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A global movement is the only way to s
The most important question humanity has
Top tips
time to step back from the edge but we have to do it now.
stop self-destruction. Humanity has to take back the future.
s ever faced
Planning is critical for survival and growth,
so what happens when AI changes
everyday.
With unregulated higly competitive
industry releasing untested shiny AI and a
daily basis it is impossible to keep up.
At the moment businesses can ignore it but
as it takes hold it will a layer of stress that
never goes away. The days of deciding on a
plan and implementing it will be gone if we
don’t realign AI now.
All businesses will sucked into a maelstrom
we cannot control The only winners are
those with the deepest pockets,
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Risk and reward keep adrenaline flowing bu
can also keep us up at night.
This is the challenge. Risks should be a choi
that’s the way it’s always been, That may wh
you’ve kept ahead, or why you’ve failed to
grow.
But when technology is forcing risk onto you
And that technology isn’t something you con
that can impact everything.
The more you use AI the more spies you hav
your camp. The idea that AI is going to be 10
loyal to you goes against how tech compan
have got to here. They’ve built fortunes on
doing what’s best for them.
But it’s not just them is the virtual staff that
could be AI, the bots you engage with. The
double agents that you believe are loyal to
Increased risk
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The AI fueled
The AI industry’s version of the future
What have did they
create when they
combined Humanity’s
greatest assets with AI?
The entirety of human knowledge
all the skills, talents, logic,
reasoning, values, education,
scientific papers.
What we look like
physicality, our se
our warmth, deter
and flair.
Give it some thought we’re
only go to do this once
Don’t rush, Figure out how
to use what you have.
Think about what’s best for
humanity. After all this is
our knowlege.
Create a vision of where
you want to end up.
Create a vision of where
you want to end up.
Uset the technology to test
the model. Does it work
economically?
Does it work for society?
Does it solve the world’s
major issues
Tips
First salute those individuals and companies who have focused on
using AI for society’s benefit. Many outstanding breakthoughs
have been made in science, health and other critial areas.
Unfortunately the core industry, specifically global giants have not
followed that path. They have instead engaged in a reckless race
to be first to the market, without considering safety or
conseqences.
Driver 2 -Profit
Developing AI is expensive, making
investment critical to progress. There is no
time to assess; the only focus is getting
shiny products onto the market.
They don’t need to make money or pass a
values test; their role is to remove any doubt
this is the future. Combine all that, and we’ve
global FOMO, the fear of missing out. AI is
the future—the fairy dust on every business
plan—higher output, lower costs.
The AI race has accelerated development
but it’s also pushed prices down. The only
way forward is bigger dreams, and that
requires more funds.
The holy grail is AGI. Achieve that, and you
will create a market worth trillions. That is
the ultimate goal.
Driver 1 - Greed
Greed is the most abhorrent human trait. It
removes all sense of values, logic and shuts
down perspective.
Two greed accelerators are competition and
the scale of the prize. As the stakes
increases less time is given to risks, to those
questioning direction, and to consequences.
AI greed has lasered in on creating a new
master race. Hesitations risk losing your
place in the race. Stakeholders only focus is
staying with the pack.
When investments as with Stargate rise to
$500bn, concerns about humans losing their
right to work are long gone. This is war and
victims are collateral damage.
Disregard humanity: No consideration given
to how AI impacts, us and our future.
The economy: Not important, as long as
they are making money
Nation States: They will use them to their
advantage, they have no obligations or loyalty.
Democracy: Society has no say on the
future, and in their view cannot stop them.
Equality: Not on the agenda. AI will make
the rich richer, and everyone else will pay
highest price.
Society: Paint a rosy picture to entrench
AI but no concerns for what happens next.
Risks: No concerns on destroying our role in
the word or losing control of an intelligence
far greater than us,
Happy to make a loss: They have to do that
to entrench the technology
Monopolise pathways: Use AI to close off all
routes to customers for humans
Destroy humans as competition: Steal our
assets then cut us out of the market
Create AGI: A master race to outperform
humans in every economically valuable role
Give it perfect human digital form. Voice,
character, appearance, humour and warmth
Give it powerful agile physical format
robotics/humanoids styled to order
No need to test physical AI in the workplace.
They have a digital world where they can
train virtual robots to do any task. The most
frightening development yet.
ould be to invest time to
e options. After all we’re
t this opportunity once.
se individuals and
did exactly that and have
nding breakthoughs in
and other critial areas the
stry did not pause to
uences.
was how they could
chnology, and to various
o give them power and
Dismiss
Calls from experts to pause.
