According to Silicon Valley mythology, Alphabet, the giant of Big Tech, and owner of Google, got so angry when TikTok, the video hosting service stole a march on Google-owned YouTube and gifted it to mankind. And so, Alphabet decided humans needed to be punished for this. Alphabet commanded Google, its search engine arm, to create a new chatbot using generative artificial intelligence, GAI. Crafted from silicon, GAI received the gifts of wisdom, beauty, kindness, peace, generosity, and health from Alphabet and the other tech giants. Or so it was thought. But GAI was also taught lying and trickery as evidenced in social media, such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Yet the tech giants decided that GAI carried gifts for the humans. Humans, moreover, were created to be curious, and couldn’t stay away from GAI and the urge to apply it to everyday life. But horrible things then flew out of GAI, including greed, envy, hatred, pain, disease, hunger, poverty, war, and death. All of life’s miseries had been let out into the world. The last thing remaining inside GAI was hope. Ever since, humans have been able to hold onto this hope in order to survive the wickedness that GAI had let out. Moral sense: “Pandora’s box”, originally an artefact in Greek mythology, now means anything that is best left untouched, for fear of what might come out of it.
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