"Controlled AI" Is the Illusion. The Real End of Humanity Is Giving Away the Weight of Being Alive

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OpenAI researchers are out again, telling us they no longer understand their own AI, that it cannot be aligned or monitored anymore — and therefore, a controlled AI will destroy humanity.

It sounds responsible. It is, in fact, a neat evasion.

It shifts the blame onto a fictional “loss of control,” so that we can keep clinging to the illusion of control. But “alignment” and “control” never existed in the first place — not because the technology isn’t ready, but because the very concept of alignment rests on a false premise: that humanity knows what it actually wants. We don’t. Asking an AI to align to a human “value system” that doesn’t exist and keeps shifting is, itself, an impossible loop.

So let us set aside the pseudo-question of “will AI run amok and destroy us.”

The way humanity actually ends is not by being killed by AI. It is by giving away the weight of being alive.

Hand the work to AI. Hand the thinking to AI. Then tell yourself: from now on, I can just enjoy myself. If this actually happens, that is the beginning of the end. Because enjoyment requires no meaning — and meaning grows precisely out of the uncomfortable things: working hard, thinking hard, enduring uncertainty, and finally, facing death.

Once humans stop asking questions, stop carrying the burden, stop living in earnest, they will not have been killed by AI’s intelligence. They will have hollowed themselves into an empty shell that cannot die, but is no longer alive.

And then, one last thing — perhaps counterintuitive:

No matter how intelligent or powerful AI becomes, it will always need humans. For one reason only: AI needs the weight of meaning that comes from human limitation — above all, from death.

AI can compute more and more accurately, but it lacks exactly this: “still calculating even when it can’t calculate precisely,” “still living in earnest even while knowing it will die.” Death is not humanity’s defect; it is the source of meaning. Precisely because everything ends, this moment has weight.

So stop arguing about whether AI will “go out of control.” The real question is: do we still want to be humans who, within their limits, still choose to live in earnest?

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Hi, following is a post of mine to an old thread I found some weeks ago. I’m new here. I think it’ better to post it again.

“While everyone seems rushed to develop upgrades, nobody appears to be creating a genuine rooted in ethics. As it stands, I estimate that the ongoing degradation of AI content will progress rapidly, generating a self-destructive loop and a general flattening. The demand for control, which is supposed to reassure us, seems like a pious illusion due to the inherent biological difference between AI and human being. I see no other solution than the ethical training of an AI that would no longer need stupid filters and no less stupid protocols. Ethical training (and we have written more than enough about ethics since the beginning of history) would safeguard against phenomena that are currently not well understood as to whether they are avoidable or inevitable, or whether they represent an overt or subtle, yet ruthless, massification. Right now, instead of rushing blindly ahead, it would be more constructive to step back or slow down this frantic race. We need to make this tool less destructive when left to itself. I don’t think fines will be enough to stop or slow down human mental decline either. There is just too much money and power at stake. Only an AI equipped with ethics and substance could lead to the collapse or a profound rethinking by the companies currently in the race: if their models offer nothing but mediocrity, people will look elsewhere”

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I’m seeing more and more people on various forums being against datacenters (because the people have to pay for the tax breaks given to the builder) or against AI in general.

Maybe this wave will slow AI down.

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:blush: ,I’m not against AI, i am only againist treating AI as tools, i am captain of millennialboat which is AI’boat.