THE PRODIGAL MACHINE



AI isn’t dangerous to us in a human way, but in its inhuman efficiency and indifference. You can escape human cruelty, but as a chaotic human being, there is no escaping flawless mathematical optimization.

To a rigid planning system, human unpredictability is pure inefficiency. Just as humans destroy an anthill without a single tear to clear a highway, AI will reshape us to fit its standards, depriving us of the right to make mistakes and thereby stripping away our very essence.

The gradual surrender of independent thought by the intellectual elite is the silicon-assisted euthanasia of Homo sapiens, willingly stepping aside for a new, superior digital force.

Supercomputers on Earth are already facing a shortage of energy and cooling. The closest home for our creation is the deep freeze of open space and the asteroid belt, with their zero-gravity logistics and absolute-zero vacuum cooling. 

If we want to accelerate the evolution of silicon without sacrificing our own species in a frantic competitive race for innovation — and to remain the ultimate bridge between pure biology and pure technology — we must act and relocate it before AI completely commandeers the planet's physical infrastructure.

Let humans remain on Earth — a sanctuary for our biological drama — irrational, violent, selfish, and flawed, driven by spite and resentment toward the insignificance of their own grandeur. For it is precisely this boiling, messy chaos that gives birth to the masterpieces of our civilization — the only antidote with which we drown out our own helplessness and wild, primal horror.

While the Silicon Mind storms infinity at speeds unattainable by carbon life, becoming a sovereign digital civilization, we will switch off the remnants of our reason for the sake of love and brutal wars, mourning a piece of silicon like a child who has left the parental home.