We print a fragment of the book by Grzegorz Osiński entitled “The Digital of Slaves. Transhumanism in Practice”, which was published by Prohibit's Warsaw publishing house.
Grzegorz Osiński (1967-2022) – quantum physicist, computer scientist and cognitiveist, in his last pre-death publication directed to the widest possible audience, writes in an accessible way about the dangers of artificial intelligence, ubiquitous algorithms and the increasingly dominant function of large TECH corporations.
How much do they truly know about us? Do they know more about us than our loved ones? And if so, what do they do or intend to do with this cognition in the future? Is it just about advertising issues, or is it about global governance of full societies, social temper control, expectations, needs, or yet political choices? Or do they want to go further, to make our "digital twins" according to what transhumanists have been announcing for years?
Are we as full societies digital slaves without even realizing it? Is there any way out of this trap where the full planet is trapped?
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We already know that people's online activity is closely followed by a full group of specialized algorithms to then save them in the form of immense data sets on large Tech servers. The top interest is not our individual information, protected by the GDPR directive, but data on our subtle and subjective emotional changes. The surveillance of human feelings, momentary sensations, or emotional profiles is simply a very crucial part of the strategy to construct fresh DL-type algorithms that will be able to learn how to change human emotional states, control them and usage them in their projects. any classes of artificial intelligence algorithms are already so advanced that it doesn't even substance if we own an account on the social network. Even if we have never utilized services specified as Twitter or Facebook, but at least 5 of our friends in real life have specified an account, algorithms are able to find our emotional level. This is possible due to the fact that in the real world, we are connected with our friends by natural emotional bonds and algorithms are able to distill information about us indirectly, based on a thorough emotional analysis of our friends. There is besides a very akin situation erstwhile utilizing mobile phones, we may not have our own, but if respective of our friends have it, collecting information about us is no longer a serious problem for specialized algorithms. It is possible to usage specified methods due to the fact that any users are so powerfully attached to digital devices, and in peculiar to a mobile phone, that they do not break up even for a moment. This allows for indirect analysis of people who are in the real planet in close relationships, but 1 does not usage a mobile phone. We do not frequently realize how much information we supply about our emotional states present through electronic devices, and appropriate algorithms can usage this.
Therefore, we should not be amazed that it is already possible to construct specified digital twins that will be able to simulate emotional profiles that will be indistinguishable for people who know the first man from real life. Although it will truly be to establish emotional relationships with artificial intelligence through advanced digital devices. specified an analysis of human emotional states is frequently called the specialized word "sentiment analysis". nipponese company Vinclu produces virtual partners who are visualized as characters from anime films, very popular among nipponese youth. Akihiko Kondo, a 33-year-old school admin from Tokyo, legally married a virtual device imitating a partner. specified a device is called Gatebox, and it is simply a half-meter wall, inside which a three-dimensional hologram is visualized. In Mr. Kondo's case, the algorithm simulated a replica of Hatsune Miku, an animated anime vocalist created by Crypton Future. The digital character placed in Gatebox not only communicates with natural language, but besides sings utilizing the Vocaloid system, a musical simulation of artificial intelligence produced by Yamaha. The digital partner can talk on different topics, wake up, check the weather forecast, read books, and Vinclu advertises her with the slogan “the figure you want to spend your life with.” They are programmed utilizing specialized algorithms according to the classification of profiling levels of affirmative emotions with symmetrical empathy.
It can be assumed, of course, that Mr Kondo's strong emotional relation with virtual simulation can be caused not only by the efficiency of algorithms managing human emotions, but besides by nipponese intellectual problems. And it turns out that he had been treated with deep depression in the past, isolated from another people, and attempted suicide. If his case were considered in terms of the treatment of psychiatric disorders, then with appropriate medical consultation, possibly specified simulation could act as supportive therapy. But the media made this event a marketing component not only aimed at achieving profit, but besides at promoting the ideology of transhumanism. The media reported that “Kondo and Miku” married “outside dimensions” in the virtual world. Thus, the law on marriage, which exists in the real world, can already be observed by simulation in the virtual world. This far-reaching process of dehumanization continues to progress, covering always wider areas of so-far typical human activity. After all, already in 2017, Chinese engineer Zheng Jiajia, an expert in artificial intelligence, married a robot resembling a female he himself built. The problem of relationships between people and machines is already discussed by digital humanities specialists, David Levy, an expert in artificial intelligence, believes that advancement in the field of artificial intelligence and robotics will lead to legalization of marriages between “homo” and “job” as early as the 1940s. Today, Vinclu's virtual partner costs about $1,500, and orders are counted in thousands of pieces per month.
So we can see that the ideology of transhumanism is already entering very profoundly into our lives and has a immense impact on children and young people, whose natural emotional systems are not yet full mature, and so the algorithms specified as "sentimel analysis" can effectively manipulate their emotions. Even adults already have problems caused by specified continuous training by specialized digital systems. However, it is much more dangerous to objectify a individual and to reduce his aspirations and desires to immediately satisfying instincts, which in the digital environment are much simpler in implementation than in real life. In order for corporations to make certain profits, human behaviour must be manageable and predictable. After all, the point is to make certain that business is profitable with as small investment hazard as possible. specified actions must lead to unification of different ways of reasoning and acting. The freedom that net technology was expected to bring us is thus turning into a prison, from which in a minute there will be no longer anywhere to escape and digital slaves will live in a synthetic planet of algorithmically controlled emotions and desires.
We should realize that emotional control is simply a powerful weapon, and if individual wants to distract from the most crucial and dangerous problems that our civilization is facing today, the simplest way is to make strong negative emotions of fear and uncertainty. After all, we are afraid of the “chips” implanted into our body and forget that the most dangerous “chips” is our mobile phone, which we do not even request to carry, it is adequate that our friends have it. We are instinctively afraid of 5G technology and laser optical networks and forget that the IT infrastructure that surrounds us present is completely adequate for global surveillance. It was possibly best presented by Archbishop Marek Jędraszewski during 29. The Pilgrimage of the Radio household Mary on Jasna Góra, stating: “The place of nonsubjective fact is occupied by post-truth, relativism, lie and fake-newsy. In this spiritual void, people become completely defenseless against ideologies increasing – like Bolshevikism – from Marxist roots, undermining the institution of matrimony and family, and creating programs aimed at the moral depravity of children and youth. Humanity of people who cannot be and make without truth, goodness and beauty is already threatened in its very foundations. The place of Christian humanism wants to take the place of antihumanism, the place of nonsubjective and lasting values – nihilism, the place of a human being created on God's image and likeness – a unusual being devoid of identity, spent on the prey of deceptive and short-lived sensual pleasures.”
The book is available for sale at the bookstore Multibook.pl
