Shundo David Haye – Zen Priest

‘It’s basically the biggest psychological and social experiment in human history that we are conducting on billions of people, especially children, and nobody has any idea what the consequences will be. When people talk about the A.I. apocalypse, and they have these images of robots running in the street, shooting people, I don’t think that is the main danger with A.I. The real danger with A.I. is things like millions of A.I. boyfriends and girlfriends changing the psychology of the next generation, changing the deepest tendencies and structures of the human mind. We have never encountered anything like that. It’s really fundamentally different from every previous challenge that we had in history…

The way that I often like to think about the A.I. revolution at this moment is in terms of immigration. We are about to be or already are in the middle of a major new immigration wave coming to all the countries of the world. The immigrants are not human beings without a visa coming in some boat. They are A.I. entities coming at the speed of light.

Usually, the people who oppose immigration, their main concerns are that the immigrants will take jobs, the immigrants will change the culture, and the immigrants might not be politically loyal. I’m not sure if that is always true of human beings, human immigrants — but it’s definitely true of A.I. immigrants. The A.I. immigrants will take a lot of jobs. The A.I. immigrants will completely change the culture, even things like romantic relationships. There are people who say: I don’t want my daughter to date an immigrant boyfriend. OK, do you want your daughter to date an A.I. boyfriend instead?

And finally, politically, the A.I.s will not necessarily be politically loyal to your country, to your government. At the very least, the A.I.s will be loyal to just two countries in the world, which is the U.S. and China. Down the road, they probably won’t be loyal to even those two governments but to themselves.’ (from the New York Times)