In the book warning about Artificial Intelligence by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, they draw the conclusion that if a computer-based system is created that reaches the functional level of Superintelligence, exceeding that of human beings, we are doomed because it will destroy us, inevitably. However, you have told us that it is a false belief and result of over-reaching, to conclude that human-created Superintelligent AI systems are possible. Can you help us understand the risk level we will reach in the attempt to create such a system?

This is difficult to describe with precision because AI has so many applications and thus countless roles it can play, and implications for what its interactions with human beings at all levels of society might bring about, and what the consequences might be for human welfare. You have seen already there are growing pains and many pros and cons with existing systems. When used for things like pattern matching, information storage and retrieval, or mathematical analysis, including engineering applications like imaging systems used in medical diagnosis, the track record is quite acceptable compared to human manual methods of performance and evaluation. So, what will be seen at first is the struggle to identify at what point use of an AI system is truly cost-effective, and adjusting things so there is enough human oversight and participation as the ultimate arbiter of such platforms before they have unilateral control of things. In being trusted to carry out complex operations that lead to real-world consequences, including even things like commercial transactions, where making the right decision is quite important to avoid costly returns, restocking fees, lost time and productivity, and reworking plans to take an alternative path and perhaps even start over, we think ultimately the level of performance will prove to be acceptable enough it will be tolerated and relied on as a first-line offering by many organizations and websites. Especially as operations grow to be sizable, there are many situations where paying for enough human customer service becomes unproductive and unwieldy. In the past, this has simply been considered unavoidable. So, the AI systems will have a place and the risks along the way will tend to grow because the needs of organizations to cut costs will be seen by management as more critical than making customer satisfaction a higher priority. So, we see there will be a cheapening in the quality of life and a degradation of human society that is inevitable and is already underway. The end of humanity will not come through AI because you will not be here long enough for that to happen. It will be either at the hands of the Extraterrestrial Alliance if you cannot reach the turning point to launch Ascension for the bulk of humanity in time to avoid the annihilation they plan to carry out eventually, or, with successful healing sufficient to raise up the vibration of humanity on average, once an Ascension gets underway, that will allow humanity to escape the physical, unscathed further by such dire events coming about. The latter is what we are counting on now and see as being doable if the healing efforts continue at the current rate. So, in the final analysis, the agonizing over AI will be part of a final chapter of human existence as earthlings, and as such, will merely be symptomatic of the human dilemma in having been misled for so long, down the garden path of relying on technology in lieu of spiritual solutions as a priority.