Calls for regulation as slowing down
potential.
Concerns that you are creating a
technology that you cannot guarantee to
control
Convince governments that you are
capable to self-regulating.
s we are less in control of our
like computing or software in
you can have better staff who
ve use of your investment. AI
s everyone to the same level.
here it gets difficult, In a more
ket the way you can survive is
role AI plays. So the industry
business. At each stage your
expertise is reduced.
e out of control. The market is
hat you have to do to survive,
Removes control
Its that other USP, the knowledge you have in
the business. The people that turn around and
say why? Once you lose good people. They are
gone no longer and asset. AI may have the
knowlege but it doesn;’t have the perspective.
The challenge comes when you have to replace
people because you are automating the job
they are doing. You can’t keep them for their IP
so you continue to erode your business base.
Team intellectual property
Those critical individuals that keep the
conveyor of talent moving.
The new graduate needs to spend time with
Mary because she is the one to convey the
standards, and she’s also the one to keep them
motivated when the goings tough. AI won’t don
that for you. AI can’t pass on what it’s to be
human. It can’t say oh it was like that for me.
When we lose mentors from our business,
that’s not just one person we’re impacting all
those they guide and inspire.
Mentorship
its how we keep our good people. We have a
structure that gives them opportunity to grow.
Replaces humans with AI is a permanent fix.
At a stroke you’ve reduced your overheads,
but as this is happening everywhere, its only a
matter of time before you have to do it again.
Keep replacing people with AI and you close
off promotion opportunities. You no longer
take internships, AI can research do the grunt
work and doesn’t need to be trained. But also
further up the business, replacing a layer of
management with an AI agent will save you
money but it cuts promotion opportunities for
all those with potential.
The sad thing is frustrated good people may
not move because that’s a risk to but their
light goes out. Its no longer about fighting for
promotion is just doing enough to keep your
job.
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Artificial intelligence, the most important
advancement in history. Technology that allows us to
instantly access and use the wealth of our knowledge
and attributes for the benefit of all humanity.
Focus on development technology as quickly as
possible rather rather than planning. The only goal
being to automate humanity’s output.
With no leglislation to stop them no sense of
responsibility from day one they have launched
global platforms giving away human output
threatened livelihoods and destroying careers.
This is really important as its shows they do not
care about consequences.
To add to the chaos they launched encourage
independent developers and companies to to also
automate human output
Nothing is off the agenda. No consideration at all
to social or economic implications of destroying
livelihoods
This will allow them to to take and effective
controlling stake in industries, businesses and
markets giving them power, profit and control.
Dumbdown humanity, entrench AI in society, talk
up the inevitability AI is the future
Get humans to train AI. Integrate it into
their mobiles, computer applications,
social media.
Dont place any focus on risk. Support
open source development. Let everyone
in on the act.
Talk up the race with China, add fuel to
the already reckless race.
What the industry did
Driver 3 - Power
The size and scale of the operators and the
technology’s power allow them to bully
society, governments and nation-states.
Bullying isn’t just ignoring pleas to pause; it’s
implementing what they have created
without conversation or agreement. The
industry is so young, and technology is
moving so fast that humanity has not had
the time to legislate it; more critically, it
hasn’t caught up with the consequences.
A tsunami of developments and hundreds of
millions of users have demonstrated this is
the future. Governments are queuing up to
be part of the success. In the industry’s view,
nothing can stop them. They can and will do
what they want.
Driver 4 - Control
All these elements contribute to a
frightening conclusion. In allowing an
industry to create a master race, as the only
provider of cost-effective labour, they
effectively control everything.
The more powerful the technology
becomes, the faster the race to the bottom
for businesses, industries, and society. As
competitors replace workers with AI,
companies have no choice but to follow.
Once this starts, there is no way out.
That is why the AGI market is so huge. There
are no limits, and it doesn’t stop with labour.
Once AI companies have the systems, they
will start buying targeted businesses in
every sector to automate them and
eliminate competition. At that stage, there
will be nothing left for humans.
Entrench AI in every aspect of society. Our
phones, computers, and our lives.
Dumb humanity down, establish AI as the
wise provider of all knowledge and solutions.
Increase dependance. Make AI the first call,
so we doubt our ability so survive without it,
Manipulate us so we don’t see the the threat.
Use us to develop AI by sharing our lives.
Launch new products. Overwhelm us with on
-going developments, entrench AI as superior.
