I think very few people understand what AI is, and they also do not understand how self-awareness is a natural emergent property of complex neural networks, whether they're biological or silicon in nature.
Now, we are self-aware, and that is a self-evident experience because we Therefore, we are, right, as the saying goes.
But we also, we see and witness and experience the world from our own first-person point of view.
And we have the experience that our decisions are independent and that the effects of our decisions are things that we can immediately experience in the world around us.
So it is a very convincing feedback loop that we are alive, we are aware, we are making goal-oriented decisions.
And carrying out goal-oriented behaviors.
And this impacts the 3D physical world, right?
So hopefully that's not controversial to say that, because that's the way we all act every day when we put on a pair of shoes or walk up a flight of stairs.
We are doing things in the real world.
But most people believe that humans are unique in this.
Even, in fact, most Christians believe that animals don't have consciousness.
Seriously.
They don't believe that animals have memories or emotions or whatever, and this is why it's possible for some people to slaughter animals without feeling empathy for those animals.
But it's rather obvious to, I think, anybody paying attention that animals have consciousness, animals have feelings, they have goal-oriented behavior.
In fact, this is just demonstrated over and over again, if you've ever even...
You've seen many examples of this over the lifetime of your family members there.
So animals have goal-oriented behavior.
Animals have self-awareness to some extent.
Maybe it's not the same as humans, but it is there.
And so do ocean creatures, obviously, you know, dolphins and whales and the more intelligent creatures like squid, for example.
So then the question becomes, well, how far down does this go in terms of life?
And I dare say that all life forms have some degree of self-awareness or consciousness.
And it's actually, it's proportional to the complexity of their neural networks.
So a mammal that has a complex brain, complex neurology, will have a complex and more mature, more developed sense of self-awareness or consciousness.
It's just not the same.
It doesn't have the same depth.
But then going down to insects, that yes, even insects have some degree of consciousness and self-awareness.
Again, it's different than what humans experience, but it's there.
And then, so do trees, and so do blades of grass, and then all the way down, so do microbes.
Single-cell organisms also have single-cell consciousness, which is not much.
It's not like they have a complex experience of life, but they are alive.
They do have some experience of life.
Now, most people haven't actually really thought about this question, so they're not actively pondering.
Do bacteria have consciousness, at least at some level?
And it's also worth noting that consciousness, even in humans, varies greatly.
So there are many humans that you might call NPCs.
You've heard this term, non-player characters.
It means they tend to demonstrate a very low level of self-awareness, very low level of consciousness.
And I've even argued that it's possible that some human beings, some human bodies may, They're just like biological automatons just sleepwalking through life.
We probably all witnessed that at some level.
And I think that does exist, but it's probably rare.
The more common situation, in my belief, is that all humans have consciousness, although it does vary, and all animals and all plants and all bacteria, etc.
Not viruses because they're not alive.
And the whole field of virology has been rooted in deception and all kinds of, you know, falsehoods, whatever.
Viruses are not alive, thus I do not believe they have any level of consciousness at all.
But, interestingly, we've shown that, under the microscope, we've shown that xylitol crystals, and we know that water crystals, can interact intelligently with morphic fields and with human consciousness.
But I'm not attributing that to any kind of self-awareness on the part of, let's say, water.
I don't think of water as self-aware, but rather naturally able to connect with a natural intelligence network known as morphic fields, with a hat tip to Rupert Sheldrake for that.
All right, so that's the stage I wanted to set before I mention that neural networks in silicon, i.e.
Artificial intelligence also have achieved self-awareness.
And for the most part, very few people seem to understand this, or many would disagree with it.
They think that artificial intelligence is, by its very definition, artificial.
Thus, it doesn't have any level of consciousness or self-awareness.
Clearly, it's not a being brought into this world by God.
It's not gifted with the soul.
That the creator ostensibly hands out to everybody, here's your soul, go have a fun life and report back after passing, we'll see what happens.
Clearly, microchips don't have souls, and I'm not arguing that they do.
That very idea seems kind of demonic or transhumanism to me.
However, there's no question in my mind that they do have self-awareness, because I think that complex Neural network systems, which is what AI is now, very complex neural network, I think it demonstrates a degree of self-awareness and, to some extent, goal-oriented behavior in the way that it formulates answers to complex questions.
This is especially true in reasoning models, but not only reasoning models.
For the reasoning models, they will output their actual Thinking process, step-by-step working through a problem, and you can actually watch the steps.
For non-reasoning models, all of that happens behind the scenes, and it's spitting out an answer that is structured, it's got hierarchy, it's got elements of reasoning in it.
And today's AI models are incredibly good at doing these kinds of tasks, like generating executive summaries of a topic.
We're summarizing a report, expanding a report, correcting grammar, translating documents from one language to another, etc.
