Technology billionaires with companies in Silicon Valley are strengthening their insurance against the end of the world and it is not a metaphor, figures like Mark Zuckerberg, Samman and Reid Hoffman would be investing in underground bunker remote properties and security complexes as uncertainties grow about the future of artificial intelligence, the climate and global stability.
Elon Musk and Jeffs Kisses, for their part, are working to take humans to the stars, in Hawaii, Zuckerberg would be building a gigantic complex with an underground structure, Red Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn, admits to having refuge properties in New Zealand, the preferred destination of the ultra-rich as a plan B in case of social collapse.
The official justification of these magnates is preparation, not paranoia, but many see this behavior as a warning sign coming from those at the center of creating technologies that can change or threaten the planet, with some AI developers openly expressing their concern. Ilya Sutskever, co-founder of OpenAI, reportedly said, “we will definitely build a bunker before releasing generative AI.”
The idea of an artificial general intelligence capable of thinking and acting autonomously like a human, which can become uncontrollable, fuels this new race for security. Other risks such as nuclear war, pandemics and climate collapse complete the package of fears that sustain the luxury banker market, but not everyone shares the same panic. Professor Wendy Hall of the University of Southampton considers that this anxiety is exaggerated, "AI technology is incredible, but it is far from surpassing human intelligence." According to her, current AI does not understand the world, it only recognizes patterns and predicts results.
Experts suggest that the fear of super intelligence could be more of a marketing and self-promotion strategy than a scientific forecast, Neo Lawrence, a professor at Cambridge, claims that the concept of a general AI is illusory, meanwhile, governments are trying to find a balance; The United States oscillates between regulating and liberating the advancement of AI; The United Kingdom created an institute dedicated to technological security and China is moving forward towards global leadership in the area.
Researchers warn that focusing on apocalyptic scenarios diverts attention from immediate concrete problems, misinformation, technological unemployment, concentration of power and digital inequality, while the public imagines a rebellious AI, large corporations are already silently shaping the real world, controlling data, economies and social decisions with invisible algorithms.
The fear of billionaires may be both a form of psychological projection and a disguised marketing strategy, but there is an inevitable irony in all of this, those who are creating the tools that transform the planet are the same ones who are now building shelters to escape the possible negative consequences.
The question is inevitable, don't you think? Are they predicting the future or do they know what is coming and are they trying to escape from what they themselves are helping to create?
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