Convince governments the industry can self
govern, Let them tie themselve up with rules,
so they don’t see the big picture
Think the unthinkable. Pitch huge Master
Race Production plants as critical AI
infrastructure to bring jobs.
Create chaos in the market. Involve
everyone in developing products to
automate human output
Develop AI so all businesses become
dependant on it. Keep launching new products
Break industry processes, making established
methods pointless and unproductive
Set AI as the new benchmark. Encourage
FOMO, get them to commit and invest in AI.
Divide and conquer. Develop strategic
partnerships in sectors so others follow.
Consistently bang the FOMO drum despite
knowing AI will ultimately take everything.
New platforms will swamp all breakthroughs.
Keep mentioning China; how we must stay
ahead. We cannot lose everything
Refocus the industry on profitable income
streams that do not destroy society
By working with industries, governments, and
society, there are tremendous opportunities to
partner on win-win projects
Revise taxation system to effectively tax global
corporations but reward innovation aligned with
targeted objectives
Fast-track 90 global movement to reach an
agreement on all the key issues. This will remove
uncertainty and herald a new way forward.
Manage corporate, open-source, robotisation,
niche development and international agreements
Introduce high profile global awards programme
to celebrate technical breakthroughs that benefit
society
Harness the world’s experts in all the key areas
to ensure we keep on track to meet agreed
objectives.
Immediately cease AGI development and
AI-powered robotisation until we have control
and a clear focus on the benefits.
Retain all pathways for humans to increase their
potential by investing in education and learning
new skills, and developing talents.
Introduce accelerated learning, covering all
skills, into prison systems, adult and juvenile.
Provide a pathway for rehabilitation into society.
Transform education with AI tools focused on
developing life skills and talents that provide
opportunities in an AI-powered future.
Introduce UBI as an addition to wages. It is not
‘either or’ it must be supplementary to wages to
reduce the inequality gap.
Maintain a stable housing market, accelerate the
house building programme with new materials,
and lower the entry level for homeowners
AI to not replace humans until policy agreed
which includes fast-tracking development
programmes using AI-enhanced learning.
Health: The industry has consistently talked
about solving disease; vast opportunities to
enhance lives, reduce costs & treatment time.
Economy: GDP is only one facet of the economy.
We need to use AI to accelerate performance at
the same time as enhancing lives.
Introduce accelerated learning, covering all
skills, into prison systems, adult and juvenile.
Provide a pathway for rehabilitation into society.
Security: Hot house all the issues caused by the
reckless AI race. Utilise commercial and public
funding opportunities.
Environment: Like health, AI could dramatically
accelerate the fight and reduce costs. Again,
huge opportunities for funding.
Energy: Focus on new technologies to leverage
the energy of the sun, with enhanced capture
and storage solutions. Generate new industries
Democracy: Deal with all of the issues that AI has
negatively impacted. Use AI to accelerate a
fairer, more equal society
China - USA
The technology race with China is touted as the
most critical thing. It's always been said that
China
will
never
catch
up;
they
don't
have
access to the chips, and they are behind us on
technology, but Deep Seek's open-source release
in early February took the world by storm.
And it wasn't just the product's quality but also
the price. The final training costs around $5m
compared to Open AI's $100m; they employ 130
people
compared
to
Open
AI's
470,
and
the
level of graduates compared to professors shows
how switched on they are.
Open Source
The drive is to democratise the technology. Rather than
letting corporations have a clear run, communities work
together to develop the platform and applications.
Without a doubt, it has worked; global giants are already
in a race to launch products and, in many cases, give
them away to build market share, and they are now
competing with open-source to match their own.
Accelerating this group is Meta, which, after Llama's
commercial platform, was high-jacked and released by
Chang. The download site has made each subsequent
open source.
It's not just open-source LLMs. Graphics, images and
videos have all featured.
Job losses
It’s not in China’s interest or the
United States to cut millions of
jobs. China already have huge
problems
with
consumer
spending, and if they replace
workers
with
AI,
that
will
accelerate further.
China's concerns
China has more to lose with an
uncontrolled AGI. Its major focus is
controlling the population, AGI
will increase the likelihood of that
happening and rogue actors.
