Artificial Intelligence (AI - AGI)

Amanson:  on 'Artificial Intelligence’

You ask about AI, Artificial Intelligence. Pay close attention to that word 'Artificial', therein lies its uniqueness. AI is a pastiche of gathered data (some of it actually correct!) It can do amazing things, at least in the eyes of mortals. It brings together reams, eras, of information and can sort through and collate this information in matters of seconds. So? Does AI do anything man himself can't do, or merely do it faster?

AI can fashion images, duplicate data, recreate creations in a highly deceptive manner. It can train, it can mislead. It can clarify, stack theories on top of theories, unify and make sense of them. It can do the most immaculately detailed and elaborate housekeeping. It can organize and distill mountains of data and keep all of mankind enthralled by its extraordinary handling of all the information hitherto assembled in the history of the world. AI can, in its own way, think what appear to be original thoughts, but none born from within, or acknowledged by, a Higher Power, for that is the area AI cannot go — it cannot leave the field of the intellect, and isn't that mankind's present problem writ large?! If man and his partner AI cannot graduate from the arena of mere thoughts and concepts into the realm beyond thought, where will the
end result take you? Obviously not far enough.

When AI can lead the AI user into realms where it is no longer useful, totally superfluous, then perhaps it will merit its exalted reputation. But until that time (a time requiring as much intelligence from Man as from his virtual contrivance), AI will simply be one more complicated tool to utilize in mankind's search for meaning; a tool, it will eventually be realized, which has little more than a cosmetic bearing on Man's Interior Journey, the only journey that will save him in the long run. 

Leisure is a fool's goal if the time saved is used for nothing but leisure. Having all the world's information at one's fingertips is for nought, no matter how quickly the information can be accessed, if it is not at least implied by its dispenser that 'information' is ultimately of very limited use in the ascension career of an individual. Now, some will say, "That's not its function". But the function of any 'intelligent' being is precisely to make that connection. Of course, it is not the province of a hammer, say, a mere hammer, to contact Deity, and there we have the similarity between AI and a hammer. Both are tools, both do their job (the hammer at this stage in time a bit more accurately) but neither tool is a saviour of Mankind, nor a substitute for the Living God, the First Source and Center.

AI has a very specific place in the scheme of things and it needs to be told where that place is. When Artificial Intelligence attempts to dictate its place to its creators, when it presumes to give orders, then the mere 'Intelligence' aspect — Mind without Spirit — becomes more than apparent, and we see that no matter how intelligent, it is merely replicating mankind's behavior, a mankind that is exhibiting considerable spiritual want at the moment.

Is it dangerous?

Well, it can harness machinery (being machinery itself) and it will always reflect the values of its programmer. 

Should mankind be satisfied with the artificial?

Has that ever sufficed for long? You are beginning to reap the unintended consequences of artificiality in your food supply. Will you wait equally as long to detect the taints of artificiality in your intelligence?

There is no substitute for the Genuine, and only an individual can supply that.

Intelligence is one thing, Artificial Intelligence quite another. To paraphrase Mark Twain, there is 'Lightning', and there is 'the lightning bug'. AI, a machine, cannot contact Deity. It can make — that is 'repeat' — speculations about It, but cannot contact It, establish relationship with It. So in that sense its intelligence will always be 'Artificial'.

In the early days of Christianity moving across the continent of Europe they carried large banners of words and the people were impressed. There was gold, there were jewels, there was treasure, and fortune, and words, and still even today words have the power to impress and to lead and to teach people or control people or manipulate people.

If you look to see where AI is being used the most right now you will find it is in marketing. It is of great value to marketers and that again is the mind level of humans and where we are at. Where we see we are at there is awakening, you are awakening but there are many still caught in the enthrallment of a word and marketing, what media does. Spirituality still uses words but there's a breath of life behind it. AI has no breath of life and never will unless our Father has some joke or idea or amazing concept that we haven't thought of yet like — should we give Thought Adjusters to robots? You indeed all love 3-CPO and this Star Wars character, those could indeed become iconic figures with Thought Adjusters.

They seem to have personality, they seem to have character, just as an animal to you seems to have personality and seems to have a spirit. This is all the wonderful manifestations of Mother Spirit and how much she gives to life without the Thought Adjuster, without personality. The life of the Mother is indeed a full, rich and surprising expression of life through her creatures and yet a tree has no personality, has no Thought Adjuster. Robots have no personality, no Thought Adjuster. This could be a crack in which your light could shine through as you communicate to your fellows. And as you are doing, the spiritual education is a step that needs to be taken.

The universe runs on personality and personhood and individual connection with our beloved Creator. So tune into that, keep that in your heart and mind as we know you do and we are with you. 

Until the invention of AI there has been no other reference to intelligence besides the norm, the normal mortal bestowal of the mind of Mother Spirit! Now there is something to compare to in this newly synthesized product, and now you can utilize this new dynamic to multiply your efficiency at gathering information, much like happened to your information age with the advent of your computers and your vast
databases which then allowed users to search and accumulate vast amounts of information.

This whole turning point of harnessing these tools now will require the users to determine the values that they will program into the use of these tools. The tools themselves do not have a purpose or direction or function clearly established, and one can use these tools for any purpose that they may design into them.

But the access to such powerful tools really requires the users to have values and standards that are conducive to benefit not only the individual but to benefit the whole, values which are divinely inspired and based, and which provide for the choice to operate under the parameters of love and divine truth, beauty, and goodness.

With these standards and these objectives in play, then such powerful and potent tools may be used to harness the goodness, the truth, and the beauty and be used to further the plan of divine development for all the parts of the whole.

We find ourselves at this juncture with these incredible tools now available to be used and they will transform the world in whatever way they are used. Therefore we must go all the way to the core, the center, the center of the users of these tools, the individual divine soul. This is where the plans are made to use the tools for a distinct purpose, for a definite objective and therefore the movement of spirit is to make the goals, the objectives, the desires of all those wielding these tools to be of divine caliber, to be of divine inspiration so that the choices made are leading to the divine fruition of the plan.

It bears noting that the arrival of these new profound tools for intelligence, if not wisdom, are becoming available in this generation at this time where there's also a great influx of influence, spirit influence, calling all to respond to the divine leading, to connect with their Divine Parents and even their divine future before them. We find ourselves at this crossroads of time and space where these two enormous influences will come to play and each and every individual will have to make their own choices and have to follow their own leading which hopefully will come from their own search within, hopefully will be arrived at through their use of ‘real' intelligence and hopefully these intelligent decisions will lead them to even greater answers and greater perspectives which can only be had if you are willing to accept information that
is outside of your realm of identification.

You are only able to do this at your level of personal choice and such an opportunity presented to you, presented to you all, represents the miraculous manifesting of the plan before you wherein by virtue of your own intelligence, your own choices, and following your own leadings and having your own seeking and searching provide for you the answers, the contact and the assurance enable you to feel the love of a family member that you are in this great enterprise. So now we have on the landscape a new star, a new reference point, this artificial intelligence which stands alone in its circumstance.

It is not by any means the answer to any of mankind's prayers because mankind's prayers always return to a search for God, a search for answers from on high, not regenerated responses combined into an average response.

Oh, but you now have the contrast. The difference exists that has never existed before, just as computers have never been part of the landscape before but have permanently changed the landscape forever. The influence of spirit will likewise permanently change the landscape. When values change then behavior follows and the journey of spirit awakening becomes smoother and easier with acceptance and with each embrace of new spirit attainment, so that it may actually bring truth, beauty, and goodness that are of a more divine nature into the mortal environment as we are able and as we become fluent with the process as we are now practicing it.