(well, still working on new piece and will have to wait until tomorrow now. in meantime, here are two separate posts from last year that garnered very high numbers:)
An article published May 19 by the New York Post, with the headline: “OpenAI cofounder wanted to build doomsday bunker to protect scientists from ‘rapture’ ” reads in part:
“The co-founder of ChatGPT maker OpenAI proposed building a doomsday bunker that would house the company’s top researchers in case of a 'rapture' triggered by the release of a new form of artificial intelligence that could surpass the cognitive abilities of humans, according to a new book.
“Ilya Sutskever, the man credited with being the brains behind ChatGPT, convened a meeting with key scientists at OpenAI in the summer of 2023 during which he said: ‘Once we all get into the bunker…’
“A confused researcher interrupted him. ‘I’m sorry,’ the researcher asked, ‘the bunker?’
“ ‘We’re definitely going to build a bunker before we release AGI,’ Sutskever replied, according to an attendee.
“The plan, he explained, would be to protect OpenAI’s core scientists from what he anticipated could be geopolitical chaos or violent competition between world powers once AGI — an artificial intelligence that exceeds human capabilities — is released.
“One OpenAI researcher went so far as to say that ‘there is a group of people — Ilya being one of them — who believe that building AGI will bring about a rapture. Literally, a rapture.’
“In May 2023, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman co-signed a public letter warning that AI technologies could pose an ‘extinction risk’ to humanity. But while the letter sought to shape regulatory discussions, the bunker talk suggests deeper, more personal fears among OpenAI’s leadership.”
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Here is some analysis of the story from a Christian YouTuber:
“It seems like for whatever reason now we have these tech gurus who are afraid of the ‘rapture’ and it kind of puts into perspective what all these underground bunkers, these underground cities and so forth are being made for.
“Haven’t you noticed that more and more of these tech gurus, when they talk about AI, they never talk about AI in a positive light or refer to them in a positive way?
“They say they are summoning the devil, calling them demons or devils, ‘The Great Old Ones’ or ‘Great Old Gods.’ They talk about AI like they’re scared of it, yet when you or I talk about this, when we say that AI is progressing too quickly, or it could doom humanity, we’re just crazy, kooky conspiracy theorists and nut jobs who hate technology.
“I just feel like certain news stories, like the Diddy trial, or phase one of certain files being released on Epstein and so forth, are meant to distract us away from the expansive growth of AI.
“I’m not the only one who feels this way. Geordie Rose, the founder and CEO of D-Wave, made this statement on AI: “Massively important for our entire species to navigate, and going back to that thing Sam Harris was saying, nobody is paying attention. This thing is happening in the background while people bicker about politics and health care, and underneath it all is this rising tsunami that, if we’re not careful, is going to wipe us all out.”
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In other AI news:
“I consider this a very, very large development: ‘xAI, TWG Global and Palantir unite to redefine financial services through AI.’ Don’t forget we just had the Stargate initiated by Trump a couple of months ago. Three mega-conglomerate tech companies conspire (oh, I mean unite) to better your health.
“Oh, yeah, it’s all about developing MRNA vaccines in order to cure cancer and whatnot, right? Well, this time it’s targeting the financial services. This is a BIG deal. Oh, and don’t forget, Elon Musk sold X (Twitter) to his own company, xAI, for (surprise, surprise) 33 billion. This is absolutely a HUGE deal for all these mega-companies, tech companies, to be UNITING (“Where we go one we go all” level stuff) to take over the financial and health systems. That’s what Stargate is all about. The key players behind Stargate—remember Oracle, SoftBank and OpenAI. This is happening; game on.”
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“What will humans do in Musk's robotic future? Certainly not working, Elon Musk wrote in an October X post,” reports Business Insider.
"AI and robots will replace all jobs," he wrote. "Working will be optional, like growing your own vegetables, instead of buying them from the store."
In a speech the other week, Musk predicted Tesla's Optimus robot “will actually eliminate poverty.”
“Minutes earlier, the crowd cheered and broke out into chants of ‘Elon, Elon!’ as shareholders approved Musk's $1 trillion pay package. The Tesla CEO — who is the world's richest person — will unlock up to $1 trillion in shares if Tesla achieves a series of lofty targets, including selling one million Optimus robots in the next decade,” says Business Insider.
Here is analysis from a Christian YouTuber:
Elon Musk is proposing an idea that his Tesla Optimus Robots will follow criminals around to make sure they never offend again and people will be on board with ideas like this.
We’re already seeing MAGA onboard with Palantir and ICE being able to track civilians via their technology and trace their movements.
We’re seeing everybody out there who once cared about this thing called “privacy” no longer care about it. We’re seeing those once worried about a surveillance state actually on board with Donald Trump and these big tech giants building out a surveillance state.
They don’t tell you what the crime could actually be. People just automatically hear about repeat offenders because the media’s constantly let us know that all these crimes being committed are from Democrats letting these convicts out of prison, who then go and commit the crime again. Think about how many times we heard these stories over the last couple of years where we keep hearing the term “repeat offender.”
Well, here’s the idea to solve the problem. Instead of overcrowding our prisons, because your home is going to be your prison once they initiate the carbon laws, “What we’ll do is have these Tesla robots follow you around—a personal handler.”
Not only does Musk talk about people being assigned for free their own Tesla robot that will be listening to everything they say, watching where they go and what they do, and you think this if for extreme offenders like murderers or rapists, but this is just going to be for people who disagree with the government.
People who, by the time 2030 rolls around, won’t be able to criticize the state of Israel, or have differences of opinions from what the current government regime tells them they’re supposed to think, and how they’re supposed to eat, and how they’re supposed to treat other people, and every other thing that Big Brother wants to control because it’s all about behavioral control . . .
Keep in mind, Musk is also talking about a “universal high income” for all that will "eliminate poverty." He put out a tweet about having Optimus replace human surgeons because, again, remember we hear about AI becoming big in the medical field . . . he said we won’t have to worry about the price of healthcare anymore.
People out there are on board will all this stuff because all it took was for Elon Musk to jump out on stage next to Donald Trump. All it took was for Musk to start saying he believes in Jesus Christ, like all these guys suddenly telling you they have found faith in Jesus Christ. Guys who for years and years talked about being atheists are all suddenly Christian and getting you on board with things like Tesla robots and autonomous vehicles and everything else they have planned for us.
Notice how they changed the wording from “universal income” to “universal HIGH income” so conservatives who always complain about their tax money going to Democrats who don’t want to work and want to sit home and watch video games, well, all they need to do is change the wording so people think, “Well, it will be universal high income, so yes, let’s build these robots out so they can follow around criminals AND so they can take all of our jobs away.”
Elon was even tweeting this out proudly because he’s fully on board with universal high income just like he’s fully on board with climate laws being in place, and if you understand what the plan is with Agenda 2030, and how these things tie together for human enslavement, you’ll start to see what’s really being built out around you.
In his speech, Musk talks about a time where we won’t need money; in fact, your wealth will be measured in how much energy you can provide. I guess that does us no good because we’re not allowed to actually generate free energy; they’re allowed to control all those things.
So, if you own Tesla, say, which provides a lot of energy, you’ll be the king of the world on top of the mountain while the rest of us, well, we’ll just be getting whipped in the rear end by Tesla bots.