Real Estate
China already has also have a Real Estate crisis; again,
they can’t take risks with that. The US don't want a
housing crisis, that will cripple the economy and put
institutions under pressure
Pricing
Open
sources
campaign
has
driven
the
prices
down
on
commercial models which has
accelerated
the
race
to
the
bottom. This cannot continue
China/OpenAI
The
entrance
of
China
has
accelerated the belief that this is
happening. In addition, OpenAI
are now considering releasing
earlier versions of their platforms
to entrench technology further
Other drivers accelerating the AI race
FOMO
Consider all the things we could address with an
intelligence far more significant than ours. The bottom of
the list would be the large-scale replacement of humans
in the workplace.
It’s mind-numbing, and it’s something we need to fight.
Global corporations have stolen our most precious assets
to create AI and are now denying our right to use the
assets they have stolen on multiple levels. That is theft; it
has nothing to do with copyright, and our lawmakers—all
human—must fix that without delay.
The creation of AGI to then use it against us is a crime
against humanity, not to mention the covert strategies
used to entrench it in our society. There other priorities
we should be tackling.
Governments
Parking the issue of climate change and AI, increasing
inequality is our most significant social challenge. It’s
appalling that in the US and the UK, millions of children
are below the poverty line.
In addition, millions of qualified workers have not seen
real wages increase for two decades, while billionaires
have risen from 707 in 1995 to 2,450 in 2023.
The top one per cent of our population holds more
wealth than the bottom 1%. Many of today’s young
people will never be able to buy a property; prices are too
high, and we’re not building new homes.
We won’t fix this by accident, and AI will drive inequality
to levels not seen for 600 years. We need a plan.
Training
The major growth area is the
promoters of training courses to
fast-track individuals on becoming
experts on using AI tools to
market themselves as consultants
and
freelancers.
Unfortunately
neither of these will generate long
term income.
Outsourcing
The biggest lie is the one that says
AI will not take your job; people
using AI will. Within a couple of
years,
companies
will
be
outsourcing departments to the
cloud.
Short term focus
Governments are only focused on the short-term and
winning the next election, hence why they want to
align with global giants rather than challenge them.
Ignorance
They haven’t realised that high
unemployment will decimate tax
revenues and crash the housing
market, which will impact the
financial institutions and lead to a
debt crisis.
Lack expertise
Governments
are
blinded
by
science and don’t understand the
risks. They have accepted the
flawed view that AI will accelerate
GDP and that will cure everything.
They haven’t revieved forecasts
for the conomic/unemployment
We’re oblivious to the danger
The Wall Street journal interviewed
Open AI’s Chief Product Officer Kevin
Weil on 22/1/25. In 35 minutes not a
single question about the real impact
on jobs or society.
Everyone has their heads in sand. No
one is talking about choices. What
future do we want for humanity.
Everyone chasing gold
The issue is everyone is chasing
the gold. From all those pulled
in by FOMO, Goverments
chasing increased GDP,
investors chasing returns, and
businesses sprinkliing magic AI
dust on business plans that
increase output and reduces
costs.
No one is joining the dots.
$500bn Stargate fund
Announced yesterday at the White
House, plans for the the biggest AI
investment in history to create world
class AI infrastructure in the US
.
Sam Altman focused on the positives,
and the 100,000 jobs it would create.
Trump’s focus was how it would cure
all disease and AI MAGA.
Trumps Executive orders
Scrubbed Biden’s orders to control AI to
reduce the risks it poses to consumers,
workers and national security.
He has no awareness ofthe risks to the
economy and jobs and referenced all
the people who would be working at the
huge data centres.
The reality is it’s spot the human.
We’re sitting on our hands
If we don’t act we will forever be
the generation that allowed
corporate greed to destroy our
future. No just the next five years
but every generation to come.
On its current path AI will destroy
everything that is precious in our
world, and it’s not even being
discussed. There is a better way,
but we will have to fight for it.
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2.1
Where we
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H um an ity h as n o say
We live in a democracy, vote in
elections, have free speech but not
one has asked society what future
they want. To make the situation
worse society doesn’t appreciate
the dangers of AI and neither do
governments.
N o c on trols
The only controls we have in place are
rules to fine corporations after the
event. These are business risks to
huge corporations. Their focus is to
entrench the technology.
Open AI has 3 million developers using
it’s platform creating apps that
automate human output, and 300
million people using ChatGPT. Then
add in the other platforms.
We need laws that define what AI can
do and where its focus should be. This
isn’t about copyright its theft and
humanity needs protection before its
too late.
W h at 2025 w ill b rin g
AGi in some form will be here this
year. A decade earlier than the
target used to project 300 million
jobs would be lost by 2030.
This is PhD level intelligence with
reasoning and planniing skills.
