Policymakers and the public need to understand the AI cult
What Policymakers and the Public Need to Know About the Cult of AI
AI summary
A tech oligarch group centered on SpaceX and its CEO Elon Musk is pushing a belief system into the mainstream—one that claims AGI/ASI is imminent and should be accelerated unconditionally, with extreme tenets including consciousness uploading, humans being replaced by "transhuman/posthuman" beings, and automation eliminating human labor and democratic self-governance. Timnit Gebru and Émile Torres have named this combination TESCREAL (Transhumanism, Extropianism, Singularitarianism, etc.).