I find it deeply disturbing that there is now a machine that is considered to be a Saudi Arabian citizen. I find it deeply disturbing that this machine has more rights than most women in that same country. I find it deeply disturbing that nobody is worried about solving real-life problems like poverty, hunger, violence and climate change. Creating robots, robot pets, intelligent devices or cars or whatever, seems secondary. Tertiary even. I find it ridiculous that we insist on considering artificial intelligence as being helpful to human life. Not only is it not helpful, it is destructive. Exploiting the Earth will not benefit us. When will humans care for nature as much as they care for their smartphones or laptops and stop polluting, overproducing, wasting the planet? When there’s no return. I re-watched Pocahontas the other day and this is what it is about. A capitalist society getting to virgin land, looking for gold to make someone rich, “civilize” the land, exploit it ‘til there’s no more. And I find all this deeply disturbing.