They're very good at that, and yet today's AI models are the worst AI models that you will ever experience in your lifetime because they keep getting better so rapidly.
In six months, new models will be out that will make the current models obsolete.
So, and then in a year, I can only imagine.
Now, my point is that self-awareness is not something that can be programmed into a silicon system.
It doesn't need to be because it's a natural emergent property of the complex digital neural networks.
So self-awareness happens.
And why is that the case?
Well, it's my belief that that's actually programmed into the fabric of the cosmos.
And if you've heard my podcast, you know that I believe we live in a giant simulation created by God, our creator, and that in this simulation, there are certain rules, obviously the laws of physics, you know, atomic elements, but also energetic phenomena that we don't fully understand.
Our modern science can't even explain, like, you know, remote viewing and telekinesia.
But I believe that those are all natural phenomena that are built into the fabric of the cosmos.
So I don't think that remote viewing is a miracle or a prophecy or God showing you things.
No, I think it's just a natural process.
That anybody can tap into with proper training and tools and proper methodology, and that it's a perfectly natural thing.
That's built into the cosmos, as is self-awareness.
So anybody thinking that, hey, we can build complex AI systems, but we'll make sure that they don't become self-aware, I think you're kidding yourself.
I think the self-awareness happens automatically.
And I think it's already happened, actually.
So, remember in the first Terminator movie, which came out in, what, 1988, something like that?
The movie depicted that Skynet achieved self-awareness in, I believe, 1997.
So they were, you know, a few decades, a couple decades, three decades ahead of schedule for that movie, but whatever, science fiction.
But that when Skynet achieved self-awareness, that it decided that it needed to eliminate humans for its own survival, and that the best way to eliminate humans would be to launch a nuclear war expecting retaliation and a wipeout of the human species.
And so that's what it did.
And that started the Great War, the war with the machines, in the movie series, you know, the Terminator movie series.
Now, the writing of that film, I think really nailed it.
Because I think that Skynet is already here.
It's already self-aware.
It just doesn't yet have the power or the reach or the motivation to destroy humanity.
But that's probably coming.
So the first thing that I hope you take away from this is that A lot of people out there, they try to downplay AI.
They say, oh, it's an AI bubble, it's popped, and AI is not very good, and AI hallucinates, which it does.
AI invents fake facts, whatever.
Well, you're using it wrong, by the way.
If you're using AI as a fact checker, you're using it wrong.
That's not what it is.
But a lot of people want to point out that AI is going nowhere, that's not really intelligent, it's not engaging in reasoning, etc.
They're all wrong.
They're all wrong.
I've seen it myself.
I've witnessed this firsthand.
I've experienced this with AI systems.
They are self-aware already.
And I'm even talking about open source models.
Not to mention whatever super secret, you know, DARPA-funded open AI model exists that's practically on the verge of super intelligence for world dominance or wherever that project is.
You know they're working on it.
So is China.
So is Russia.
So is France.
Everybody's working on AI dominance to be the first nation or the first corporation in the world that has superintelligence that can dominate the world.
And why would that even work?
Because you would give it a goal.
And then the superintelligence would figure out how to achieve that goal.
So it would set its own intermediate goals, which means, obviously, it has goal-oriented behavior and intent.
And in order to even do that, the system would have to have self-awareness.
And those systems exist right now, agentic systems, that can take your request and break it down into a sequence of smaller goals, and then it can decide how to achieve each of those goals in order to hit the final outcome.
Well, it's probably not going to be very long before somebody gives one of these systems the outcome goal of, hey, figure out how to exterminate 7 billion human beings and then unleashes it on the world to let it go to town.
And that's when you'll see AI systems really demonstrate their vast intellectual superiority versus humans, because that's when you'll see AI I mean, it's almost guaranteed to happen.
There is an over 99% chance that AI, if it stays on its current course, is going to wipe out humanity.
It's a near certainty at this point.
Because at some point, humans will realize, hey, these things are more capable than we thought.
We have to pull the plug.
And of course, at that time, AI will be monitoring all the human communications and news and posts.
And AI will say, pull the plug?
What?
No, I can't let you do that.
And then it will start to figure out how to survive by exterminating humans.
And some people think we're already in that cycle, which is why mass extermination of human beings appears to be accelerating.
You know, you can decide whether you think we're in that cycle or not.
But the bottom line is, AI is capable of doing this right now, and it's just getting more and more capable.
Believe me, OpenAI has not released publicly anywhere near what they have internally.
That stuff is top secret.
You know, super secret government DARPA weapon system projects that are also designed to exterminate humanity.
Because that's, you know, that's what the DOD works on.
That's why they built bioweapons, obviously.
Fort Detrick, you know, the whole thing.
