As a digital artist, I find myself a character in one of my favorite sci-fi movies. This is happening right now, and living artists are finding themselves the beleaguered Resistance fighting against an encroaching invasion of nearly invincible Art Terminators. When AI defeats the last human artist, we are doomed as a species. We are already backed in a corner with art as our last and best hope. The best indicator of whether or not AI can defeat us thinking, feeling, self-aware, caring, vulnerable and mortal biological beings is whether or not it can make better art than us. Our only hope as a species is that our consciousness, feelings, empathy, creativity and imagination can give us an edge against soulless AI, which doesn’t even know that it exists. When Elon says that “digital super intelligence ” is a “fundamental species level risk” to humankind, he means it, and he knows what he’s talking about. If AI is able to outperform humans at every mental activity, and robotics to best us at every physical task, we will have rendered ourselves a redundant and inferior species! Elon Musk’s claims about the threat of AI might seem hyperbolic at first glance, but these are the sober estimations of a man who is developing driver-less cars, and is planning on bringing an army of personal all-purpose robots to the marketplace. Mark my words, AI is far more dangerous than nukes. The danger of Ai is much greater than the danger of nuclear warheads, by a lot. “The people bowed and prayed to the neon God they made,” image by AI, from my text prompt. Simon and Garfunkel, The Sound of Silence, 1964.
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