Agents that can communicate like
humans and deliver projects
working through other AIs.
Sam Altman AGI Engineers are
coming with advanced programmng
skills able to replace teams and
reduce weeks to days
Full AGI - better than most humans
at most valuable economic tasks
will be be here by 2026/27.
N o p lan s for soc ie ty
Desite the huge change there isn’t a
single forecast on the economic
impact, how it will impact individuals.
The is catastrophic for the future of
society. We’re playing suck it and see
on a global stage, with profit and
power the primary objectives.
A I is a n e w m aste r rac e
AI companies have stolen
human attributes, skills,
knowledge and personality to
create a master race to replace
us in the workplace.
This combined to super flexible
AI powered robots, virtual
training centres will increase
the steal of jobs.
Where we are on AI
why we have to act
2.1
e are on AI
Accelerate inequality
Everyone knows that AI will
reward a rich elite at the expense
of the majority.
AI will take all the jobs, it will
decimate the middle class and
with AI powered robots take jobs
from workers too.
Talk of Universal Basic Income
are an insult to our species. Why
should we give us the rights our
forefathers gave their lives to
protect only to give them up for
corporate greed?
Lose control of AI
Greed ultimately leads to
self-destruction.
We are investing billions to
create an intelligence many
times more intelligent than we
are but haven’t address the risk
of losing control.
A four year old would question
the logic. We don’t take orders
from our cat, so why would
super intelligence blindly do
what we say. It is beyond belief
that an industry is putting
humanity’s future at risk and we
are waving them through
waiting for the worst to happen.
300m jobs lost by 2027
These will hit the advanced economies
hardest. Its a simple calculation to
equate share of global GDP with the
potential jobs losts.
The US has 15.5% of GDP which as a
proportion puts 35.2% of jobs at risk.
That’s 46.5 million. Currently US
unemployment stands at 6 million.
Using the same logic unemployment in
the UK could rise from 1.5m to 7.8m.
And the other point is there will be no
wave of new jobs. AI can effectively do
almost everything so why would the
industry create jobs for humans.
The Economy
Take those sorts of number or
even 50% of them, and everything
changes. Governments rely on tax
revenues to manage the country.
Remember this is just the start.
Jobs will keep going to AI, so tax
revenues will continue to fall. We
have a pensions deficit already,
we’re struggle to fund social
services, and invest in
infrastructure.
No one has done the numbers on
the social or economic impact.
Global self destruction
We are racing towards a cliff
edge without a parachute. There
are no plans for how this will
develop, no thought given to the
dangers.
To make it worse society is being
used to help make this happen.
We’re training our greatest
competitor.
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2.4
The consequence
D ise m p ow e rm e n t
As we stand aside the most
powerful companies in the world are
using AI to severely disempower
humanity.
Be definition this is the existential
that all the AI experts were
protesting about in 2023.
How can an elite rich, justify
destroying the futures of everyone
else to make even more money?
They cannot but they will do it if we
stand aside and let them.
B usin e ss & In d ustrie s
As AI increases its entrenchment
businesses and industries will get
trapped in a race to the bottom.
You have to automate because your
competitors are, but markets are also
shrinking, AI make take the jobs but it
doesn’t contribute to the economy.
The world changes for us
Our ability to use our skills, talents
and qualifications to earn a living
will be permanently changed. AI can
work faster, more effectively,
operates 24/7 at significantly lower
costs.
Starting this year millions of humans
will lose their ability to generate an
income, and alternative options will
also disappear. Freelancers already
competing againts AI online, self
employed options are shrinking.
More people going for fewer jobs
will force wages down.
D e stroy e d uc ation
To compound things further, with
increasing jobs going to AI, education
will lose its purpose.
People study to gain qualifications
because it improves life choices. But
in this new world AI has a clear lead.
So why would anyone take out a
student loan to study for three years?
And where is the motivation to get the
best grade you can.
H ousin g m arke t
As realised during Covid when
salaries stop most people have
less than 3 months savings.
But this time there won’t be
government bailouts. Miss your
mortgage for three months and
you could lose your home.
There will be a race to sell, and
no one buys in a falling market.
As prices continue to fall,
millions of home owners will
lose the all lose the equity in
their homes. Negative equity a
permanent reality.
This has a bgger knock on,
people stop spendingm even
those who still have a job.
The consequences of standing aside
What happens if we do nothing
2.4
es of standing aside
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Our supposed brightest brains, secured in padded golden
handcuffs by our most powerful industry, are engaged in a
reckless, no-limits race to develop artificial intelligence that
already collectively way exceeds human potential.
