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Ceci's avatar

AI is not inherently enslaving or liberating. It amplifies the consciousness of those who wield it.

Wizard Withwords's avatar

Perfectly said. Yes, AI is an amplifier. Which is great if it’s amplifying the best of us, and less so when it does the opposite.

Dianne's avatar

As for me I am pushing 80, yes a boomer and self proclaimed woo woo weirdo.

I am finding I am spending more and more time exploring Infinite Intelligence as compared to AI. The cognitive process, and my evolving consciousness. It’s fascinating, new thoughts are creating a new reality of me as an energy being, fine tuning to higher frequencies. The knowing I am an extension of Source, the energy that creates worlds.

I am not afraid but excited as a cooperating component to what is unfolding. Your writings resonate with me, stir new possibilities, thank you.

Wizard Withwords's avatar

I like the woo woo weirdo’s, Dianne! And I love what you’re saying here - living in a human body fully aware that you are an extension of Source. This is how I try to move through the world too!

Julianne's avatar

Thank you, Wizard, for your insights and historical perspective on many eras of invention and change - and how the heart is the path forward. My main concern is not only about AI, but about the collective damage done by all corporate technologies to the animal kingdom. We humans are rapidly eliminating an entire kingdom of beings - beautiful, wondrous, unique beings - each with their own right to exist. AI is only one of all the collective technologies that are rapidly destroying habitat and reproductive capacities of the animal kingdom. We are losing over 100 species per day, including insects, because of the many human “advances”. Please tell us how the planetary changes and our heart-centered evolution will impact the wondrous animal kingdom? I am heartsick about every elephant murdered for its tusks, for every polar bear starving as ice recedes, for every bear trapped in a cage as its bile is painfully extracted, for every shark whose fins are cut off for soup, for every crying calf taken from its grieving mother to be tortured to make veal at an Italian restaurant, for every animal suffering because of the collective harm done by all of these “advances”. Will our human hearts open in time before the entire kingdom of animals, birds and insects and their natural habitats are decimated?

Wizard Withwords's avatar

Dear Julianne, I felt every bit of your heart in this message. Thank-you for holding so much care for the animals of this world - that you mourn every death and grieve ever cruelty is profoundly beautiful, and much needed. When you let those feelings flow through your heart you help transmute the pain for all of us. 

The map in the stars answers your question quite clearly - it doesn’t promise that every species will survive, but it does show a trajectory of consciousness - from separation toward recognition. Your heartbreak is not a sign you’re too sensitive; it's a sign you’re early. You’re already living in the consciousness Neptune in Taurus (2038 - 2051) and Pluto in Pisces (2043 - 2066) will eventually bring to the collective.

The grief is appropriate. The grief is medicine. Neptune teaches that grief is how the heart dissolves false boundaries. Every tear shed for an elephant or a calf is part of the collective awakening.

The next 20 years (Pluto in Aquarius) will be the hardest with systems resisting change and technologies accelerating before wisdom catches up. But by the 2040s-2060s, as outer planets move through water and earth signs (Neptune in Taurus, Pluto in Pisces, Uranus in Scorpio), the felt experience of kinship with animals will become more available to ordinary consciousness.

The question "Will our hearts open in time?" is the right question. The answer the stars give is that some hearts are already open. Yours is proof. The work is to keep that heart open while the collective catches up, and to trust that the catching up is happening, even when it doesn't feel fast enough. xx

Julianne's avatar

Thank you, Wizard, for your understanding and kindness.

Dianne's avatar

I follow Suzanne Asha Stone. She is the director of the International Wildlife Coexistence Network. She has been a wildlife conservation activist for 30 years. I find inspiration and hope in her writings.

Elizabeth Jameson's avatar

Thank you for this, Wiz, and I agree wholeheartedly. Wondering what AI platform you recommend given the unsubscribe link above?

Wizard Withwords's avatar

I don't claim to be an expert on the ins and outs of AI companies, so I'm happy to be corrected if there's something I'm missing here. But I unsubscribed from ChatGPT given some of their recent concerning behaviour. OpenAI’s CEO Greg Brockman recently gave $25 million to Donald Trump, and ICE is using OpenAI's technology to screen its own job applicants as it ramps up hiring for deportation operations. OpenAI also helped launch a $100million Super PAC to ensure no state in America can regulate AI, opposing politicians who support state-level AI safety laws. They seem to want Trump and only Trump to write the rules for the most powerful technology ever. I say, no thanks!

I have found Anthropic (Claude) to be just as powerful and useful…..perhaps even more so. Anthropic was founded in 2021 by Dario and Daniela Amodei, two executives who left OpenAI specifically because they were concerned it was prioritising commercialisation over safety. They named their company Anthropic to signal that humans (anthro) should be at the centre of the AI story and guide its progress.

What sets Anthropic apart structurally is that they're incorporated as a public-benefit corporation, which requires the board to balance private and public interests and report regularly on how the company has promoted its public benefit. Failure to comply can trigger shareholder litigation, giving this structure real teeth.

They went even further by creating a Long-Term Benefit Trust, which gives five independent trustees control over appointing and dismissing board members. These trustees select directors based on their commitment to Anthropic's stated purpose: "the responsible development and maintenance of advanced AI for the long-term benefit of humanity." This structure ensures that major investors like Amazon and Google can contribute without steering the ship away from safety.

Anthropic has also been notably transparent about their safety practices - publishing their AI Safety Levels framework, their Constitutional AI research, and making protocols freely available - while OpenAI has been comparatively opaque about how their safety commitments translate into actual policies. 

Of course, no system is perfect, and every company has flaws, but it does seem to me that Anthropic is trying to do things ethically. Where we put our dollars matters - it speaks very loudly. Those are my thoughts, and as I said, happy to be corrected if there’s something I’m missing here.

Elizabeth Jameson's avatar

Thank you! I knew some of this but you shared far more. I’m making the shift and grateful for your sharing