1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:00,976 2 00:00:00,976 --> 00:00:09,000 In a conversation, Sam Altman, the head of the AI company OpenAI, described his plans for a ChatGPT successor. 3 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:15,679 This is supposed to be ready for use in the coming months. Altman said the following: 4 00:00:15,679 --> 00:00:25,048 "I believe we are close to a world in which you can have a successor to ChatGPT that watches your computer screen all the 5 00:00:25,048 --> 00:00:32,017 time, follows every meeting you attend, records every call, and thus has a perfect context 6 00:00:32,017 --> 00:00:37,279 of your entire life – of everything you see." 7 00:00:37,279 --> 00:00:42,840 Soon, the AI will therefore not only respond to requests but act proactively. 8 00:00:42,840 --> 00:00:51,161 It will suggest ideas, recognize potential problems, and support everyday life. What a brave new world! 9 00:00:51,161 --> 00:00:57,736 By comparison, classic dystopias like 1984 – "Big Brother is watching you" – seem like a harmless puppet show, 10 00:00:57,736 --> 00:01:02,178 because Orwell's observers were still sitting behind a wall. 11 00:01:02,178 --> 00:01:08,526 Altman's observers sit in your own smartphone or PC and soon in your own brain. 12 00:01:08,526 --> 00:01:12,650 They become constant companions, supposed friends. 13 00:01:12,650 --> 00:01:15,343 The bait of convenience is tempting. 14 00:01:15,343 --> 00:01:23,476 Who wouldn't want to outsource a few annoying appointments or be supported at work by a perfect authority? 15 00:01:23,476 --> 00:01:30,363 But as soon as people become dependent on the new AI supports, the AI will begin to reprimand them. 16 00:01:30,363 --> 00:01:37,520 The narrow line between "support" and "patronization" will then no longer be defined by the users but by algorithms. 17 00:01:37,520 --> 00:01:41,204 Thus, proactive help becomes patronizing intervention. 18 00:01:41,204 --> 00:01:47,020 Here are some examples of what that looks like in concrete terms: 19 00:01:47,020 --> 00:01:50,695 1. You want to write a critical comment about government policy? 20 00:01:50,695 --> 00:01:55,437 The AI, which monitors every keystroke, "corrects" the text in advance. 21 00:01:55,437 --> 00:02:00,780 It proposes more harmless formulations or does not publish the post at all because it 22 00:02:00,780 --> 00:02:04,040 is classified as "incorrect" or "polarizing". 23 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:11,060 Google's AI is already blocking harmless reviews based on its own definitions. 24 00:02:11,060 --> 00:02:15,078 2. One searches for information on controversially discussed topics online? 25 00:02:15,078 --> 00:02:22,414 The AI filters the search results and only shows those sources that it considers "trustworthy" – that is, system-compliant. 26 00:02:22,414 --> 00:02:25,585 Shadow banning already exists in social media. 27 00:02:25,585 --> 00:02:34,269 The content is not blocked, but it is no longer displayed in search and thus no longer made available to subscribers. 28 00:02:35,769 --> 00:02:39,906 3. Reading and writing are no longer necessary, because AI summarizes demanding 29 00:02:39,906 --> 00:02:42,683 texts or writes entire articles and speeches. 30 00:02:42,683 --> 00:02:49,870 The publicist Tom-Oliver Regenauer recently wrote about this in a position paper: 31 00:02:49,870 --> 00:02:56,020 "Whoever outsources reading, thinking, and writing unlearns them – and very quickly at that. 32 00:02:56,020 --> 00:03:01,599 The brain is comparable to a muscle. If it is not trained, it atrophies... 33 00:03:01,599 --> 00:03:10,049 If one considers what fatal consequences the introduction of the smartphone since 2007 has produced, it does not take much 34 00:03:10,049 --> 00:03:16,005 imagination to extrapolate what effects AI will have on the cognitive abilities of our 35 00:03:16,005 --> 00:03:19,616 species in a disproportionately shorter time. 36 00:03:19,616 --> 00:03:26,343 AI is – like the smartphone – first and foremost military technology and an instrument of degeneration. 37 00:03:26,343 --> 00:03:32,294 A tool that the fewest can use responsibly and productively. 38 00:03:32,294 --> 00:03:38,755 The orientation-, will- and thoughtless "smombies," who already shape the cityscape, do 39 00:03:38,755 --> 00:03:43,840 not yet seem to serve as a deterrent example." 40 00:03:43,840 --> 00:03:49,367 4. After a very short time, the AI recognizes personal political views, reads private messages 41 00:03:49,367 --> 00:03:52,821 and knows the relationship and contact network. 42 00:03:52,821 --> 00:03:58,580 It does not use this knowledge to support people in their development, but to "optimize" them. 43 00:03:58,580 --> 00:04:02,526 In plain terms, this means: adaptation to the required norm. 44 00:04:02,526 --> 00:04:10,245 Nudging, i.e. subtle opinion control, was already successfully mass-tested during the Corona years. 45 00:04:10,245 --> 00:04:15,040 So how much power do we, the users, want to give ChatGPT and Co.? 46 00:04:15,040 --> 00:04:19,198 Tom-Oliver Regenauer makes a clear statement on this: 47 00:04:19,198 --> 00:04:27,392 "I refuse to train a system that permanently spies on me and already has the potential to kill me. 48 00:04:27,392 --> 00:04:36,490 Because that is exactly what Palantir, ChatGPT from OpenAI, Claude from Anthropic and Grok from SpaceXAI are already doing 49 00:04:36,490 --> 00:04:43,948 today in Gaza, Ukraine, Iran and other war zones, where autonomous weapons systems are controlled by 50 00:04:43,948 --> 00:04:52,424 precisely these systems – just like those mini-drones that, according to EUROPOL, will soon patrol our cities. 51 00:04:52,424 --> 00:05:00,370 Anyone who uses AI systems trains "SkyNet," a central database that will control the real "Terminator." 52 00:05:00,370 --> 00:05:06,784 And thanks to Boston Dynamics, Unitree and Tesla, it will soon be at our door."