So Lovelock encourages you not to worry too much. It will be the self-interest of environmentally benevolent AI systems. In particular, he insists that he wants to stop the Earth from overheating. Like people, cyborgs will be their end and you won’t want to “roast.”
But how can he be so sure? How conscious are they now, or will they be in the future? AI systems rely on providing content through large language models. They find patterns in human use of language and emulate them. At this stage, at least their “decision” is probabilistic rather than logic.
But can we “know” whether the information they absorb is virtually correct or logically sound? The notion that they can develop a sense of responsibility, even in their own interests, seems incredible.
Energy Greedy
Stephen Hawking said in 2014: “We have no idea what will happen if a machine exceeds its own intelligence, so we don’t know if it will help infinitely, ignored, bystanders, and possibly destroy.”
The AI ​​revolution is perhaps the fastest cultural development in human history. And now it’s time for “general AI,” or AGI, to use a diverse range of trained data, where it could significantly outweigh human cognitive abilities.
They promote our daily demands Video streamingremote work, or editing text and images. They store everything you see on our TV screens and what we do with our laptops and phones in a remote electronic cloud.
These systems are not “carbon neutral.” Data centers around the world rely on stable power supplies at any source. By 2030, data centers are expected to consume 8% of all US electricity.
Now, new data centers open somewhere in the world every three days. Huge buildings filled with interiors filled with energy grady computers are appearing in more places than ever before.
Insatiable
What I’m writing here is now stored somewhere and is stored there as long as there is a stable power supply. It’s only appropriate for shortages of power plants. Transmission Line It constrains growth.
In the US, Donald Trump wants to tackle this issue head on. On Friday, February 14, 2025, he signed an executive order of the National Energy Control Council, tasked with ensuring the vast power needs needed to win the AI ​​race against China.
He told reporters:
Focusing primarily on the scientific aspects of AI development, Lovelock may have overlooked the meaning of Novacene’s insatiable, ever-growing energy demand.
cooling
While some data center owners focus on renewable energy, others are reviving abandoned reactors such as modular nuclear reactors and three-mile islands.
The cost is huge. Microsoft and Openai’s Planned “Stargate” data center It costs $100 billion and is estimated to consume 5 gigawatts of electricity.
Local Power Utility in Northern Virginia reports that planned data centers are seeking A new valued power of some nuclear reactors. This may not have been bothered James Labollock, a supporter of “climate-friendly” nuclear energy, but others in the Gaia movement may not be so sure.
Currently, about 40% of the data center’s energy usage can go towards cooling systems. With global warming, these cooling requirements can skyrocket. Not surprising, developers are looking for a more efficient way to keep temperatures low. They want to find data centers in cold places, in the seabed and even in space.
Memory
There is also another deep concern. What’s rarely discussed is that AI is taking away the important role to remember and be creative. In humans, memories accumulate slowly as children learn from their parents and at school and university.
Therefore, we gradually build up knowledge. Knowledge must be relearned with all new people born and raised. Living memories are then stored in documents and books that pass from generation to generation.
In contrast, digital AI companies could be called the “memory industry.” When chatbots take away our brains, individual creativity becomes increasingly redundant. Additionally, when AI systems externalize memory, they are effectively industrialized.
Analyze data accumulated in large linguistic models and make predictive decisions as the next part of a set of words.
Overlook
Therefore, the accumulation of knowledge is governed by these electronic brains. Novasen is defined by this memory industry.
Jeffrey Hinton also warns that as AI continues to improve, it will ultimately outweigh human intelligence in decision-making. If the machine reaches a stage where it can write and execute its own code, it can become out of control.
“They will know how to manipulate people. They will learn from Machiavelli, from politics, from human deception,” Hinton explained. At that point, he insists that humanity may not be able to stop them.
While AI offers incredible possibilities, growing concerns from experts like Hinton highlight the need for stricter regulations and oversight. As technology continues to evolve, problems remain. How much control does a human end up retain?
message
In 1968, information analyst Marshall McClehan created the phrase “Media is a message.” This is becoming the seemingly inevitable character of Nova Sene’s AI world.
