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ARTIFICIAL INTEL DEBATE: FANTASY, FALLACY AND FRAUD

Something's going on in the world of Artificial Intelligence. On June 1 a very interesting podcast was posted on the state of AI. You can watch it here below. To sum up what we concluded on this blog thus far about AI: 1. it is not a life form (the human, material brain is the model, but AI is not a brain), 2. it can’t become conscious since it is a machine, 3. the word 'intelligence' is propaganda: computation is not intelligence, let alone wisdom, 4. its universe consists of data on the Internet; if it's not on the Internet, it doesn't exist for AI. AI is bound to become an echo chamber or a recycling mechanism of rationalistic Enlightenment mistakes. I don't need to repeat the entire discussion here, but we point out a few of the most salient conclusions. Also watch our weekend edition on 'mind children' (link). 


June 1, 2026 Transfigured: John Vervaeke & Jonathan Pageau - AI Discussion. 

- AI has no access to the most important human capabilities and qualities required for knowledge and intelligence (let alone consciousness).
- At the current stage, AI is a Large Language Model (LLM), which will not lead to the most dangerous form, Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), according to John Vervaeke who used to be an AI enthusiast. 
- The models are weakening and degrading over time, like photos of photos. 

Tech oligarchs are not philosophers. They even lack the impulse that leads to reality. They are children of their time, steeped in Nominalism (link) and crypto Gnostic assumptions. They lack the world view needed for understanding how reality works.

They think consciousness occurs spontaneously out of embodied electricity, because that is what happens in the brain, so.... Now some claim AI does not even need to be embodied to be sentient.

As Pageau is pointing out, putting these synapses in a physical box (like a robot, or a computer) is not the same as having a physical body.

Watch Professor of Computer Science, Yann LeCun explain that intelligence has nothing to do with thinking and his example how mind and body are an integral whole (link).

There is no connection between AI's purpose and the embodiment. Humans give it purpose. But we have no ontology how to relate to it. 

For all the recent propaganda about AI companies going public to fund their projects and about speeds out of this world, the construction of data centers is currently on hold and the cost of using AI is getting prohibitive.

So much so that Brave browser has reverted to returning old style search engine answers, instead of replying to prompts with AI answers. Free chat bots are closing down. 

AI art (images, videos and music) is so boring, people switch off once they've seen a few productions. It's repetitive, it mechanistic, music reaches muzak stage after two songs. It's not art. It's copying, clever, but copying.

The discussion about vice and virtue is very interesting and explains in detail, the nature of 'value'. Every way of monetizing AI and every business model, is necessarily parasitic.

Vice is quantifiable, virtue is not. Vice happens without effort, but virtue must be fought for. It needs upkeep and deliberate effort, vice maintains itself through sin and addiction. Reality is harder to get to than illusion. Vice in the end is self destructive.

The degenerative process can take a lot of time, but in the meantime it can do a lot of damage and human cost will be incalculable. The weakest pay the price. 

It is remarked elsewhere that the actual use of AI is in warfare. And this may also be the reason why no one wants to stop it. That goes specifically for the most dangerous course that AI may take: that of autonomous weapons. 

The further AI advances, we're losing knowledge and skills. Which means that at some stage in the near future, we will reach the point of no return. Which may be the reason for calling a world wide, six month moratorium. 


The propaganda on social media is somewhat contradictory, or is it? In the last week or so, there's a strong effort to sell us disembodied consciousness, which is made up by fantasists out of whole cloth.

It may well be an effort to divert attention away from the news that the entire project is in danger of coming apart. 


The debate was spurred on by the Pope, who is not often right, but he is in this case. The Greek Government has already proposed a legislation that AI must serve man, stressing the imperative to avoid the Moloch trap (AI becoming an idol, but that very much depends on our perception of AI on an individual basis). 

President Donald Trump signed a scaled-back Executive Order on June 2, 2026, establishing a voluntary framework for the federal government to review advanced AI models before their public release.

The directive reduces the pre-release access window to 30 days, down from a proposed 90 days, aiming to balance national security concerns with industry innovation, Thirty days is of course much too short.



June 4, 2026 War Room: Joe Allen: AI Upheaval — From the Great Reset to the Great American AI Act. Part 2.

AI needs careful screening and regulating. It is time for the political Right to abandon romantic, libertarian, Utopian notions about entrepreneurs' supreme ethics that have nothing to do with reality. This naïveté is dangerous at the time of AI posing a threat to the fate of humanity! 





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