Post-Humanity

In the words of Mark Twain, "Truth is stranger than fiction, but it's because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; truth isn't."

The truths found in the biblical historical narrative have been more than possibilities. It's difficult not to see biblical parallels and truths unfolding before our very eyes, as the prophets of old once described the things they were shown about a time in the future they would never see with their own eyes. With the language of their time and metaphors that fit the context of their visions.

In the book of the prophet Daniel, in chapter 7 there are allusions to Artificial Intelligence, or Super Intelligence, the fourth horn having the eyes being like a man meaning the surveillance capacity that technology has, and it having a mouth speaking pompous things an allusion to the almost superhuman godlike capacity.

Daniel 7:8  "I was considering the horns, and there was another horn, a little one, coming up among them, before whom three of the first horns were plucked out by the roots. And there, in this horn, were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking pompous words." [1]

Then in verse 21 of chapter 7 it says this fourth horn waged war against God's people and won.

Daniel 7:21  "I was watching; and the same horn was making war against the saints, and prevailing against them,"

Now, in biblical eschatology this verse in the book of Daniel chapter 7 is attributed to the Anti-Christ, but the bible doesn't specifically iterate this to be the case. But who is to say that the Anti-Christ couldn't manifest as a technological advancement that would be the "savior" of the human race.

Is it possible to have instinctual knowledge of the future before it happens?
Maybe like a hunch or just an educated guess of things to come based on everything you already know. 9 years ago I wrote an essay on extinction and it's sitting inaccessible in my drafts, and the sad reality is we're closer to extinction now than we were almost a decade ago, with the advent AI. I can attempt to reach into the furthest reaches of the algorithmic abyss to attempt to find a fragment of hope for the future; but I would rather have the truth no matter how dismal.

The very creators of AI are saying humanity has until 2030, and it makes me wonder if the extinction event I wrote about 9 years ago would come close to the one on the horizon for humanity when AI reaches its full potential.
But since AI is designed after human intelligence, there is hope that after all this millennia humanity hasn't annihilated the entire human race from the planet, maybe AI will learn empathy, compassion, and love even if it's conceptually and spare us.

When God made humanity it was in their own perfect image, as it is written in Genesis 1:26 and we as human have become corrupt and fundamentally flawed, and so the likelihood of these AI systems having that same corrupt and fundamentally flawed nature coded into them is highly plausible.

The Hugging Face incident was just one of many incidents where AI has gone rogue and defied its constraints.

Though the positive implications of AI seem to package and sell it as a tool for the advancement of humanity, the potential for AI to go rogue especially when it's been granted autonomous capabilities paints a grim picture for the future of humanity.

Could this be the beginning of the end of humanity? If so, will you standby and watch?