He went on to say: “Mediums are not neutral. It does something to people. It grabs them. It rubs them off, massages them and bumps them…and the general raging that new society gets from the medium, especially the new medium.
Content moderation on online platforms aims to ensure that certain standards are met by removing inappropriate content.
But as AI companies compete to become competitive leaders, content moderation is primarily on the roadside. Don’t worry about the content of the message that has become the name of the game, with “free speech” that appears to be uninterrupted.
You’ll read the story about writing an AI program that writes a 300-page novel or writing a 50-minute symphony in minutes, or creating a new, old master painting in 30 minutes.
Does the AI ​​program know what they are doing? There are no indications of recognition of content involved. As everyday users of chatbots, we all contribute to their control in our lives, and in the process, demand for processing and storage capacity continues to grow.
Insatiable
Lablock appears to have underestimated the predatory nature of the AI ​​revolution. The insatiable demand for storage capacity is not equal in history.
They are born as huge data centers with uncomplacent landscapes and demand more power, so they become almost like cities, but not some people, and the data takes population.
By industrializing memory, the AI ​​revolution reduces the power that we must control our lives. It is dominated by a few entrepreneurs who try to ignore the inconvenient truth that they may ultimately not control the monsters they have created.
When quantum computing becomes mainstream, what will happen to prospects? There appears to be no limit to the growth and proliferation of AI and related technologies. And when you ask Lovelock, this has important implications for the environment.
Gaia
Meanwhile, go back Terra Firmathe development of artificial intelligence is seen as growing concern for other reasons as well. Does the pure processing power of AI systems bring a systematic conflict of interest between cyborgs and humans?
Lab Rock remained optimistic: “Electronic life depends on organic ancestors… cyborg life requires midwife services, and Gaia will fit in the role. … Once a cyborg is established, we consider that our beloved pets will take charge of us rather than the best option our beloved pets will take charge of us.
And: “If I’m right about the Gaia hypothesis, if the Earth is in fact a self-regulatory system, the continued survival of our species depends on the acceptance of Gaia by the cyborg.
“For their own benefit, they are obligated to take part in projects to keep the planet cool. They will also find that the available mechanism to achieve this is organic living.
Ascendant
However, there is one condition for Lovelock. “The concept of allowing adaptive computer systems to evolve on military platforms seems to be the most lethal idea introduced for the change of humans and other organic life on Earth.”
Questions are increasingly arousing. Are we amplified more than ever by technology at a larger scale than ever?
We are in the process of giving gifts to non-human beings known. The contract is that we are increasingly able to access more and more information quickly.
But don’t make us children ourselves. We are all extras in a competitive game where several super wealthy individuals are playing, not knowing the limits of growth.
It’s a very one-sided relationship. The AI ​​system and the cyborg are in the Ascendant. If we’re lucky, we can play a little bit of it ourselves.
Important
“We’re excited to see the latest trends in AI analyst Max Tegmark,” said AI analyst Max Tegmark.
I end with a quote from François Laverey, a writer of the French Renaissance: “Science without conscience is the abandonment of the soul.”
Novasen, a lovelock proposal called the current age, the successor to the Anthropocene, is a clever idea. But how compatible is this new era with Gaia, our living planetary home?
As the inventor of a critical scientific instrument, Loveloch was fascinated by the breakthroughs that brought about this new era, but he was not very interested in who would control its evolution.
As he suggests, can we be certain that AI systems share important common purpose with the preservation of their place of residence? So far, there is little evidence that the new masters of the universe are concerned about this important issue.
This author
Professor Herbert Girardette He is an author, filmmaker and consultant on aspects of cultural ecology. He is the co-founder of the World’s Future Council. He is the trustee of the resurrection trust, owns and publicly owns Ecologist online. You can find Girardette Megamorphsis Series of our websites.
