I heard a program on the radio this morning with a guest in business using AI in dozens of fields to improve life.
The key—with access to sufficient information in real time, we will be able to solve, predict, and prevent ills that plague us and kill us.
So, I write about AI.


Science and medicine and technology have been saying for many decades, “If we just had more information, if we discovered just the right thing, if we just had bigger and faster computers working together, if only . . ., then breakthroughs for better life and health are just around the corner.”

Those scientific promises compete only with political promises.
And we keep believing, and we keep funding, the next promise.
And just what is “just around the corner”?
Another set of promises (with some breakthroughs).
And we keep believing and funding . . .

Why ?

The power of hope.
The power of power.
The power of promises for more, in exchange for less freedom of choice.

We have been royally and masterfully conditioned for some time with all the good things that technology can buy (or give us).
And now, that technology (those in charge of it) is calling the card, the game.

We have wondered all along where all this advancement at lightning speed could lead, and could it turn to bite us—or worse ?
We are starting to find out.

Back to the title, with the brackets, and without the brackets.
AI SAYS, [IF] [ONLY], [THEN] . . .
Actually, that’s what science and technology say, “If only, then . . .”

Somehow, somewhere, someone determined that now was the right time to play the AI card to the world.

AI eliminates the “IF”—and is rapidly building the “ONLY”—and is threatening, about to demonstrate what it can do “THEN”.

Every weapon ever invented in all history, has been used—for good—for evil.
The breakthroughs in advancement and use of weapons has been fascinating, and scary.
AI is all that, and more.
No one seems to know how it will get used ultimately—except the people who are in charge of controlling it (or who think they are).

I believe someone will take the opportunity to use AI to try to control the world.

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It’s ‘hard’ to recall a nuke that’s been fired.