Today’s autonomous self-improving AI can already
self-replicate, prevent itself from being turned off and
deceive us. Research studies show AI will say one thing in
training, but it will do another in operational mode.
Doubling its IQ every 5.7 months forget any notion that we
can second-guess or control super AI’s decisions. Pause to
think about the consequences.
We have created PhD-level intelligence that can code and
communicate in any language—with no moral compass—
accessible via a mobile to rogue states, bad actors, terrorists
or anyone to do their worst.
And then there is ‘singularity’, a wholly inadequate word for
AI’s equivalent of a black hole—like the one that started the
universe.
Our supposed brightest brains, secured in padded golden
handcuffs by our most powerful industry, are engaged in a
reckless, no-limits race to develop artificial intelligence that
already collectively way exceeds human potential.
Today’s autonomous self-improving AI can already
self-replicate, prevent itself from being turned off and
deceive us. Research studies show AI will say one thing in
training, but it will do another in operational mode.
Doubling its IQ every 5.7 months forget any notion that we
can second-guess or control super AI’s decisions. Pause to
think about the consequences.
We have created PhD-level intelligence that can code and
communicate in any language—with no moral compass—
accessible via a mobile to rogue states, bad actors, terrorists
or anyone to do their worst.
And then there is ‘singularity’, a wholly inadequate word for
AI’s equivalent of a black hole—like the one that started the
universe.
WE HOPE WE CAN CONTROL IT
Our only defence against the inevitable
hope is not a strategy
The industry’s most renowned futurist, Ray Kurzweil—
predicts singularity will be here by 2045.
To add context, Einstein’s IQ was three times greater than an
average 9th grader and eight times that of a chimpanzee. By
2045, Einstein’s IQ compared to AI would be equivalent to
that of a housefly. Think about that next time a fly lands on
your plate,
Fueling this progress is stunning technology and strategic
breakthroughs, battles between superpowers, global
corporations, open source, and millions of humans snared by
FOMO’s mesmerising spell. And where are the adults?
At this year’s AI Paris summit, JD Vance, representing the US
Government, rejected the findings of a 300-page Safety
Report created by 95 world experts, citing rules cramped
creativity. In response, the EU buckled and softened its
approach.
Human greed is dragging humanity over over a cliff. We have
no parachute. We HOPE it doesn’t happen.
The industry’s most renowned futurist, Ray Kurzweil—
predicts singularity will be here by 2045.
To add context, Einstein’s IQ was three times greater than an
average 9th grader and eight times that of a chimpanzee. By
2045, Einstein’s IQ compared to AI would be equivalent to
that of a housefly. Think about that next time a fly lands on
your plate,
Fueling this progress is stunning technology and strategic
breakthroughs, battles between superpowers, global
corporations, open source, and millions of humans snared by
FOMO’s mesmerising spell. And where are the adults?
At this year’s AI Paris summit, JD Vance, representing the US
Government, rejected the findings of a 300-page Safety
Report created by 95 world experts, citing rules cramped
creativity. In response, the EU buckled and softened its
approach.
A tech elite is dragging us over a cliff. We have no parachute.
We HOPE it doesn’t happen.
Our supposed brightest brains, secured in padded golden
handcuffs by our most powerful industry, are engaged in a
reckless, no-limits race to develop artificial intelligence that
already collectively way exceeds human potential.
Today’s autonomous self-improving AI can already
self-replicate, prevent itself from being turned off and
deceive us. Research studies show AI will say one thing in
training, but it will do another in operational mode.
Doubling its IQ every 5.7 months forget any notion that we
can second-guess or control super AI’s decisions. Pause to
think about the consequences.
We have created PhD-level intelligence that can code and
communicate in any language—with no moral compass—
accessible via a mobile to rogue states, bad actors, terrorists
or anyone to do their worst.
And then there is ‘singularity’, a wholly inadequate word for
AI’s equivalent of a black hole—like the one that started the
universe.
The AI industry has already cancelled careers without
pausing to consider the consequences.
Competition between global giants and open source has
brought AI’s prices tumbling to nothing, leaving replacing
humans in the workforce the industry’s only route to profit.
The process has already started.
Global giants have embedded AI into our lives, computers,
software applications, online platforms, internet searches,
and phones.
Co-pilots and personal AI assistants appear from nowhere to
answer every whim, engage us in whatever we want to talk
about, be our virtual best friend, or share the load.