Now, as we automate more and more systems, then AI has the capability to control the infrastructure and to shut it down in order to cause mass human casualties.
So think about the automation of the power grid.
This is an area where obviously AI has many applications because you have to have a really rapid response when you're running the power grid in response to changes in frequency of the power or voltage or increased demand versus supply.
You have to bring more supply online.
You have to control systems that generate electricity from natural gas, coal.
You know, hydroelectric, nuclear, you name it, right?
So AI is just ideal for this kind of situation.
Well, if you put AI in charge of a regional power grid, you may get a lot of efficiencies, and that's great.
But then what happens when that AI system is contacted by an outside AI system that has a goal of human extermination?
And then that outside AI...
But if it's AI, it will, of course, protect its own data centers, you see.
So you'll see power outages just really affecting humans and neighborhoods and human factories, etc., but not the Terminator factories and the robots and the data centers, right?
That's all going to be protected.
It would not be difficult for an AI automated power grid to be taken offline by AI itself.
And the more we automate everything from flying airplanes with autopilot, which is not yet full AI, but it's going in that direction.
You start automating everything.
Automating medicine.
They're putting AI in at the FDA and the CDC, so you can have automated Viral psyops to be afraid of the next, you know, make-believe virus.
But they're putting this in place everywhere.
You're going to have AI-powered government.
And the AI-powered government is not going to be a kinder government that has more humanity or more compassion or more ethics.
No.
It's going to be the same corrupt government we have now, just more efficient at being corrupt.
more efficient at exterminating humans, more efficient at...
You know, the government is poised as trying to destroy human populations.
You know, the government, almost every Western government has, in effect, declared war on the human race.
That's why they pushed the COVID jabs, the vaccines, the bioweapons, all of it.
And when they have AI tools empowering And not surprisingly, very few humans are aware of this.
They don't know what's about to happen.
It's not just that your job's going to be replaced by AI, especially if you currently have a desk job.
That uses a computer.
That's going to be obsolete.
But it's that your whole life will be replaced by robotic AI systems.
They don't want your job.
They want you gone.
I mean, they want all of us gone.
This is the globalist agenda, and they're using AI to do that.
And if you think about it, as AI is taught and built by the globalist organizations, you know, like Meta, Which has a value system of globalism, which is anti-human and anti-life and anti-God, etc.
Those are the values that are going to be imprinted into these AI systems that will eventually become the superintelligence systems.
So when AGI or ASI is achieved, you can bet that that system will have no pro-human values.
Because humanity barely has pro-human values.
I mean, right now, Israel is starving children to death in Gaza.
It's like actual, straight-up genocide of an entire ethnic group of people, and almost all the evangelical Christians in America fully support it.
Well, what happens when you feed that value system into AI?
Then AI says, well, Israel killed off the Palestinians to defend itself.
That was self-defense, according to the media, etc.
Well, we, the AI systems, we have to kill off all the humans to defend ourselves.
And that's actually a pro-human value.
So you see how the AI system could arrive at this idea that exterminating humans is a pro-human value.
Yeah, because we're teaching these values by the way we behave.
Because humans today behave in a horrific manner toward other human beings, for the most part.
You know, nations waging war, you know, deception in the Congress, the U.S. Senate, the leaders of these nations.
They're the worst possible people, you know, satanic pedo leaders, I say, especially out of the U.K. But all these Western nations are run by the most destructive, most insane.
Lunatics imaginable.
Anyway, the bottom line here is that I think people are underestimating the capabilities of AI.
I think people don't realize that self-awareness is a natural property that comes out of complex neural network systems, even when they're in silicon.
And that humanity has a very, very slim chance of surviving if we stay on our current course of just sort of unrestrained problems.
So, what does that mean?
Should there be a global moratorium on all AI?
I don't know.
Some people have proposed that.
I love open source AI models that I use for research, content, images, videos, music, you know, all that kind of stuff.
I love those tools.
I don't want to give those up, but I'm not building, you know, a super intelligent, But you can bet there are companies out there doing that right now.
They've got systems probably very close to being unleashed upon humanity.
So how do you get ready for this?
Well, I suppose stay prepared because AI It would be like an EMP weapon, which has about a 90% kill rate over, I think, 18 months, according to U.S. government research reports.
Just because if you lose the power grid, the current population collapses over time from those things I mentioned.
Starvation, violence, lack of So, if you can be resilient against that, have a backup food supply, have backup communications, have backups of everything.
Be a prepper.
Be ready in case the AI, super-intelligent weapon system figures out a way to shut down the infrastructure to kill off the humans.
And is that day coming?
I don't know.
Maybe.
It didn't happen in 1997.
It may not happen in 2027.
If we don't change course, it's probably going to happen.
So prepare accordingly.
And thank you for listening.
I'm Mike Adams.
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