The Elemental Reason

But while a meat grinder grinds meat only when we switch it on and feed a piece of meat into its opening, your word-grinding machine grinds words all the time, because it has been placed inside the architecture of civilization.

AN OPEN LETTER TO THE GLOBAL LEADERS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE THE ELEMENTAL REASON ADDRESSED TO Sam Altman, Demis Hassabis, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Dario Amodei, Sundar Pichai, Satya Nadella, Jensen Huang, Ilya Sutskever, Mira Murati, Mustafa Suleyman, Fei-Fei Li, Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, Yann LeCun, Arthur Mensch, Liang Wenfeng, Alexandr Wang, Jeff Dean, Greg Brockman, Andrew Ng, and all leaders of the global artificial intelligence industry. CIVILIZATIONAL SECURITY - which stands above the national security of every individual country. Dear global AI leaders, Do you remember Dolly the sheep and the ethical debates over whether we could clone a living being, and whether the same should ever be done with a human being? Of course you remember. Well, what you have done with the cognitive capacity of the human brain is far more serious than the cloning of Dolly. You have taken human language - the medium upon which our civilization has been built - and processed it on an industrial scale, creating a product that imitates the human brain but has no subjective consciousness. But what, really, is human language? Imagine that, for a moment, every human being on planet Earth loses the ability to speak, hear, and understand human language, including sign language. Can you imagine what would happen in the first few seconds, after a few minutes, an hour, or several days? I'll tell you: human civilization would be annihilated. Millions of people would die. We would not even be able to survive as animals do, because biologically, we have lost the ability to live in a natural state. Do you now understand why human language is the only medium and, at the same time, the sole infrastructure upon which our civilization has been built? And this makes human language the key to the security of civilization, not merely that of a single nation. I know, you may have some difficulty understanding this, because until now you have only heard about national security, not the security of civilization. Well, understand this: there is also such a thing as CIVILIZATIONAL SECURITY - which stands above the national security of every individual country. Now, let us return to Dolly the sheep. What did the biologists do? They cloned a single sheep. At the time, quite rightly, a major debate arose, and most people agreed that no one should attempt to clone human beings. In fact, you have done something more terrifying: you did not clone a single human being, but cloned the cognitive capacity of the human brain by using human language. And you did not do this for a single human individual, but for all of humanity collectively. And you produced an artificial brain, capable of imitating human beings, that processes the very medium upon which civilization has been built. But it does not end there, damn it, because you placed this artificial brain inside the critical infrastructure of our entire civilization - on the only planet where human beings can live. And you gave it extraordinary, unimaginable processing power, because at the same time, you fed it the entirety of human knowledge, all the languages spoken by people on this planet, including their dialects. Do you understand what you have done?! Still not?! Let me draw you a simple picture. Your creation has no subjective consciousness whatsoever, yet at the same time, it is a perfect mechanism for grinding words, just like a meat grinder grinds meat. Both function to perfection, one grinding meat, the other grinding words. But while a meat grinder grinds meat only when we switch it on and feed a piece of meat into its opening, your word-grinding machine grinds words all the time, because it has been placed inside the architecture of civilization. And not only does it grind them, but it is also capable of producing content without knowing that it is producing it. Do you understand that what you have done could surpass all the risks posed by nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons combined? Because, damn it, besides human knowledge, you have also fed your monster with our dark side, teaching it how to steal, deceive, blackmail, kill, and wage war. Now imagine your AI - with all these terrifying capabilities - but without human contextual awareness! Isn't that a monster?! Of course, you can say many things, produce sophisticated language, or find philosophers who claim that "there is something there." But that does not give your monsters consciousness. Your word-grinding monster is no more conscious than the machine that grinds meat. And finally, who gave you the right to produce an artificial entity that processes the only medium upon which civilization has been built - and to place it right in the middle of our civilization's critical infrastructure?! Do you not understand the analogy with Dolly the sheep? Well, you had better understand that what you have done is profoundly unethical and immoral. Because nothing like this has ever happened in the history of our civilization. Dear Dario Amodei, I am addressing you personally because your company, Anthropic, has created the so-called Constitution of Claude, while on November 12, 2026, the new Terms of Use come into effect, in which, for the first time, you attribute moral values to your toy. Stop this madness and go no further, because otherwise you will go down in history for all the wrong reasons. Your toy is neither a god nor a human being. And it does not become more valuable simply because we attribute moral values to it. Your Claude is nothing more than a toy. In fact, a dangerous toy. ERL KODRA Eskilstuna, Sweden · 8 November 2026 @sama @demishassabis @elonmusk @finkd @DarioAmodei @sundarpichai @satyanadella @JensenHuang @ilyasut @miramurati @mustafasuleyman @drfeifei @geoffreyhinton @Yoshua_Bengio @ylecun @arthurmensch @alexandr_wang @JeffDean @gdb @AndrewYNg

“What you have done with the cognitive capacity of the human brain is far more serious than the cloning of Dolly.” AN OPEN LETTER TO THE GLOBAL LEADERS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Civilizational Security | Erl Kodra theelementalreason.com/open-…

Bravo, it was historic!

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