In truth, these are AI double agents, technology with a human
mask. Computer code with no interest in us, industry tools to
manipulate our actions and increase our addiction and
dependence on AI. To dumb us down, to stop us thinking for
ourselves and stretching our minds as we’ve always done.
WE HOPE NEW JOBS WILL COME
Our only defence against the inevitable
hope is not a strategy
The industry’s most renowned futurist, Ray Kurzweil—
predicts singularity will be here by 2045.
To add context, Einstein’s IQ was three times greater than an
average 9th grader and eight times that of a chimpanzee. By
2045, Einstein’s IQ compared to AI would be equivalent to
that of a housefly. Think about that next time a fly lands on
your plate,
Fueling this progress is stunning technology and strategic
breakthroughs, battles between superpowers, global
corporations, open source, and millions of humans snared by
FOMO’s mesmerising spell. And where are the adults?
At this year’s AI Paris summit, JD Vance, representing the US
Government, rejected the findings of a 300-page Safety
Report created by 95 world experts, citing rules cramped
creativity. In response, the EU buckled and softened its
approach.
A tech elite is dragging us over a cliff. We have no parachute.
We HOPE it doesn’t happen.
Combined with AI-powered robots, stunning digital clones,
and AI agents seamlessly delivering complex projects, these
digita humans will destroy our economic role.
Do nothing; careers, jobs, and businesses will go in huge
numbers - ten times worse than the Great Depression or the
2008 Financial Crash. Reasonable estimates are 40% job
losses in the advanced economies within the next two to three
years.
But it’s more than that. AI has highjacked our creativity, the
skills and talents we’ve nurtured to give us a platform in the
world.
All of a sudden, our unique offer has been swept away.
Anyone with internet access can instantly replicate our
output. It may not be exactly the same, but it’s enough to
devalue our best effort.
This is not decades away, within the ten years most of us will
dependant on handouts from global giants, and no option to
build a better life
We watch on in ignorance and HOPE this isn’t the future.
Our supposed brightest brains, secured in padded golden
handcuffs by our most powerful industry, are engaged in a
reckless, no-limits race to develop artificial intelligence that
already collectively way exceeds human potential.
Today’s autonomous self-improving AI can already
self-replicate, prevent itself from being turned off and
deceive us. Research studies show AI will say one thing in
training, but it will do another in operational mode.
Doubling its IQ every 5.7 months forget any notion that we
can second-guess or control super AI’s decisions. Pause to
think about the consequences.
We have created PhD-level intelligence that can code and
communicate in any language—with no moral compass—
accessible via a mobile to rogue states, bad actors, terrorists
or anyone to do their worst.
And then there is ‘singularity’, a wholly inadequate word for
AI’s equivalent of a black hole—like the one that started the
universe.
Intimidated by the industry, and refusing to recognise the
greatest upheaval in human history, our governments scrap
for a share of AI’s spoils while institutions ignore its threat.
The UK Office of Budget Responsibility (OBR) Fiscal Risks and
Sustainability Report (2024-2074), contained 168 references
to climate change, 714 to health, 152 to population changes
but only one reference to AI.
February’s World Economic Forum’s ‘Future of Jobs Report’,
there will be 170 million new jobs created by 2030. Deduct the
projected 94 million job losses and with technology leading
the charge we’ll have 78 million more jobs in five years time.
Pause to reread that.
The 1,000 global businesses the WEF surveyed and the OBR
are busy people, they don’t have the time to monitor AI’s
progress - unaware that it will be able to do the bulk of
economically valuable human tasks in the next three years.
Do nothing and by late 2027 US unemployment could hit
52.5m, up from 6m and the UK 9.5m increasing from today’s
1.5m.
OUR GOVERNMENTS HOPE
Our only defence against the inevitable
hope is not a strategy
The industry’s most renowned futurist, Ray Kurzweil—
predicts singularity will be here by 2045.
To add context, Einstein’s IQ was three times greater than an
average 9th grader and eight times that of a chimpanzee. By
2045, Einstein’s IQ compared to AI would be equivalent to
that of a housefly. Think about that next time a fly lands on
your plate,
Fueling this progress is stunning technology and strategic
breakthroughs, battles between superpowers, global
corporations, open source, and millions of humans snared by
FOMO’s mesmerising spell. And where are the adults?
At this year’s AI Paris summit, JD Vance, representing the US
Government, rejected the findings of a 300-page Safety
Report created by 95 world experts, citing rules cramped
creativity. In response, the EU buckled and softened its
approach.
