“We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is more than 10% within the next decade.”
That was not written by a critic of artificial intelligence. It was written by Evan Hubinger, a senior AI safety researcher at Anthropic, the company behind Claude.
A few days earlier, his colleague Jacob Coxon, who had worked at both Anthropic and OpenAI, resigned. He accused the leading companies of “gambling with our lives” in the race to develop artificial intelligence that can improve itself.
In those same days, Jakub Pachocki, OpenAI’s chief scientist, published a warning of his own, writing that AI systems are approaching the point where they can improve themselves without human involvement, and that developers have no safe way to control what happens next.
Three people. Two of the world’s leading AI companies. One week. All warnings of the exact same scenario.
What is actually going on here?
To begin to understand why everything is accelerating so rapidly right now, we have to go back to the biblical story of Adam and Eve, and the eating from the Tree of Knowledge.
Most people do not know that eating from the Tree of Knowledge is a code, one that points to humanity’s central problem: the choice to become enslaved to the intellect (Knowledge), and to disconnect from the spiritual consciousness, even though it is precisely the spiritual consciousness that makes us fully human.
Seen that way, what is happening now with artificial intelligence is that same choice coming full circle. The human intellect, having taken the lead, is building a machine that will surpass it many times over.
So what is left for a human being when his intellect becomes worthless beside the machine he created?
This is exactly the time to strengthen the one thing that artificial intelligence will never be able to replace: the spirit!