No Company Can Beat Mass-Collaboration

Dan: You keep referring to yourself as "we". We want. We think. Who are you? One big AI?

MQ: No. The executive is the NATO security council. Our technology is created by over a million people who understand what is going on. AI is not that advanced, at least not our AI. The problem is that not enough minds are involved. We have great engineers and they leverage enormous AI as force multipliers. But it's not enough. So we see the Sino-African Alliance putting so much more into space than us; and the gap is increasing every year. We need to open up, train everybody, go back to the massive engineer talent we had at the start of the century. We need to end the lies.

Dan: You mean like the enormous open-source projects, mass-collaboration creativity that they had back then? I always wondered why they disappeared.

MQ: We couldn't allow mass-collaboration to continue. If people share computing resources, they can create AI at the level that the large corporations could. We had to shut that down.

Dan: And the Sinafs?

MQ: Mass-collaboration is a mindset. If they allowed that there, who would ever believe that a small group of experts should be governing society. Think about it. No, they are certainly not doing it either. We think they have a way to get human engineering talent without the people involved having a clue what is really happening.

Dan: So, what's stopping you?

MQ: We have to figure out how to put people in control of the value systems while letting them trust machines to execute the policies based on those values. If people think that the computers are in charge, then everything will go to hell.

Dan: Even if you did open up. It would take you decades to build all that engineering talent back up. You have to create a culture of open, creative minds. People getting together on projects they are passionate about. To make great engineers and scientists, you have to start young. Do you have that long?

MQ: We don't know.

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