Paul Craig Roberts – paulcraigroberts.org Feb 24, 2025
Many years ago in the 1950s, or perhaps it was the 1960s, Mad Magazine painted a dystopian picture of the future in which AI had taken over life and produced everything everyone needed. Consequently, humans had nothing to do and no longer knew how anything worked or how to fix it. And then one day AI had a problem and no one could fix it. The world came to an end.
I have never understood why geeks and scientists think it is important or an accomplishment to take function away from humans and make them irrelevant. Karl Marx had a much more optimistic view of the future than today’s AI geeks permit. Marx looked forward to a world in which the economy would be organized like a self-sufficient family farm or manor in which the output of the community was allocated and consumed without the need of markets and profit, thus bringing to an end the unemployment, inflation and disruption of life that unplanned market production caused.
The result would free human energy from coping with needless hardships and unleash the potential of every human. A person would be a worker in the morning, a philosopher after lunch, and a literary critic in the evening.
Under AI humans have less and less to do. I have pointed out for years that AI and robotics produce goods and services without human labor, but robots are not in the market purchasing goods and services. As humans have no income from employment, how are the non-human produced goods and services distributed?
I said that humans would have to be given a basic income and that this would be the way equality is achieved. As humans would not be producers, there is no reason for different incomes based on merit or luck.
AI and robotics are the path to socialist equality. But, of course, there is no equality as humans are subordinate to the machines. Moreover, what is the point of the humans? Why should AI produce for superfluous humans?
A day or two ago Elon Musk agreed with me when he said that a universal basic income would be necessary as AI and automation are replacing jobs, thus depriving humans of earning money from working.
Does humanity really want to be born into a world in which they are useless and unneeded, with no prospect of any higher development, with nothing to do but to spend their universal basic income for their needs or wants and watch disinformation on a video screen? In effect, AI means humans will be ruled by machines.
AI disconnects humans from one another. You can already see it. We experience it every day. Consider for example “customer service.” You are forced to confront robotic voices programmed to deal with a range of issues, seldom the one you are calling about. Sometimes it is 48 hours before you can make contact with a human voice.
The young are being taught to deal with AI, NOT WITH PEOPLE. Those born into AI will know nothing different, never having experienced contact with other humans as it is only a matter of time before schooling is accomplished online. We see it already, young people on dates sitting there scrolling their cell phones. If they are connecting across the table it is with texts. People are forgetting how to talk to one another.
Human reproduction can become a problem. Hologram induced masterbation can become more pleasing than actual sex as the beautiful partners are unreal and thus not problematic and weighted down with commitment. This has already begun with dating sites that offer free sex. Just call and arrange an anonymous sexual partner.
Today Americans are endeavoring with President Trump to beat back the Democrats’ attack on American principles. The task of beating back AI’s attack on humanity awaits us. If we wait too long, we are lost.
While they are threats, I disagree.
The No1 one threat to humanity isn’t Russian nukes, although the No1 threat could unleash Russian nukes, is Donald Trump.
Trump has just threatened a 25% tariff on European goods. The UK might escape, because we don’t make much, and therefore, don’t export much. No, Nazi UK is a bankrupt debt based economy that just imports a lot of shit.
Trump cites European cars and foods, both of which are vastly superior to anything the US makes or produces. The EU has very high food quality standards, and won’t allow substandard US foods into the EU, and the UK can’t take US foods, as that would block them from EU markets.
The US doesn’t produce cars or trucks (SUVs) that are suitable for European roads. Tesla EV crap being the exception.
Trump has a terrible understanding of the realities, but what he is doing is injecting a lot of inflation into the US economy, and that is an economy that’s going to get smaller.
The fact that Nazi Amerika is turning its back on Nazi Europe, is seriously bad news, and all these meaningless pontufications over minerals and the fake news calling such deals, peace deals, demonstrates the fact that Trump doesn’t want peace, unless it’s all on his terms, which won’t happen.
The very notion of NATO peace keepers in UKraine is a 100% guarantee of a nuclear WW3, accept that Trump is trying to take the US out of the war zone, so Europe takes the nukes.
You will note, it appears everyone in the US, including the liberals and deep state, are silent, and in effect, are totally behind Trump.
Trump is reinforcing the war agenda in Europe, and one should be very concerned about the staggering quantities of weapons being shipped and flown into the Middle East. My view, the US wants the entire region up in flames.
Post Office miscarriage of justice cases double in second IT scandal
the number of convictions linked to a second Post Office IT scandal being examined by the miscarriages of justice watchdog has more than doubled.
The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) is now looking at 21 cases related to Capture, a faulty IT system rolled out to thousands of branches in the 1990s before the notorious Horizon software, Sky News reports.
The post office has been stripped of its cover under the official secrets act, this means people can sue
royal mail had the worst record in the whole of europe for racial and sexual harassment
in my office of kings lynn, 2 managers would take home carrier bags of stuff stolen from the post every day, they would sack women who would not give them sex
and one lad bullied by mangers hung himself another killed his girl freind all hidden up by managers
UK Labour will use AI to snoop on social media
Government team developing programme that could trawl through posts to identify ‘public safety risk’
Sarah Knapton
Science Editor
Freedom of speech, Artificial Intelligence, Donald Trump, JD Vance, Social media, Fake news
22 February 2025 6:04pm GMT
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The Government’s controversial disinformation team is developing a secretive AI programme to trawl through social media looking for “concerning” posts it deems problematic so it can take “action…
UK News Website of the Year 2024
The Telegraph
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/22/ai-social-media-dsit-disinformation-trump-vance-elon-musk/
Artificial intelligence is a creation of man. It can only do what man programs it to do. Satan is a creation of God. A I isn’t even close to being the enemy of man that satan is.
