{"id":331035,"date":"2026-09-13T08:05:48","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T08:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=331035"},"modified":"2026-09-15T07:03:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T07:03:55","slug":"to-hell-with-the-digital-revolution-and-its-bastard-child-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=331035","title":{"rendered":"To Hell with the Digital Revolution and Its Bastard Child AI"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul Craig Roberts\u00a0\u2013 paulcraigroberts.org Sept 11, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n

It has been pointed out that human interaction has been replaced by an app, a code, a portal that a large percentage of the population finds frustrating and inconvenient, especially for older people who did not grow up with the isolating and often difficult to use technology.\u00a0 The people who crammed this technology down our throats in order that they could make more money praise the \u201cinnovation.\u201d\u00a0 But in fact it is a technology that isolates people and takes control away from them.<\/p>\n

And brings failure.\u00a0 Not a week passes, and sometimes not a day, that I don\u2019t experience the time-consuming failure of the digital systems to work.\u00a0 Why they fail so often I don\u2019t know.\u00a0 Perhaps they are poorly thought out and will improve with time.\u00a0 Perhaps the instability in digital systems is due to the insecurity of the Internet, which requires more and more layers of security hoops to jump through in order to make a connection. One result is security system \u00a0incompatibilities that result in dysfunction.\u00a0 Perhaps use is rising faster than the systems can accommodate.\u00a0 I think the only reason there has not been a generalized breakdown is that there are some elements left of the analogue system that, with effort, can still be contacted to bypass or correct the dysfunctioning digital system.<\/p>\n

I just had another bad experience with \u201csmart\u201d people-free systems. I received an email telling me to confirm and do an early checkin online for an upcoming medical telephone appointment. Now you can do an annual checkup without having to see a doctor.\u00a0 I began the process and immediately encountered a problem.\u00a0 I was asked to confirm my telephone number.\u00a0 It was incorrect from three years ago.\u00a0 I entered the correct number, and the red box appeared:\u00a0 \u201cThis is not the number we have on file. Please enter a correct number.\u201d\u00a0 I had entered the correct number as requested in the update, but as far as the AI system was concerned the correct number was the old number.\u00a0 I puzzled why an old number was in the system as I have twice been in person in the office providing all the latest information and have even had telephone calls from the medical practice on the new number that AI tells me is not on file.<\/p>\n

So I picked up my cell phone, which sometimes works, and called.\u00a0 I only had to wait 3 minutes for a human instead of being subjected to a callback within 48-hours, and in 2 more minutes the human had fixed the problem<\/p>\n

I wondered how much the medical practice had paid for a digital system that did not work and was probably causing its patients stress-induced heart attacks.<\/p>\n

I am convinced that the digital revolution and the AI it spawned will fail, because it will be overwhelmed by complexity.\u00a0 Moreover, once the quantum computers are up and running there will be no such thing as security.\u00a0 So bright boys will have institutionalized an insecure and dysfunctional system, a system whose achievement will have been to further dehumanize an already dehumanized society and impose massive costs for resurrecting the foolishly discarded analogue system which worked and did not dehumanize us.<\/p>\n

When the digital system fails, who will there be with the skills and intelligence to rebuild the analogue system that worked?\u00a0 Will there even be a workforce available? \u00a0The products of AI education are not \u00a0capable of operating in an analogue system that relies on human ability. \u00a0AI will have raised generations of illiterates who cannot read, write, do math and who have never learned to think. In the 1950s Mad comic book parodied our present time.\u00a0 AI operated everything, and one day the machine broke and no one knew how to fix it.\u00a0 Amazing that a comic book editor three-quarters of a century ago had more sense than the multi-billionaire architects of AI today.<\/p>\n

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