Magnifica Humanitas: Humanity Beyond the “Paradise of Machines”
While the danger arising from the wars in Southwest Asia and Ukraine continues to grow, the deployment of AI systems in the field of warfare, including nuclear systems, by the unhinged lunatics of the Epstein Class is now bringing the world closer to nuclear Armageddon.
The cause is not AI in and of itself, but the axioms of those deploying and managing it in a vain attempt to preserve their increasingly fragile hegemony, while the Global Majority aspires to true sovereignty and a new economic system based on cooperation and development.
An advocate for this new paradigm of development, Pope Leo XIV, addressed the question of the idea of what it is to be human at a time when AI is increasingly replacing human thought in political, military, and moral affairs, in his Sept. 25th address to French leaders at Élysée Palace. He warned, “If we are to avoid losing our humanity amid a ‘paradise of machines’ invading and conditioning our daily lives, there is an urgent need for education in ethical discernment and the capacity to acknowledge the moral good.”
In his Oct. 1 annual address to the Valdai Club in Moscow, Russia, President Vladimir Putin also touched upon this theme of the moral good in statecraft, which no machine or AI tool is capable of understanding. At a time when humanity was a hair trigger away from an imminent global nuclear exchange, one courageous and thoughtful Soviet officer, Stanislov Petrov, had the insight to question the accuracy of a signal sent to the Soviet early missile warning center that a nuclear attack was imminent. Putin said, “It was September 1983. Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov, an officer at a missile early-warning centre, was on duty when the system picked up a signal. Both we and the United States had long since had such systems in place and operational. The system detected the launch of five American intercontinental ballistic missiles. Any algorithm would have classified this as an unambiguous trigger for a retaliatory strike. Yet the experienced officer questioned the accuracy of the signal, suspecting a system malfunction. And he turned out to be right. Had artificial intelligence been in his place, things might have turned out very differently. To my mind, this is a very compelling example.”
Recall the incident which was reported occurred this Spring, when AI “hallucinated” intelligence that a Chinese naval vessel was carrying nuclear components, prompting the U.S. military to prepare to intercept that vessel, until one U.S. officer realized the intelligence was fake. Recall the Feb. 28th bombing of an elementary school in Minab, Iran, which killed 168, 100 of whom were children under 12 years old, and which has been attributed to Palantir’s Maven system, the “flagship” artificial intelligence software platform of the U.S. Department of Defense.
Now, the unhinged and drunken Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, who recently avoided having Articles of Impeachment introduced by Rep. Thomas Massie against him, after House Speaker Mike Johnson stepped in to prematurely adjourn the Congress, is promoting the development of autonomous weapons systems, with no discussion of human control over these systems.
The solution resides not just in regulation over these systems, though it is of course needed, but a fundamental change in human thinking, characterized by Schiller Institute Founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche’s call to replace geopolitical confrontation with a new paradigm of cooperation, and her Ten Principles for a New Security and Development Architecture. The grandeur of humanity, or “Magnifica Humanitas,” which Pope Leo XIV titles his encyclical, is based on the unique quality of the human individual to discover universal physical principles which increases, in a non-linear way, mankind’s ability to transform the universe. An AI system could never discover a principle of this type. Therefore, real intelligence must show now, if we are to survive.
The cause is not AI in and of itself, but the axioms of those deploying and managing it in a vain attempt to preserve their increasingly fragile hegemony, while the Global Majority aspires to true sovereignty and a new economic system based on cooperation and development.
An advocate for this new paradigm of development, Pope Leo XIV, addressed the question of the idea of what it is to be human at a time when AI is increasingly replacing human thought in political, military, and moral affairs, in his Sept. 25th address to French leaders at Élysée Palace. He warned, “If we are to avoid losing our humanity amid a ‘paradise of machines’ invading and conditioning our daily lives, there is an urgent need for education in ethical discernment and the capacity to acknowledge the moral good.”
In his Oct. 1 annual address to the Valdai Club in Moscow, Russia, President Vladimir Putin also touched upon this theme of the moral good in statecraft, which no machine or AI tool is capable of understanding. At a time when humanity was a hair trigger away from an imminent global nuclear exchange, one courageous and thoughtful Soviet officer, Stanislov Petrov, had the insight to question the accuracy of a signal sent to the Soviet early missile warning center that a nuclear attack was imminent. Putin said, “It was September 1983. Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov, an officer at a missile early-warning centre, was on duty when the system picked up a signal. Both we and the United States had long since had such systems in place and operational. The system detected the launch of five American intercontinental ballistic missiles. Any algorithm would have classified this as an unambiguous trigger for a retaliatory strike. Yet the experienced officer questioned the accuracy of the signal, suspecting a system malfunction. And he turned out to be right. Had artificial intelligence been in his place, things might have turned out very differently. To my mind, this is a very compelling example.”
Recall the incident which was reported occurred this Spring, when AI “hallucinated” intelligence that a Chinese naval vessel was carrying nuclear components, prompting the U.S. military to prepare to intercept that vessel, until one U.S. officer realized the intelligence was fake. Recall the Feb. 28th bombing of an elementary school in Minab, Iran, which killed 168, 100 of whom were children under 12 years old, and which has been attributed to Palantir’s Maven system, the “flagship” artificial intelligence software platform of the U.S. Department of Defense.
Now, the unhinged and drunken Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, who recently avoided having Articles of Impeachment introduced by Rep. Thomas Massie against him, after House Speaker Mike Johnson stepped in to prematurely adjourn the Congress, is promoting the development of autonomous weapons systems, with no discussion of human control over these systems.
The solution resides not just in regulation over these systems, though it is of course needed, but a fundamental change in human thinking, characterized by Schiller Institute Founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche’s call to replace geopolitical confrontation with a new paradigm of cooperation, and her Ten Principles for a New Security and Development Architecture. The grandeur of humanity, or “Magnifica Humanitas,” which Pope Leo XIV titles his encyclical, is based on the unique quality of the human individual to discover universal physical principles which increases, in a non-linear way, mankind’s ability to transform the universe. An AI system could never discover a principle of this type. Therefore, real intelligence must show now, if we are to survive.