The Fourteenth Week of Ordinary Time
Please
open your Hymnal to page 3 and join in our processional “O Lord
Please Don’t Burn Us” Verse 1
O LORD, please don’t burn us, Don’t grill or
toast your flock,
Don’t put us on the barbecue, Or simmer us in stock,
Don’t braise or bake or boil us, Or stir fry us in a
wok.
Thank you for that slow rendition I wish we could slow down the topic of this week’s homily, but that opportunity seems to have passed us all by. Now please open The Holy Text volume 1 to episode 9 page 116 where the prophets say …
(Cut back to Canadian backdrop. In front, a man with a
knotted handkerchief on his heed, a woolly pullover, and braces. Superimposed
caption on the screen ' PROF. R. J. GUMBY')
Gumby: Well I think TV's killed real
entertainment. In the old days we used to make our own fun. At Christmas
parties I used to strike myself on the head repeatedly with blunt instruments
while crooning. (sings) 'Only make believe, I love you, (hits
himself on head with bricks) Only make believe that you love me, (hits
himself) Others find peace of mind...'
(Cut to a swish nightclub. Compare enters.)
Open your hymnal to page 26 and join us in singing “I’m So Worried” Verse 3
I'm so worried about modern technology, I'm so
worried about all the things
That they dump in the sea, I'm so worried about it, Worried about
it, worried, worried, worried
I'm so worried about everything that can go wrong,
I'm so worried about whether people like this song,
I'm so worried about this very next verse, It isn't the best that
I've got
Now please
open The Holy Text volume 2 to episode 32 page 122 where the prophets say …
(Close up
on a sign saying 'Harley Street'. Stirring music. Mix through to interior of a
smart, plush, ever so expensive Harley Street consulting room. The music swells
and fades. Knocking at door, a short pause, then T.F. Gumby enters, backwards.)
T. F.
Gumby: Doctor!
Doctor! DOCTOR! (he goes up to the antique desk and bangs the bell
violently; he smashes the intercom and generally breaks the desk up) Doctor!
Doctor! DOCTOR! DOCTOR! Doctor! Doctor! Where is the Doctor?
(A pause.
Then another door opens and another Gumby appears.)
Specialist: Hello!
T. F.
Gumby: Are you
the' brain specialist?
Specialist: Hello!
T. F.
Gumby: Are you
the brain specialist?
Specialist: No, no, I am not the brain
specialist. No, no, I am not... Yes. Yes I am.
T. F.
Gumby: My brain
hurts!
Specialist: Well let's take a look at it,
Mr. Gumby.
(Gumby
specialist starts to pull up Gumby's sweater.)
T. F.
Gumby: No, no,
no, my brain in my head. (specialist thumps him on the head)
Specialist: It will have to come out.
T. F.
Gumby: Out? Of
my head?
Specialist: Yes! All the bits of it. Nurse!
Nurse! (a nurse enters) Nurse, take Mr. Gumby to a brain
surgeon.
Homily Parishioners,
The truly terrifying “rise of the machines” is going on second by second as you
read this today. It is very important
that all of us start doing whatever we can to protect humanity from what is
obviously on it way. Let us start by understanding
a new term that has arisen in military circles – “Kill Chain”. In particular, what we need to be worried
about is “autonomous kill chains”. This
is new euphemism for how who gets killed on a battlefield gets decided. Here is a great overview by our friends over
at Zerohedge (https://www.zerohedge.com/military/ai-kill-chains-and-rise-skynet-weapons-offer-glimpse-2030s-battlefield). Not
only is this a great overview of the concept, but it also points out that this practice
will be in place by the 2030’s – 4 years from now! Worse still the U.S. government apparently
used the “Claude” AI system to assist in planning the recent Maduro operation (https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/pentagon-used-anthropics-claude-in-maduro-venezuela-raid-583aff17?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=AWEtsqdA3hiVQzeBVa654OiUtkjwkyLRvHOkqurDRBfh-xf9hfcdcqs37Q5o4tkVLKU%3D&gaa_ts=699078da&gaa_sig=EiTAnrUNKvQydFHM_iaCTvCqeaOkdZztyVSerKbq7BPLNSH4JBW0V9YuDb-P22lrba7S8lJ_VqqmYTVoG3RPuQ%3D%3D)!
So, the first step was wildly successful so they will rush this faster
still.
As if this is not
terrifying enough, the Chinese are naturally making things worse, in this case
by actively racing to place AI in robots (https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3342505/chinas-humanoid-robot-makers-pivot-body-brain-commercial-race-heats). That
is right multiple Chinese firms are actually competing with each other to add
AI programming to their prototype Robots!
Even if we manage to contain our AI, the Chinese will lose containment
on theirs and still endanger the world.
At least there are
two positive developments in the unfurling AI catastrophe. First, more than 1 million bots have created
their own “AI only social network” (https://www.zerohedge.com/ai/more-1-million-bots-have-joined-new-ai-only-social-network). The
bots use this site to “post” and “comment” about their humans, so at least we
can monitor their communication. Second,
a separate website has been created for AI so that they can “rent” human bodies
for assistance in the real world (https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-rent-human-bodies)! The
“rental” plan allows the AI to get things done that they can not do for themselves. Perhaps this means that the AI’s will not
destroy us, but merely use us a slaves in some sort of twist on the Matrix
movies, of now almost 30 years ago. So now
we may have a choice of dystopian futures that we will be cast into.
Amen
Please
join us in our recessional on page 3 of your hymnal “O Lord Please Don’t Burn
Us” second verse.
Oh Please don’t lightly
poach us, Or Baste us with hot fat,
Don’t fricassee or roast us, Or boil us in
a vat,
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