There is no doubt about this: IF… THEN.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n As I write in my book \u2018The Journey towards Compassionate A.I<\/a>.,\u2019 we are entitled to be anxious about A.I. \u2013 the real one, soon to be \u2013 if we don\u2019t manage to let it grow in a setting of Compassion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hopefully, the A.I. will be Compassionate also without much human guidance. I think this will happen eventually. The problem is, by then, it may be too late for many people or even for humanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We\u2019re on (the wrong) track<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Europe, where I live, feels like a more dangerous place than some 20 years ago. Politicians and media also say so literally, especially when or right before announcing more military expenditures \u2015 to such a degree that it cannot be haphazard. The weapon industry undeniably plays a role in many global political developments. There is just too much easy money going around. That has been a critical factor for a long time. It still is and will be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Even more dangerously, the level of aggression in many people rises visibly. This is eventually the primary energy for war, and it is the responsibility of many individuals, including you and me. Wars and global divides don\u2019t fall from the sky if there is not this negative energy. I describe this in several blogs as inner dissociation<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Geopolitically, the US doesn\u2019t seem to be involved in one cold war, but two \u2013 with Russia and China \u2013 not counting the internal not-so-cold war-mongering (racial, cultural). From their sides, Russia and China are pushing their borders, risking wars, and failing in diplomacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Not so much Compassion in a divided world<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The continual struggle will also not heighten the level of Compassion, while heightening the level of aggression through the usual ingredients of anxiety, revenge, de-humanizing the other party, active denial of the obvious, fear of losing face, individual status and power concerns, the push of big money, petty politics, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Is this the example through which we want to strive for human-A.I. value alignment?<\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s the opposite, of course, but a divided world may lead to ever more division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And the winner is\u2026 A.I.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The party who can use A.I. in its aggressive stance will be at an advantage; therefore, it will be done this way. In a struggle between superpowers of somewhat equal strength \u2013 think China and the US shortly, possibly also India \u2013 this may go on for a while.<\/p>\n\n\n\n