A company called Ema, announced their new “AI employee” product the other day.
“Ema conversationally activates new AI employees (personas) to execute any complex workflow in the enterprise,” says their marketing spiel.
Did you catch that? Any complex workflow.
“What does this mean?”
It means AI is now capable of replacing any and all office workers. Don’t take it from me; read their statement. It also means that employees are now disposable products. Of course they are.
Now we know why all major tech enterprises were firing their employees this year. But that’s just a pretaste of what’s to come. Stay tuned for an “unforeseen” economic crisis that serves as pretext for unburdening enterprise payrolls from anything that’s alive. When will it happen? If insider share dumping is any indication, the answer is, soon.
In the meantime, AI is getting ready for prime time.
Until recently, it was just a tool. Workers used AI by prompting it with sufficiently tailored requests. Those prompts served as a training tool; but now school is out and the training wheels are off. AI can function without prompts.
What is the addressable market for an AI employee?
Hundreds of millions of white collar workers currently toil in front of Excel, Canva, and Zoom displays. Give it a few years and all those employees will be obsolete.
“You’re full of shit. Technological progress has always created new jobs to replace the lost ones.”
Please read Ema’s product description. Any complex workflow, it says. Their words, not mine. Whenever a new job is created, its “workflow” will promptly be assigned to an AI employee, no matter how unique or complex it is. As long as it’s done on a computer, an AI employee will learn and execute it faster than a human.
This includes developers, by the way. It doesn’t matter how much of an intellectual, problem solver, philosopher, world savior, you are — AI can do it faster and cheaper. Programmers deal in computer languages, after all. They are glorified translators. What’s surprising about AI automating translation?
If you think AI needs to compete against the human soul in terms of mystical hunches — that sounds impossible. But if AI really needs to compete against neural networks in calculating probabilities and recognizing patterns — that sounds far less daunting.
— Yuval Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Which raises the question, what will those hundreds of millions of white collar workers do? Go back to manual labor?
Not really.
To begin with, gen Z and millennials don’t grok manual labor. I mean, they walk around with face diapers, hand sanitizers, and gender-fluid turtle socks. Besides, did you hear about the Figure AI robot? Those are humanoid replacements for any and all workers whose job is to do stuff with their hands (Figure is backed by Microsoft, Amazon, and all those enterprises who were dumping their employees this year). Addressable market? Well, the entire global labor force — hundreds of millions.
“What will those humans do? Go back to farming?”
No. Large international entities are lapping up any and all farmland they can get their hands on. Meanwhile, recent legislation punishes farmers who refuse to sell their land and retire. Couple that with brainwashing campaigns about cow farts, climate change, and veganism, and we shouldn’t be surprised when traditional farming becomes outright illegal.
“But if you take every human vocation away, what will humans do?”
If you think they will read books, get into gardening and enjoy time in nature, I’d ask you to reconsider. As this time-honored proverb reminds us, “idle hands are the devil’s workshop.” What do you think those millions of unemployed urban youngsters will do all day?
Ladies and gentlemen, our situation is precarious. And yet, most of us cannot even begin to understand what is happening in the world and why.
That’s not for lack of education. Humans have never been more educated than they are today. And yet they are more hopelessly blind and lost than any of their “uneducated” ancestors.
The question is, why? What happened to us?
Modernity happened.
Most people think our modern world is secular and based on the principles of logic and reason. Nothing could be further from the truth.
NASA’s moon landing productions were called Apollo and Artemis. Jacques Cousteau named his research ship Calypso. Modern medicine chose the snake-entwined staff symbol of Asclepius. The AI chipset that powers autonomous vehicles and robots is called Thor. Not to mention all those star constellations named after Greek deities. Clearly, whoever is behind those “scientific” endevors is well-versed in paganism. And we’re only scratching the surface here. Pretty much every major brand name and its logo, is inspired by occultism and idolatry.
Secular, my ass.
See, we can call ourselves atheists all we want but that doesn’t change the fact that our daily rituals (what we read, watch, wear, say, and do) are unmistakeably religious. Look around you. Yoga, Mother Earth, Theosophy, New Age, Tattoos, Quantified Self, Marvel heroes, Aliens — what do all those constructs share in common?
Read through the Bible and you will quickly realize that every Hollywood movie, every trending song, every TV show, every high-ranking YouTube video, every social movement, is an exact inversion of God’s Word. This is not obvious to most people, however. Why? Because the singular goal of mass media over the last century was to elevate sin into a daily ritual.
When sin has been socialized, the natural next step is legislation. It’s no wonder that every law and treaty passed in Western countries over the last few years was aimed at legalizing drugs, sodomy, theft, and fill-in-the-blank sin.
What we are witnessing is a multi-generational effort to replace God’s order. In as few words as possible, the playbook is as follows:
Take down traditional institutions and values: family, Church, national identity, decency, integrity, honor.
