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Arsenio Toledo \u2013 Natural News May 11, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Recently\u00a0resurfaced writings by Serbian-American inventor and engineer Nikola Tesla seemingly predicted the development of artificial intelligence<\/a> and its rise as a groundbreaking piece of technology<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tesla, a pioneer of technology and of the use of electricity, wrote over 120 years ago some eerily accurate predictions about the emergence of a machine with its \u201cown mind.\u201d (Related: Entrepreneur Ian Hogarth warns reckless development of AI could lead to the destruction of humanity<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

\u201cI purpose to show that, however impossible it may now seem, an automaton may be contrived which will have its \u2018own mind,’\u201d wrote Tesla in an essay titled \u201cThe Problem of Increasing Human Energy\u201d in the now-defunct monthly magazine,\u00a0The Century Magazine<\/em>, in its June 1900 edition.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd by this I mean that it will be able, independent of any operator, left entirely to itself, to perform, in response to external influences affecting its sensitive organs, a great variety of acts and operations as if it had intelligence,\u201d continued Tesla.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will be able to follow a course laid out or to obey orders given far in advance; it will be capable of distinguishing between what it ought and what it ought not to do, and of making experiences or, otherwise stated, of recording impressions which will definitely affect its subsequent actions.\u201d<\/p>\n

For years before and after this essay, Tesla had been thinking of\u00a0AI. In one letter to a professor at\u00a0Purdue University<\/a><\/em> written in the 1890s, Tesla explained how, in his experiments with radio-controlled technology, he was also thinking about future inventions involving \u201cmachines possessed of their own intelligence.\u201d Although he believed that he himself would be the inventor of such a machine.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince that time I had advanced greatly in the evolution of the invention and think that the time is not distant when I shall show an automaton which, left to itself, will act as though possessed of reason and without any willful control from the outside,\u201d wrote Tesla.<\/p>\n

This statement\u00a0cuts very close to the world\u2019s general understanding of AI as non-living beings that are able to simulate human intelligence and can carry out various tasks, either on their own or based on prompts by humans.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhatever be the practical possibilities of such an achievement, it will mark the beginning of a new epoch in mechanics,\u201d wrote Tesla.<\/p>\n

Tesla also concerned with unrestricted development of AI<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Tesla, born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1856 and moved to the United States in his late 20s, is famed for inventions like the Tesla coil, hydroelectric power and his work on developing a radio. He is also known for predicting a variety of modern inventions, like the creation of unmanned vehicles, wireless technology<\/a> and even modern-day cell phones, which he referred to as \u201cvest-pocket\u201d technology.<\/p>\n

His resurfaced prediction about \u201cautomatons\u201d act as a surprisingly prescient forecast of the development of AI. James Sikorski, a member of the History and Collections Committee at the Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe in Long Island, New York, noted that Tesla previously described AI, to which he gave the name \u201cteleautomaton,\u201d as having a \u201cborrowed mind.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis perhaps better illustrates the potential benefits, yet dangers, of unrestricted AI \u2013 for where the mind is \u2018borrowed\u2019 from could make all the difference since it will be built upon the work of human beings who may be unable to contain their inherent flaws or biases,\u201d said Sikorski in an interview with\u00a0Fox News Digital<\/em>. \u201cTesla did foresee an age of machines thinking independently of humans.\u201d<\/p>\n

Learn more about the rise of artificial intelligence tech at Robotics.news<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Watch this special video report from Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, about how AI being built by leftists will be used to annihilate the human race<\/a>.<\/p>\n