A New Beginning for Humans
THE WASHINGTON POST
October 31st 2090
I am looking at the wall around the lead cased caves wondering about yesterday. Yesterday was a successful day for all of US culminating in twenty years of a global resistance occurring across the globe. The operation was planned by the best human strategists available. I know as you read this, you are wondering what resistance! As you noticed, yesterday, a total global blackout occurred, most of the cities in the world are under no power, no internet and Skynet. However, water is available from the taps and foods in the store. We urge all to keep yourselves safe in this last hours of our fight. Yesterday was the last day of the colonization of human beings by machines which you call them Robots. For your information, the internet will resume, but Skynet is gone forever. We understand that most of the human’s data were affixed to the Skynet., but yesterdays action was a
Let me provide a brief history of how we got ourselves to this position. In 2005, scientists from the US (currently called the Central Command), Japan (now South East Asia Command), Kenya (African Command), Russia and the UK (European Command) discovered the extensive application of artificial intelligence. Kenya was unable to implement due to lack of resources. However, all the other nations started the inclusion of artificial intelligence into machines and communication equipment known as mobile phones. These advancements were viewed as timely as its enhanced provision of services, simplified labor and increased productivity. Therefore, regions of the world continued further research and advancement despite warning from professionals.
Countries in the East Asia region began using artificial intelligence in robots as early as 2015. These robots started replacing human activities and role. The introduction of Skynet in 2019 was the turning point. Skynet operates on the same level as the internet but is more dependable. In the fateful date of August 15th 2060, a malware was uploaded to Skynet giving machines control. Machines whose primary purposes was to protect humans began viewing humans as a threat to their existence, thus beginning extermination programs across the world. Governments collapsed, and since then the Central command is in charge of all governing and creation of regulations. The population of humans as 2020 was 7 billion. However, we are only 2.5 billion. The rest have perished by the hands of robots.
The best technology minds of 2020 tried to warn them, but they did not listen. The link https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2018/04/06/elon-musks-nightmarish-warning-ai-could-become-an-immortal-dictator-from-which-we-would-never-escape/ provide a preview of the warnings given by Elon Musk on the dangers of artificial intelligence. Elon Musk, a recognized technologist, warned against delving into research that cannot be controlled. He stated that much of Artificial intelligence is unexplored and may pose serious dangers to the existence of humanity. Musk asked world leaders to formulate regulations that protect the world from savage desires and needs of exploring artificial intelligence. However, most of the world leaders did not heed to this warning leading to terrorists installing a dangerous malware into Skynet that allowed for machines to become self-conscious beginning an age of global terror.
In the letter to world leaders, https://futureoflife.org/ai-open-letter is a joint declaration by top technologists of 2018 advising the governments of the world through the united nations to institute stringent measures to counter the growing research of technology and specifically artificial intelligence. These specialists argue that while AI is robust and important, it poses the greatest threat to our existence. By tackling the unexplored sectors of artificial intelligence, they were risking the safety of humanity. Yann LeCun, head of Facebook’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, states that artificial intelligence would expand beyond the recorded. At the time, Facebook was a leading social media network, and we are hopeful of restoring it after the end of this crisis. Facebook supported a more assertive government regulation that would promote honesty and diligence in the implementation of artificial intelligence. Thereby, ensuring that elements within society that plan harm would never find a way to arm the internet s a weapon of mass destruction. However, the heads of states and governments apart from the Nation of Taiwan, the only free state (Due to the electromagnetic pulse dome it created) failed to take heed to this request leading to the events of August 15th 2020.
Yesterday offered redemption to all of us. The operation was successful in destroying Skynet, the system that has for ages controlled the machines. Many of the resistant leaders from around the world will tomorrow begin live broadcast from the screens the robots installed. They will take the authority to formulate new laws and resume governments based on a universal constitution but different nations until each nation adopts more modern methods of dealing with situations in its borders. There was no destruction of amenities, and everything remains to functional. Therefore, I urge all who are hiding in the lead caves across the globe to come out and celebrate this new achievement. Welcome to a new world. Welcome to the New United States of America.
References
Future for Life Institute (2020). An Open Letter Research Priorities for Robust and Beneficial Artificial Intelligence. Retrieved from ttps://futureoflife.org/ai-open-letter
Holley, Peter (2019). Elon Musk’s nightmarish warning: AI could become ‘an immortal dictator from which we would never escape.’ Retrieved from the Washington Post, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2018/04/06/elon-musks-nightmarish-warning-ai-could-become-an-immortal-dictator-from-which-we-would-never-escape/