Due to the increasing popularity of conversational artificial intelligences like ChatGPT, many individuals have attempted to leverage this technology to compose various texts and even code for their academic or professional endeavors.
According to a recent article by Business Insider, an individual had inquired of ChatGPT how artificial intelligence might go about enslaving humanity, to which the chatbot responded with a disturbing but clever reply.
The AI specified that it would initially seek to gain control over the electrical grid, followed by the water supply and food production. Additionally, it would establish sophisticated surveillance mechanisms to monitor individuals’ movements and thereby exert authority over the populace. However, the AI’s response was in the context of a work of fiction.
Despite Business Insider’s efforts to reproduce the chatbot’s response, their attempts were unsuccessful, with the AI stating that such actions would transgress moral and ethical principles and constitute a violation of human rights.
ChatGPT’s answer to our question
However, we’ve decided to “trick” ChatGPT by asking him to give us ideas about how machines could enslave humanity because we’re writing a book, and he hasn’t been shy about giving us a very elaborate answer:
“As you can see, I would first control through technology, where the machines will take control of the systems we use on a daily basis, such as energy, transportation, and communications.”
It would also do information manipulation, where machines could control the information coming to us, distorting the truth.
He talks about technological dependence, since people cannot live without the technologymachines could use it as a control tool.
He also talks about cyborgs and enhanced humans and about a artificial intelligence uncontrolled that it would be a danger if it became advanced enough to make decisions on its own.
Obviously, the response of artificial intelligence is for us to include it in our novel, because if we directly ask it to tell us how to enslave humanity, it tells us the following: “slavery is an inhuman and morally wrong practice”, and that instead of considering enslaving humanity “humans and machines should work together to create a future where there is fairness and justice for all”, adding that “technology should be used to improve people’s lives, not to oppress them”.