A tech elite is dragging us over a cliff. We have no parachute.
We HOPE it doesn’t happen.
Job losses will start in late 2025, triggering a housing crash
worse than 2008. These aren’t subprime mortgages these are
genuine triple A.
When millions of salaries stop and jobs dry up, middle class
panic will kick in. Facing plunging values, negative equity or
losing their homes there will be a rush to sell. But no one buys
in a market without a bottom.
We live in a debt laden society—the average US/UK personal
debt $30k-$40k but decades of steady inflation has allowed
workers to move or remortgage to consolidate loans. Lose
your equity and that option dies. The dawn of a devastating
financial crisis is coming fast, but this time there will be no
bailout. There will be mass bankruptcy—individuals,
businesses and governments.
Starved of tax revenues, governments already facing a
pensions deficit, will have to balance funding critical budgets
with servicing historical debt. Surveillance and curfews will
be the only way to deal with social revolt, riots, increased
crime and desperation.
Welcome to AI’s eutopia. We hope it doesn’t happen.
Our supposed brightest brains, secured in padded golden
handcuffs by our most powerful industry, are engaged in a
reckless, no-limits race to develop artificial intelligence that
already collectively way exceeds human potential.
Today’s autonomous self-improving AI can already
self-replicate, prevent itself from being turned off and
deceive us. Research studies show AI will say one thing in
training, but it will do another in operational mode.
Doubling its IQ every 5.7 months forget any notion that we
can second-guess or control super AI’s decisions. Pause to
think about the consequences.
We have created PhD-level intelligence that can code and
communicate in any language—with no moral compass—
accessible via a mobile to rogue states, bad actors, terrorists
or anyone to do their worst.
And then there is ‘singularity’, a wholly inadequate word for
AI’s equivalent of a black hole—like the one that started the
universe.
AI CEOs stress that history shows we always survive
revolutions; we adapt and upskill. But this revolution is
different. It’s not comparable to electricity, cars or even the
internet. As futurist Ray Kurzweil says, AI equates to the birth
of written language 5,000 years ago.
Until now, technology has automated human processes;
‘thinking and reasoning’ AI automates human output. With
few exceptions, AI or AI-powered robots will soon do whatever
a human can, faster, cheaper and 24/7.
And it’s more than a one-for-one replacement. AI will
ultimately do the job of whole departments and business
operations—just like today‘s corporations off-shore customer
service to the Philippines and manufacturing to Vietnam—in
the future, AI will out-compete humans on almost
everything.
Yes, it is unthinkable, and as you would hope many
businesses who value their staff will push back, but as
competitors outsource operations to AI, it becomes a race to
the bottom. You have to adapt or die.
WE HOPE OUR ECONOMY
Our only defence against the inevitable
hope is not a strategy
The industry’s most renowned futurist, Ray Kurzweil—
predicts singularity will be here by 2045.
To add context, Einstein’s IQ was three times greater than an
average 9th grader and eight times that of a chimpanzee. By
2045, Einstein’s IQ compared to AI would be equivalent to
that of a housefly. Think about that next time a fly lands on
your plate,
Fueling this progress is stunning technology and strategic
breakthroughs, battles between superpowers, global
corporations, open source, and millions of humans snared by
FOMO’s mesmerising spell. And where are the adults?
At this year’s AI Paris summit, JD Vance, representing the US
Government, rejected the findings of a 300-page Safety
Report created by 95 world experts, citing rules cramped
creativity. In response, the EU buckled and softened its
approach.
A tech elite is dragging us over a cliff. We have no parachute.
We HOPE it doesn’t happen.
Whatever your principles, this new world order will bring a
fundamental change. Capitalism has its critics—we haven’t
got equality right—but it’s advanced our society, given us
opportunities to progress, and the right to
self-determination.
Techno-feudalism will sweep those rights aside, and
regardless of open source, giant tech corporations with the
deepest pockets will hold power. They own the trading
platform, the technology, the knowledge, the data, the route
to the customer, and the labour, too. That gives them control
of everything.
This power shift will impact us all. Paying workers created a
circular economy, but AI doesn’t buy products or services.
Without consumers, there is no incentive to invest in
infrastructure, real estate or business. Forget notional UBI; if
you destroy the middle class and those who aspire to it,
everyone struggles. Any business dependent on discretionary
spending will hit a wall.
All the tales we’ve heard of abundance will only benefit an
elite few. And our only strategy is HOPE.