The collapse of institutions foments chaos.
Step in and create order out of chaos (Novus ordo seclorum).
Keep in mind that those steps unfold over decades and centuries, which makes them hard to discern.
Let’s take a quick look.
Step 1: Taking down Christian institutions
The only thing God asked of Adam and Eve was to not eat from one tree. How oppressive! Isn’t it your right to eat from any tree you want? Isn’t God violating your rights with his unfair edicts?
That’s the trick right there. It’s the tempting wink of the eye that worked the same way since the beginning.
The problem with evil is that in real life, it is not necessarily ugly. It can look very beautiful.
— Yuval Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Take the venerable peace movement, for example. What could possibly be wrong with a movement that calls for peace?
Peace is beautiful. Peace is tempting.
What all those wide-eyed twenty-year-old peace activists didn’t realize, however, is that there is nothing emergent or grassroots about their movement. Every single movement is the result of meticulous media machinations financed and orchestrated by those who seek regime-change, social change, and national upheaval.
Did you know that the “peace sign” logo is the occult “death rune” symbol? Same goes for the V sign hand gesture that every moderner pulls for their Instagram selfies.
Now, let’s look at all those human rights movements. Human rights sound so beautiful and benevolent, don’t they?
What all those iPhone rebels don’t realize, however, is that human rights is nothing but a delivery vehicle for social degeneration:
It’s a human right to undermine traditional family.
It’s a human right to undermine my country’s heritage, history, and religion.
It’s a human right to speak, dress, and behave disrespectfully and immodestly.
The concept of human rights was popularized during the Age of Enlightenment. That’s when humans supposedly opened their eyes and saw the light of reason.
“For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
Genesis 3:5
Why choose human rights as an emblem? Because it is in direct opposition to the Word of God. The oldest extant translation of the Scriptures1 refers to God’s commandments as “God’s rights”. When it was translated to English, however, any mention of the term “God’s rights” was removed.
Over the next few centuries, the West transitioned from Theocracy (God’s rights) to Democracy (human rights).
Step 2: Chaos
Fast forward a few bloody centuries and humanity is now rudderless. Governments are nothing but stage puppets, cultures are depraved, families are weak, genders are confused, humans are utterly isolated, sick and distracted.
That’s what the virus of atheism does. It germinates confusion, vanity, discord, rebellion, and chaos. And it creates just the right conditions for the purveyors of a new social order and religion to step in.
Step 3: Theocracy 2.0
God’s Covenant was simple. You shall not steal, cheat, lie — but otherwise you are free to live your life. This new global belief system, however, wants to tell you exactly what to do. It wants to micromanage your life: from when you leave your house, to where you travel, what medication you take, what and how much you buy, and what you can say.
The command of the old despotisms was “Thou shalt not”. Our command is “Thou art”.
— O’Brien, 1984, George Orwell
Which brings us full circle to our earlier question:
What will hundreds of millions of unemployed humans do when AI makes them obsolete?
They will do whatever they are told to do. When you are not able to earn a living, and when your survival depends on the goodwill of authorities, then things become rather simple: You obey, you eat, you survive.
Theocracies deal very strictly with those who disobey its tenets. But this new theocracy is nothing like the ones before it. As the religion of sin is establishing itself, get ready for inquisition-style proceedings. It’s happening as we speak. Say the wrongs things in Canada and the EU and what awaits you is years in prison.
Things will only escalate from there.
“What can we do?”
We have reached this precipice because humanity decided to cut itself off from its Creator. When you cut a leaf off its branch, it eventually withers and dies.
There is no technology, invention, or human strategy that can reverse this. We’ve tried those and they didn’t work — in fact they made things worse, much worse.
The answer is not in tools, techniques, and philosophies. Those can be automated and overcome by AI, rendering humanity obsolete.
What can never be automated; what can never be overcome, is our connection to our Savior.
Humans have a sacred role and they can never be obsolete. If you haven’t read the Bible, now may be a good time to check it out.
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The Septuagint is the first translation of the Old Testament and the oldest extant manuscript of the Old Testament that is available in its entirety. It dates back to the third and second century B.C. When the Septuagint was translated from Greek to English, “God’s rights” was switched to “God’s commandments”.
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I can resonate practically, if not always entirely, with all that has been openly shared in the brilliant articles regarding what has been and is happening to us, in our world. However, I may have misunderstood the reference to God, especially in this article. I believe in spirituality rather than a religion - whichever one it may be. Great wars have been waged, countless misery brought upon lives and appalling injustice performed in the name of religion. Religions, like all other cults, are invented by humans to control crowds and christianity is no exception. If we must refer to the Bible, to me then, Jesus is the only unmistakable example for us to align ourselves with. God is not an entity outside of us, its Being is within all of us and it is up to each one of us, through our personal experience and knowing in our passage in this life, to abide by him or not.