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14 Summary: What’s Wrong with AI?
14.2.9 A Revolution from Above?
The above scenario is, unfortunately, not just a phantasy scenario. It has been seriously discussed by certain circles already for some time. One book even proposes
“Learning to Die in the Anthropocene”.
64 In this connection it should be remembered that the Club of Rome’s “Limit to Growth” study suggests we will see a serious
economic and population collapse in the twenty-first century.
65 Accordingly, billions
of people would die early. I have heard similar assessments from various experts,
so we should take these forecasts easy. Some PhD theses have even discussed AIbased euthanasia.
66 There is also a possible connection with the eugenics agenda.
67
Sadly, it seems that the argument to “save the planet” is now increasingly being
used to justify the worst violations of human rights. China, for example, has recently
declined to sign a human rights declaration in a treaty with Switzerland,
68 and has
even declined to receive an official German human rights delegation in China.
69
Certain political forces in other countries (such as Turkey, Japan, UK and Switzerland) have also started to propose human rights restrictions.
70 In the meantime, many
cities and even some countries (including Canada and France) have declared a state
of “climate emergency”, which may eventually end with emergence laws and human
rights restrictions.
Such political trends remind one of the proposed “revolution from above” that
has been demanded by the Club of Rome already decades ago.
71 In the meantime,
such a system—based on technological totalitarianism such as mass surveillance and
64 Scranton [15].
65 Meadows et al. [16].
66 Hamburg [17].
67 Kühl [18]; see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shockley; Private jets, parties
and eugenics: Jeffrey Epstein’s bizarre world of scientists, The Guardian (August
19, 2019) https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/18/private-jets-parties-and-eugenicsjeffrey-epsteins-bizarre-world-of-scientists.
68 Der Bundesrat plante offenbar eine Menschenrechtsvereinbarung mit China – und blitzte damit
ab, NZZ (May 4, 2019) https://www.nzz.ch/schweiz/seidenstrasse-bundesrat-wollte-vereinbarungzu-menschenrechten-ld.1479438.
69 China verweigert Einreise von Delegationen des Deutschen Bundestages, Handelsblatt (August 3,
2019) https://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/international/menschenrechtsausschuss-china-verwei
gert-einreise-von-delegationen-des-deutschen-bundestages/24868826.html.
70 Theresa May: Human rights laws could change for terror fight, BBC (June 7, 2017) https://
www.bbc.com/news/election-2017-40181444; Die SVP ist bereit Menschenrechte zu opfern, Tagesanzeiger (August 13, 2014) https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/schweiz/standard/Die-SVP-ist-bereitdie-Menschenrechte-zu-opfern/story/12731796; Erdogan nennt Hitler-Deutschland als Beispiel,
SPIEGEL (January 1, 2016) https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/tuerkei-recep-tayyip-erdogannennt-hitler-deutschland-als-beispiel-fuer-praesidialsystem-a-1070162.html; Japans Vizepremier
nennt Hitlers Absichten „richtig“, SPIEGEL (August 30, 2017) https://www.spiegel.de/politik/aus
land/japan-vizepremier-taro-aso-nennt-adolf-hitlers-absichten-richtig-a-1165232.html.
71 King and Schneider [19].
14 Summary: What’s Wrong with AI?
14.2.9 A Revolution from Above?
The above scenario is, unfortunately, not just a phantasy scenario. It has been seriously discussed by certain circles already for some time. One book even proposes
“Learning to Die in the Anthropocene”.
64 In this connection it should be remembered that the Club of Rome’s “Limit to Growth” study suggests we will see a serious
economic and population collapse in the twenty-first century.
65 Accordingly, billions
of people would die early. I have heard similar assessments from various experts,
so we should take these forecasts easy. Some PhD theses have even discussed AIbased euthanasia.
66 There is also a possible connection with the eugenics agenda.
67
Sadly, it seems that the argument to “save the planet” is now increasingly being
used to justify the worst violations of human rights. China, for example, has recently
declined to sign a human rights declaration in a treaty with Switzerland,
68 and has
even declined to receive an official German human rights delegation in China.
69
Certain political forces in other countries (such as Turkey, Japan, UK and Switzerland) have also started to propose human rights restrictions.
70 In the meantime, many
cities and even some countries (including Canada and France) have declared a state
of “climate emergency”, which may eventually end with emergence laws and human
rights restrictions.
Such political trends remind one of the proposed “revolution from above” that
has been demanded by the Club of Rome already decades ago.
71 In the meantime,
such a system—based on technological totalitarianism such as mass surveillance and
64 Scranton [15].
65 Meadows et al. [16].
66 Hamburg [17].
67 Kühl [18]; see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shockley; Private jets, parties
and eugenics: Jeffrey Epstein’s bizarre world of scientists, The Guardian (August
19, 2019) https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/18/private-jets-parties-and-eugenicsjeffrey-epsteins-bizarre-world-of-scientists.
68 Der Bundesrat plante offenbar eine Menschenrechtsvereinbarung mit China – und blitzte damit
ab, NZZ (May 4, 2019) https://www.nzz.ch/schweiz/seidenstrasse-bundesrat-wollte-vereinbarungzu-menschenrechten-ld.1479438.
69 China verweigert Einreise von Delegationen des Deutschen Bundestages, Handelsblatt (August 3,
2019) https://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/international/menschenrechtsausschuss-china-verwei
gert-einreise-von-delegationen-des-deutschen-bundestages/24868826.html.
70 Theresa May: Human rights laws could change for terror fight, BBC (June 7, 2017) https://
www.bbc.com/news/election-2017-40181444; Die SVP ist bereit Menschenrechte zu opfern, Tagesanzeiger (August 13, 2014) https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/schweiz/standard/Die-SVP-ist-bereitdie-Menschenrechte-zu-opfern/story/12731796; Erdogan nennt Hitler-Deutschland als Beispiel,
SPIEGEL (January 1, 2016) https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/tuerkei-recep-tayyip-erdogannennt-hitler-deutschland-als-beispiel-fuer-praesidialsystem-a-1070162.html; Japans Vizepremier
nennt Hitlers Absichten „richtig“, SPIEGEL (August 30, 2017) https://www.spiegel.de/politik/aus
land/japan-vizepremier-taro-aso-nennt-adolf-hitlers-absichten-richtig-a-1165232.html.
71 King and Schneider [19].