‘Stargate. compose this down, due to the fact that you will hear a lot about it," said Donald Trump, announcing the largest investment in the improvement of generic artificial intelligence systems in U.S. history. The aim of the task is to build super-intelligence, that is, in the language of transhumanists, a “god” that will service us.
The name “Stargate” refers to a science-fiction movie of the same name (in the Polish translation “Stargate”), where interstellar travel can be made through portals. The beginnings of the task date back to 2022 erstwhile Microsoft announced a partnership with OpenAI, accounting for $100 billion. It was already announced at that time as “the largest infrastructure venture in the past of the United States.”
With the change of power in the White House, "Stargate" received a turbocharge of US$500 billion for 4 years and the position of a state weight case. The investment will primarily cover the construction of immense server rooms and data centers; initially, 20 buildings with an area of 500 1000 sq mi each are mentioned. The task involves high-tech manufacture tycoons: OpenAI, Oracle, SoftBank, Dubai's MGX fund, maker of Nvidia microchips and Microsoft. No wonder that the comparisons to large government projects like the Apollo program or the Manhattan task were immediately made.
By allocating gigantic resources to the improvement of artificial intelligence, Trump wants to supply technological supremacy to the United States. And that specified powerful systems require an tremendous amount of energy, the president one more time reaffirmed the "drill baby, Drill" strategy, a large return to a fossil fuel-based economy.
The main nonsubjective of the task is to build the alleged general artificial intelligence (AGI). By the widest definition, AGI is simply a device that performs the same cognitive tasks as people, which has the ability to learn and get competence in various areas. Digital “brain on steroids” in the opinion of techno-enthusiatists will aid solve global problems like pandemics and climate change, boost economical growth and contribute to strengthening national security.
During a press conference in the White House, the main subject was the usage of AI in medicine. Among another things, the usage of algorithms in monitoring wellness systems, assistance in diagnostics or the fight against cancers was mentioned. Larry Elison, the head of Oracle, even argued about the anticipation of an individualized mRNA vaccine against cancer within 48 hours. "This is the promise of AI. This is the promise of the future," he assured. He was co-starred by SoftBanku's CEO, Masayoshi Son, talking about the coming of the "golden era of the United States". The nipponese (of Korean origin) even argued to accomplish the position of super-intelligence (ASI) – that is, in a nutshell, a device surpassing man in the art of reasoning.
Fellow billionaires
When announcing the Stargate program, Trump seemed completely charmed by the imagination of technology solving the world's biggest problems. However, apart from the enthusiastic generals, it was hard to get any specifics. Even journalists themselves did not take the subject very much, asking questions about mainly current politics.
Definitely more about the direction of change are the names in Trump's surroundings. Altman himself, the most popular “face of artificial intelligence”, appears not so much as a technological visionary, as a clever businessman, turning a start-up founded under the banner of transparency and transparency into a money-making machine. Earlier, Altman added a brick to the uberization of hotel services within Airbnb, and centralization of video game streaming on the Twitch platform. present his luck is valued by Forbes at $1.6 billion.
Despite being the personification of "blood-eating capitalism", it does not prevent him from dreaming of a work-free society.
In his essay “More’s law to everything”, Altman argued that the AI revolution would bring “unthinkable wealth” to the world. In his opinion, by putting smart machines into business, labour costs will almost fall to zero, the planet will change so drastically and at specified a pace that it will be the work of politicians to supply a strategy of fair redistribution of goods and to enable people themselves to "seek the life they want."
"If we approach this well, we will rise the general standards of surviving to an unprecedented level," he wrote. The CEO of OpenAI is sponsor of the largest investigation so far on the guaranteed basic income (UBI – universal basic income); regularly paid benefits for basic needs, of course in the form of digital currency.
Altman is an American hebrew whose magazine Jerusalem Post placed even in 2023 at the top of the list of 50 most influential Jews in the world. The head of OpenAI is besides an open homosexual who formalized his relation with a long-standing partner in 2024.
Larry Elison, mentioned earlier, remains an interesting figure. The Grey Eminence of Silicon Valley, as early as the 1970s, worked for the CIA on the first effort to make a large database of U.S. citizens. Interestingly, the task at the time was called “Oracle” (oracle), just as the company, which has been successfully moving for many years. Today, the company is engaged in providing tools for controlling databases to a large business.
His relation with the services came out again in 2001, erstwhile after the attack on the planet Trade Center he offered to make a digital identity card system.
With his $211 billion worth of assets, Elis has been supporting both the Israeli military and the settlement in occupied areas in Palestine for years. In the United States, he was even tried to support the killing and displacement of the local population. The American remained in warm relations with Benjamin Netanyahu; he was to lobby in the Israeli prosecutor's office for accusations of corruption by the Prime Minister of Israel, while the politician himself offered a position in Oracle.
Born in a household of Italian Jews, he rejected Judaism in his youth, refusing to pass Bar Mitzvah. It cultivates the Zionist identity of Israel, highlighting the state's modernity and openness to advanced technologies. His daughter is simply a titled movie maker (she made a sci-fi movie "Her", where the main character falls in love with the female chat-bot Sky), and privately lesbian.
However, should it be amazing that the modern Manhattan task is surrounded by service people and arms workers? Especially since it is simply a national safety investment. It is much more worrying – a consensus on the power of exponential technological growth, which should be subject to even safety standards.
Hype and control
AI experts point out that the discussion on modern technology dominated the clout of terminology. Today, a very contractual concept aboutGeneral artificial intelligence mainly for marketing purposes. There is no strict criterion to find when, for example, text generators like ChatGPT accomplish the position of the "thinking" AGI. For example, as the media revealed, Microsoft, in agreement with OpenAI, decided that AGI would be there erstwhile the tool... would gain US$100 billion a year (sic!).
We request to be clear: today's tools are inactive only probabilistic machines operating on language symbols. However, this does not mean that unimaginable computing capacity will not accomplish its objectives. For example – helping to concentrate control over information.
The processing of giant data sets at a fast pace allows centralised management at both corporate and government levels. The current algorithms already present have considerable power over human consciousness – getting to know us more and more, affect our consumer and political choices. If we add to this plans to replace cash with digital money with a expiration date, a imagination of the Chinese strategy of "trust" in society is before us, where, for example, funds for life can be cut off for unlawful views.
But even without the realization of dystopian visions, the uncontrolled acceleration of the work on artificial intelligence creates a number of possible dangers. Increasingly addictive time lovers are already pushing us into cyberspace for hours. As a consequence of improbable information noise, more and more people retreat the decision-making process, and text generators and graphics consistently discourage the usage of their own brain. Experts around the planet are beating the alarm: it looks into the spectrum of mass imbecile society.
This includes problems with communication, alienation, social phobias and any another intellectual problems of children and youth, exacerbated by the appearance of the net and smartphone. No government programmes, the withdrawal of equal and inclusive policies or the fight against LGBT+ promotion in the education strategy will aid this pandemic. Suffice to say that the number of sex identity disorders jumped not due to the homo-revolution in the Obama administration, but in the year of the entry into the marketplace of the first smartphone.
It saddens, it would seem, a completely unreflective sale of the American technological society of oligarchy. We're getting into a speeding car with no seat belts installed. Trump himself, enchanted by the technological hagada, seems to care that the ride may end tragically. Prof. Andrzej Zybertowicz has been convinced for years that the IT revolution has adopted a "antifree improvement path". If that's the case, Trump's decision opens her up not so much as a highway.
Peter Relich
