‘Democratic’ governments close in on AI

World governments which only recently lifted totalitarian mandates are preparing to seize control of artificial intelligence technology.

Experts and tech industry leaders have been issuing dire warnings about the dangers of AI, whose awesome power they say threatens human existence. To guarantee humanity’s safety, they propose entrusting that power to globalist governments.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is visiting Washington, DC this week to propose a global authority which will govern the use of AI, possibly modeled after the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Sunak has said he intends for the United Kingdom to play a “leadership role” in regulating AI and reportedly plans to arrange a global summit this autumn to devise rules and regulations for the technology.

The notion is concerning to those who opposed the sweeping lockdowns and forced vaccinations implemented by the UK government in the last two years, even as authorities flouted them. 

Sunak’s proposal raises further alarm considering the government’s penchant for cracking down on thought crimes and its warnings against classic literature.

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also this week made moves toward regulating AI. Following a phone call with Elon Musk about regulating the technology, Netanyahu said he plans “to deliberate on a national policy for artificial intelligence, both in the civil and security field,” and intends to position Israel as “a national power in the field of artificial intelligence.”

Netanyahu’s intentions are unsettling to those who recall that the prime minister, who led the world in administering the COVID-19 injections, boasted that he turned Israel into “a lab for Pfizer”.

In the US, legislation introduced last month in the Senate aims to bring artificial intelligence under government control.

The Digital Platform Commission Act of 2023, sponsored by Democrat Senators Michael Bennett (D-CO) and Peter Welch (D-VT), would create a federal agency of “experts” with the power to govern artificial intelligence platforms down to their algorithms.

Without such regulation, says the bill, digital platforms produce “demonstrable harm” such as “abetting the collapse of trusted local journalism,” “disseminating disinformation and hate speech,” “radicalizing individuals to violence,” “perpetuating discriminatory treatment of communities of color and underserved populations,” “enabling addiction” and other maladies.

“We need to empower an agency that issues a license [to develop AI] and can take it away,” said Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who has said more than once that Ukraine’s victory against Russia is “the most important thing in the world”. “Wouldn’t that be some incentive to do it right if you could actually be taken out of business?”