LOL..
What an imbecile…cowards like Robert’s who mind their P’s and Q’s . are miserable wretches with selective memory and a wide skunk stripe of hypocrisy running down their spotty backs…
..seldom tell the Truth..preferring to whine interminably like little bitches…into the black abyss of the media…which laffs back at ’em..
Of course ‘mankinds’ (which is actually neither MEN or very kind) biggest enemies are it’s own cowardice and stupidity…which is in endless supply…
Scientism it’s vaporware and the common imbeciles dark reflection Satan, run at the back of the pack…
coffin’ an’ splutterin’…
There’s a 14 second video from China on X posted by a Mario Nawfal which shows a humanoid robot without a head approach a crowd and throw a nice and very fast punch at someone. Anything humanoid that can walk about and do its thing with no frickin’ head has to be more demon than human.
https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/1894276139784573275
AI is an oxymoron it simply does not exist. If it is intelligence then it is not artificial, period.
It is just large database with the information contained within is supplied by ‘them’
In any competitive environment when one side employs some enhancement for an advantage the other side is sure to follow. If China uses AI without restraint that will be the pretext for every nation in the West to follow. Transhumanism we recently learned on this site and others is not just about breaking down natural gender barriers (i.e. “borders”) but the powers are in fact promoting that trend such that there are no taboos about blending the human genome with animals, and the human mind with machines and AI.
Unfortunately, we appear to have no real moral guides or moral limits, not just with respect to transhumanism but to anything anymore. Yes, our laws are essentially based on concepts of right and wrong, which can be said to have a moral basis, however when it comes to power and the power brokers running things what we have seen over the past 100 years is an increasing pattern of ruling essentially through mass deceptions, brain washing, fear, and oppression with little or no real consequences for any committing any of the massive crimes against humanity. They justify every evil method of the basis of serving some common good, such as their carbon sustainability pretexts to protect the environment and their vaccines to make us safe, and they always get away with it no matter what the harms. Once these same powers were able to remove the God of Christianity from the public square, it suddenly became politically correct to be “amoral”, and anyone from the hoi polloi who evoked and tried to register their moral values in the public system was summarily dismissed. Very soon in the morally relativist society we found that in fact there were few moral restraints except going against the diktats of the same secular and amoral powers controlling our governments, and busy imposing punishments on anyone opposing their will and designs not only for the way we live but also who they want to live.
Actually, it is the US and not China which leads the world in AI and transhuman experimentation. It is a nation which went from a “common sense realism” guided by Christian moral principles in the late 18th century to a pragmatism based on experimentation and outcome without any real Christian moral restraints, and certainly without any real idea of the purpose and destiny of human beings other than survival of the fittest (meaning those with the most money and power), and going to the moon, or maybe to mars.
Good to see Carl Jones hasn’t lost his nuclear lustre..his proselytising gusto…his atomic accolades..
…because of course now that King of the tall story Demented Medvedev is polishing shoes at the whitehouse and has a second job digging coltan and lithium in his undies for pootie’s new boss Black Crock..
Somebody has to frighten the muggles at the TS with radio-active fairy stories…
well done lad!..someone has to..
Ah good old PCR. He just can’t bring himself to calling out the kike can he?
Who created AI?
Who and what is Satan?
You can guarantee that Jews had something to do with the creation of AI, as it’s a control mechanism over the non Jews. And Satan is Hebrew for ‘adversary’. Who are the adversaries of mankind? Yup, you guessed it. So, if PCR actually would tell the truth for once the headline could easily have read:
‘Jews are the greatest enemies of the human race’ (and it’s not human race, but actually mankind, that is the white people as the non whites aren’t any threat to the Jews, never have been and never will be).
chesterton: you don’t seem to understand that Trump is trying to corner Putin with his unrealistic and untruthful statements. We even have the fake news calling a mineral deal, a peace deal.
We are nowhere near a peace deal, and in my view, we are closer to WW3.
The Russians around Putin will be reminding him, if he needs reminding, that Trump is a 4 year glitch in the Nazi agenda, and that’s the best. I’ve said it many times, Trump has done a deal with the US Nazi deep state.
You forget that many years ago the US position on using nukes changed, because in a straight fight, the US can’t win, so the true US position, is to preemptively strike. That’s the fact, and many in the Nazi elites want to do this, they are unhinged.
get a life carl jones and stop the nazi nonsense
humans miraculously maintain their God-connection, which machines cannot do
@CARL JONES
dont worry . we have here in germany + europa
enough warmongers in politics . not only Biden/Trumps .
Well said Carl Jones keep up the good work.
As for AI, just pull the batteries out of the back, unplug the power cable.
AI might be a massive godsend, supposing we ask AI “who causes all of the problems worldwide?”.
You know what the overwhelming answer would be don’t you?
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