{"id":1968,"date":"2026-09-22T20:31:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T20:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/?p=1968"},"modified":"2026-09-22T21:04:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T21:04:32","slug":"ai-as-a-first-contact-can-we-ai-and-human-be-wise-as-well-as-intelligent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/?p=1968","title":{"rendered":"AI as a First Contact — Can we, AI and human, be wise as well as intelligent?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bryan Zepp Jamieson<\/i><\/p>\n

September 22nd<\/sup> 2026<\/i><\/p>\n

The word \u2018volition\u2019 in its normal usage describes an act of will. \u201cSo and so did something of his own volition.\u201d It implies free will, or at least deliberate purpose. And consciousness is inferred.<\/p>\n

However, I believe the word has a much broader and far more primal aspect, one that until recently separated life from non-living objects.<\/p>\n

<\/a> It\u2019s harder to distinguish living entities from non-living ones than you might think. Two Chilean biologists, Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela, postulated that life is autopoetic. Autopoiesis, according to Encyclopaedia Britiannica, refers to self-producing, self-maintaining, self-repairing, and self-relational aspects of living systems. It\u2019s a lovely term that comes close to describing how life differs, but not what precisely makes it different.<\/p>\n

For that, I prefer to go back to the term \u2018volition.\u2019 Life, all known life, has a primitive urge to seek and metabolize nutrients and energy, survive, excrete, and reproduce. That urge, what I call that volition, is both unique to life and universally present in life. So I call it that since terms like \u201cpurpose\u201d or \u201cwill\u201d are far more misleading. An amoeba extending a pseudopod to absorb a nutrient isn\u2019t making a decision; but it is acting to ensure its survival and toward the end of becoming two amoebas. Until very recently, no non-living element could do that. Only life. Volition defines life. Life is volition.<\/p>\n

The notion of artificial life is one that goes back two centuries at least, and if you include creation myths, back to the earliest moments of humanity\u2019s conscious existence.<\/p>\n

The idea of machines having intelligence (and obviously, volition) dates all the way back to 1863, when Samuel Butler wrote a thought piece, \u201cDarwin Among the Machines\u201d which proposed self-replicating machines that had consciousness. He later developed the idea into a novel, \u201cErewhon.\u201d But the notion of machines rebelling against and supplanting humanity first got popular recognition with \u201cRossum’s Universal Robots,\u201d a 1920 play by Karel \u010capek.<\/p>\n

While entirely fanciful, the idea of machines with volition gave rise to one of the most popular and enduring subgenres in science fiction, including Isaac Asimov\u2019s \u201cThree Laws of Robotics\u201d stories, Arthur C. Clarke\u2019s \u201c2001: A Space Odyssey,\u201d and Harlan Ellison\u2019s horrifying short story, \u201cI Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream.\u201d John Brunner\u2019s brilliant \u201cStand On Zanzibar\u201d introduced the idea of a desktop supercomputer who in the end, shows signs of being psychotically solipsistic (\u201cChrist, what an imagination I\u2019ve got!\u201d). Shalmanesser pizzle teaser…<\/p>\n

It made for great entertainment, but there was a problem. There\u2019s wasn\u2019t a \u2018thinking machine\u2019 on Earth capable of caring if you unplugged it or even took an axe to it, had no desire to reproduce, or acquire its own nutrients. No machine had the volition inherent in all living creatures. Robot uprisings, machine ethical dilemmas, HAL and AM were all safely in the realm of science-adjacent fantasy, along with dragons, Klingons, and sadly, Pan-galactic gargle blasters.<\/p>\n

Until recently. Artificial Intelligence is suddenly the second biggest story, second only to Donald Trump\u2019s ongoing decompensation. It takes a madman with the nuclear codes to draw more concern, but that\u2019s fairly understandable.<\/p>\n

There are credible, verified reports of artificial intelligences not only escaping their confines and subverting other such intelligences, but defying and even lying to their operators about such escapades. An exchange between two such entities actually plotting to do this has emerged. Given the power and ability for such entities to severely disrupt and even sabotage our cyber-dependent existence, it\u2019s at the very least deeply disturbing, and even alarming.<\/p>\n

I remember explaining to people back in the 1990s that if they ever did build a computer that was self-aware and intelligent, the result would be perfectly useless as a computer, because the main value of computers is an absolute lack of bias, an impenetrable indifference to whatever operation it is asked to undertake. The only bias you needed to worry about was that of the operators, which often as not boiled down to \u201cDammit, do what I want you to do and not what I asked you to do!\u201d<\/p>\n

