july august of 2017.
in the prior year i had been
communicating with a
marine
who had retired from the marines but was
working special forces
and he had been communicating to me
about a number of
et
related
revelations
secrets that he and a team of special
forces were involved with
and so he had kept in touch with me
usually through short texts
or
every once in a while he would call and
say
you're tapped
i'm tapped i'm only going to speak for
and it would be like 30 seconds or a
minute and then hang up and we i
understood why and that was what we were
doing
well
uh it was in august of 2017.
the phone rang i picked it up i knew his
voice
uh can't stay on the line long but i
want you to know
that this week which would have been the
i think second week of august 2017
in japan
29
humans
were killed in a laboratory that was
producing militarized robots by the
japanese for warfare
and then he went on to explain what he
had learned because they're in these
units that something like that that
would happen
they would receive information
and he said that the story was
the four militarized robots were being
made to be autonomous
warriors
and that
they don't know why
but the four
rebelled or
acted autonomously and as they acted
autonomously they killed
29 humans in this lab
and the whoever was left on the human
side began pulling this is the way he
said they began pulling
the robots
apart they got two of them completely
disassembled were working on the third
and then the
analysis later was what happened with
the fourth the fourth was communicating
with a satellite
that they were teaching these
militarized robots how to communicate
with the satellites to get information
on missions and that the fourth robot
was now extending up to the satellite
and was searching for information about
how to make itself stronger to take on
apparently the remaining humans
what did they do exactly to that fourth
i don't know but i understand they took
it apart would they ever put them back
together
so now
we're up to a point in august of 2017
where i'm hearing a story that is
shocking and uh
i i would say
is like a warning that hits you out of
the blue
that if in august of 2017
four militarized robots being taught to
be autonomous could do that in a lab
it made elon musk
only uh two months before
in june
at the rhode island governors
association meeting there were 30 33
governors from the united states and
elon musk was one of the invited
speakers
and when they sat him down in a chair
and they started asking him his
perspective as being head of tesla and
ex of spacex
he said
i think that the
greatest problem that scares me the most
is artificial intelligence
and he said statements like
people don't understand
that the robots
they're not going to need sleep
they're not going to need sick days
they're going to be able to do
everything better faster more
efficiently and smarter than humans
and then he went on and he said
i am convinced
that artificial intelligence right now
is an existential threat to this planet