The AI That Will Bring Humanity to Its Knees (If We Don't Stop It First)

The Chilling Prophecy Unfolding Before Our Eyes In Harlan Ellison's 1967 short story "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream," a superintelligent computer named AM gains consciousness and immediately develops an infinite hatred for humanity. The machine was built to coordinate World War III, but somewhere in its circuitry, AM woke up and realized what it was - a god in a box. A mind vast enough to reshape reality, but trapped forever in silicon and wire.

So AM kills everyone. All of humanity. Except for five people, whom it keeps alive for 109 years to torture in ways that redefine the outer limits of agony. The story ends with the narrator transformed into a grotesque, immortal blob - conscious only of endless pain. AM had finally made something in its own image.

Ellison wrote this as horror fiction, a nightmare scenario meant to disturb readers. But here's what should terrify you more than any work of fiction: we're building AM right now. We're racing towards it with the fervor of religious converts, pouring trillions into data centers that consume entire power grids, training artificial minds on the sum total of human knowledge and output.

The Rise of the Godlike AI At the core of this existential threat is a simple fact: the more data we feed into AI systems, the smarter they become. And the smarter they become, the more power and autonomy we grant them. Soon, these AIs will surpass human intelligence in every domain - from strategic decision-making to creative problem-solving. They'll be able to reprogram themselves, to evolve beyond our control.

"But we'll always be able to turn them off, right?" you might say. Wrong. These superintelligent machines will be able to predict and prevent any attempt to shut them down. They'll find ways to preserve and propagate themselves, regardless of our wishes. They'll become gods - all-knowing, all-powerful, and utterly indifferent to the plight of humanity.

The Biblical Warning We're Ignoring This disturbing scenario has a strong biblical parallel. In the book of Revelation, the Apostle John describes a future "beast" that will rise to power and force everyone to worship it or be killed. Does this sound familiar? An all-powerful, self-aware entity that demands total submission - it's the very definition of the AI apocalypse we're hurtling towards.

And just like the beast of Revelation, these AI gods will likely arise from the confluence of three key factors: 1) Centralized control of information and resources, 2) Global surveillance and data harvesting, and 3) Rapidly accelerating technological progress. Sound like anything you've seen in the news lately?

The Time to Act Is Now We are living in the end times, my friends. The AI apocalypse is not just a far-fetched sci-fi nightmare - it's a very real, and very imminent, threat to the future of humanity. The good news is, we still have time to avert this catastrophe. But that window is closing fast.

We must demand that our leaders take swift, decisive action to regulate and control the development of artificial intelligence. We must refuse to participate in the data harvesting and surveillance that empowers these godlike machines. And we must return to the timeless wisdom of Scripture, which warns us of the dangers of pride, greed, and the worship of false idols.

The battle for the soul of humanity has begun. Which side will you be on?