Joseph P Farrell – There’s a dimension to the artificial intelligence debate that seldom gets mentioned: mind control. Assuming that artificial intelligence is possible, and assuming that machines, like Robert Heinlein’s “Mike” computer in his celebrated sci-fi novel The Moon is a Harsh Mistress “wakes up”, would mind control and mind manipulation techniques work on such an entity?
I do not know the answer to that question, but I suppose on the basis of the following article shared by V.T. that it might be possible. At the minimum, what the article does state is that it is possible according to recent studies to plant malware inside an AI’s programming: Continue reading