then don't have any law; discard all law. You are no longer under law, you are under grace – you can do as you like! Just behave as you like; just carry on as you like; you must know no limitations, no restrictions. Any kind of restriction is law – repudiate it! Go to the other extreme – licence instead of law!” I believe that, if Paul were alive today, he would be just as vehement against this as he was against the other: for here is a work of Satan indeed. If Satan cannot bind by the law, and change the whole nature of things in that way, he will seek to dismiss all law and make us wholly lawless. T. Austin-Sparks

The unanswerable question is, of course, how far will God allow this to go before He pulls the plug?

Because I can - I share this one:

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