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To answer the blog's title, probably not.  But Skynet's underlying premise of Artificial Intelligence has a strong possibility of having an equally insidious and detrimental impact upon humanity here in Amerika.  The saying years ago—more accurately, decades now—was that a picture is worth a thousand words.  More recently, a video was worth a million words.  With the advent of AI, neither is any longer worth squat, to use a common vernacular.

Just the last couple of years have seen remarkable growth in the technology.  While perfect for creating entertaining videos on YouTube and other such innocuous purposes, AI is almost certainly going to be used by the world’s largest crime syndicate—the U.S. legal system, or “syndicate” for short—for no good purposes.  I predict AI will be used as just another tool for the syndicate to spin things the way it desires.

For example, any audio or video recordings made by the public—covertly or otherwise—of syndicate members either committing crimes or admitting to crimes will be deemed “AI generated” and thus not authentic by the syndicate in order for it to protect its members.  Just as the law is now used as a tool to reach predetermined case outcomes—always to the syndicate’s advantage by ignoring statutes that incriminate it and recognizing statutes that don’t—so will AI technology be used, but the negative implications of it will be orders of magnitude more difficult to overcome.  After all, how can one dispute what appears to be a genuine video that one sees with his or her own eyes?

The technology used to be easily spotted: people being rendered with extra fingers, skin having a plastic appearance, and whatnot, but now it is extremely difficult to distinguish the real from the fake.  I watched what I thought was a real auto race recently, only to learn it was completely AI generated.  If it can fool me, it can probably fool the majority of the population.  And the scariest part of all is that the technology is still in its infancy.

I’ve never been wrong about a single prediction regarding anything the syndicate has done over the last decade or so, but I sure as hell hope I’m wrong this time.  Think about it.  The big push less than a decade ago was to have police officers wear body cameras so that they could no longer (easily) falsify police reports and other records.  Now, with the advances in AI tech, they will probably be more likely not to “accidentally” turn off such cameras while on duty.  No, they will be almost certain to leave them running constantly.....and then later edit the footage to reach their intended results.

Conversely, any exculpatory evidence John Q. Public provides in order to protect himself from these criminals will be easily altered by the syndicate to incriminate him.  Then, a jury will be left to decide whose video is the real one: the defendant's version or the syndicate's.  With a nearly infinite supply of taxpayer money, the syndicate will probably create “evidence” that will be nearly impossible to refute.

When these criminals want to attack someone, they will spare no expense, especially since they are not paying for it.  I can personally vouch for this because I’d estimate the syndicate has wasted well over 3,000,000 tax dollars fighting me—rather than spending a fraction of that to prosecute the criminal offenders whom I fight daily.

It is already exceedingly difficult to fight the syndicate using its own weaponry.  I’ve said for years that guerrilla warfare is the only way—and it is—but now AI will have the same impact upon increasing the syndicate’s power as fission had upon conventional warfare.  The syndicate was already on the fast-track to hell, getting worse every day and at an accelerated pace.  AI takes the acceleration to a whole new level.

I used to say believe your eyes and not your ears.  Soon, we won’t be able to believe our eyes either—not with the syndicate pulling the strings in legal proceedings.....and having the power of AI behind it.  Fortunately, for now anyway, we can at least believe what we see happening live, but there may come a day when we won’t be able to believe that either.  Make no mistake; the syndicate will also use that technology—if and when it arises—to its advantage.

Incidentally, Sara and I would like to let readers know that our blog has been selected as one of the Top Ten Best Anti-Corruption Blogs out of well over one thousand worldwide.  We are honored to have been bestowed this distinction and will continually try to meet the requisite standards by doing our best to fight corruption in the American "justice" system every day.