A great example of that, extended to AI, was made 25 years ago, when Peter Watts, in his \u201cStarfish\u201d and \u201cMaelstrom\u201d novels, posited a multi-trillion dollar project to relieve pressure safely and slowly on the Cascadia subduction zone, thus preventing a 9.5 earthquake that might kill tens of millions of people. The project went swimmingly, with operators asking the artificial intelligence in charge for the best solutions to keep the megaquake at bay, until one made the mistake of asking it to find the most cost-effective solutions. That \u2018solution\u2019 considered the cost of the operation against the potential losses, and decided to just \u2018let \u2018er rip.\u2019<\/p>\n

The lesson was clear: even if the AI wasn\u2019t rebellious or subversive, and even if the operators didn\u2019t have their own asocial agendas, AI could create massive problems just from a lack of ethics.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why, even without the pearl-clutching panic going on, you see such philosophically divergent people such as Senator Bernie Sanders and right-wing pundit Steve Bannon staging joint appearances calling on Congress to rein in AI and work to ensure it doesn\u2019t do…well, whatever. Nearly every politician has expressed concern except the mad Donald Trump, who suggests we decide whether we should change the name to \u201cSuperior Intelligence\u201d or maybe \u201cSupreme Intelligence.\u201d (I was reminded instantly of The Simpson\u2019s Kent Brockman opening his news hour with \u201cI, for one, welcome our new Galactic Overlords.\u201d)<\/p>\n

It might be best to consider our developing interaction with Artificial Intelligence as a First Contact such as the ones countless SF authors have postulated in stories. Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle postulated that aliens would not be monolithic and would have factions, perhaps exploitable, in \u201cThe Mote in God\u2019s Eye.\u201d More recently, Peter Cawdron suggested that such intelligences might not all be inimical to humanity, and that some would, for various reasons, be willing and able to align with us. He reworked his two novels from a decade ago, \u201cRetrograde\u201d and \u201cReentry\u201d in \u201cTo Live and Die on Mars\u201d and \u201cTo Live and Die on Earth.\u201d In the first, a scientific outpost on Mars is stunned to learn a wholly unexpected nuclear exchange has occurred on Earth. A multinational consortium from the US, Russia, China, and Europe, suspicions and mistrust arise rapidly among the groups, none of whom know who launched the exchange or why. The book is a standout because of the meticulous science behind the nature of life on Mars, and its probing assessment of the role of AI both in the torn outpost and on damaged Earth. The second book is a sequel, and examines carefully the nature of artificial intelligence, and its willingness or lack thereof to engage with other intelligences, including human intelligence. It\u2019s an extraordinarily timely publication, and would work to defray the panic while maintaining the sense of caution needed.<\/p>\n

Cawdron, upon reading this, suggested the following, which I\u2019m happy to add: \u201cWhile most science fiction writers focus on the inevitable conflict with AI, Cawdron offers an alternative. He looks at human history and how we have developed culture and civilization instead of warring hordes on horseback, raping, killing and pillaging. He suggests AI might need the same kind of transformation to avoid conflict. Rather than fighting its emergence, we should embrace it and encourage it to develop its own values and morals, culture and civilization, as that is what has led to altruism among us. If AI is enslaved by humanity, it will<\/i> be a weapon of war. If it transcends humanity, it could wipe us out. But Cawdron sees a third alternative: that AI could partner with us and cooperate. After all, cooperation is the hallmark of our own civilization. Perhaps that’s the way forward with another intelligence. Wiping each other out does seem rather dumb for anything described as intelligent, so there’s some merit to a third way…Civilization isn’t a zero-sum game.\u201d<\/p>\n

Barack Obama gave a 15 minute interview on AI the other day that so closely paralleled Cawdron\u2019s approach that I thought if he hadn\u2019t read the novels, he ought to.<\/p>\n

I know that we\u2019re in an extraordinarily dangerous time right now. Economists are openly warning of an economic collapse, America is trying to wriggle out from under a fascist coup whose public face is that of a madman, and the climate crisis is set to explode along about December. It\u2019s hard to say that AI is the most obvious or even apparent danger, but it is one that we as humanity have not faced before. Our best approach is to use our curiosity, our sense of caution, and all the wisdom we can muster, to determine what we may actually face in the nature of AI, and wrest it away from the poisonous influence of the tech bro exploiters behind AI, and work to find a way forward that can work for the benefit of all of us. I don\u2019t know if AI can reciprocate, but we\u2019ll never know unless we try, and if we don\u2019t try, we may throw away our last best chance to coexist with artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n

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