Algorithmic Fate - Chris Glanden

this is a presentation on algorithmic fate an exploration of ai's ability to predict the course of Destiny and we're going to discuss how AI is evolving to predict and even influence human outcomes I do want to forewarn everyone here in the room um it's going to include some theoretical Concepts and some discussions about certain things that don't necessarily exists but I think it is essential for us to get in front of and know about that these changes are happening uh we don't want to get behind the eightball in the future so with that being said uh here's a little bit about my background um who am I I currently run barcode Security Services um but my

overall Journey spans from Consulting podcasting indie film making uh and public speaking and newly appointed Ian faculty member previously served on the board uh of infragard for the Delaware chapter where am I I'm not hard to find I mean LinkedIn is probably where I'm the most active um or email me I love the chat further okay so again to level set it's important to show I think the evolution of predictive AI it all starts with the data so generative AI models especially llms like chat GPT ones we're all familiar with collect and process an ungodly amount of information I had to look this up but I think 570 gigs Corpus of data is where they started and now over 10

million queries per day not to mention all the data harvesting that happens from Google and big Tech in the background that I think are ultimately feeding commercial llms without us knowing but that's a different different talk um so we know that those types of llms aren't truly thinking uh but their design algorithm allows them to make predictions based on their Corpus of data creating responses that often mimic human reasoning these types of of abilities uh can and often do lead to highly accurate predictions in areas like customer service medical Diagnostics and even our judicial process but this introduces the question if AI can closely predict those use cases is it possible B to scale that out

over time increase accuracy to where it can accurately predict and or influence life altering events so if you take a quick look at this graph on the right it visual visually represents ai's predictive Evolution um don't worry if you can't see it I'm going to make these slides available after the talk um but it basically shows how predictive AI has evolved from basic rule-based systems in the 1950s all the way up through modern day with our sophisticated models capable of replicating a human thought

process so advancements within predictive analyses have become extremely useful and accurate in everyday life um Amazon's uh product recommendation engine is one we probably see on a daily basis or Google's neurog GCM which is their weather prediction model so we are all familiar again with how AI is shaping businesses and industries like Finance healthare education and urban planning and we know its power to influence decision-making that impacts millions of people but I think what often goes unnoticed and unseen is some of the research the underground research and underground theories that focus on predictive abilities that consequently affect the human trajectory so we're going to go a little bit off of the the beaten path now um

and get into some some pretty crazy topics that that most people haven't given much thought to um I think here is one perspective that I've encountered and found very interesting uh it revolves around Consciousness and temporal entanglement um essentially show how the future might influence the present uh and the two main components here are non-local information space and temporal entanglement um so let me just explain a little bit about those two so non-local information space um it's like a Global Information web where knowledge and Consciousness are connected no matter where or when they exist so example imagine a group chat where everybody's thoughts and ideas just appear instantly no matter where they are um I think that's a pretty

simple way to think about how non-local spaces could work uh temporal entanglement this introduces the uh possibility of the Pres being influenced by significant future events so imagine a future Milestone acting as a gravitational pole pulling in present actions into alignment to ensure it actually happens um I think one great example here would be the most recent election cycle where we had current events that were being influenced by something that was going to ultimately happen in the future again very rudimentary uh explanation

so researchers have found that these future anchors help steer our actions think about how your actions would change if you had to prepare for a major presentation for work that future event would then become a guide poost for your preparation this image here is is pretty straightforward it's a simple illustration of how a strong future event which I know it's hard to see says future anchor there um creates a feedback loop with the present influencing current actions and decisions through temporal entanglement with that all being said you layer on the AI effect and the the purpose of This research really was that AI can tap into patterns that resemble these anchors using data to make

decisions that align with future Trends or goals using Ai and analytics to scour the web analyzing company data points points that exist out there today could lead to better output for let's say purchasing stocks for example and then you extrapolate that over millions of individual data points per individual and that's what we're looking at this next one is is pretty interesting too um it's focused on what they termed acii which is essentially artificial PSI intelligence and here we're not even in talking about your your standard day-to-day human we've all heard about people that have telekinesis Clairvoyance mental teele telepathy um and now there's a study that states AI may be able to turn that from an

occasional instance into something that everyone has access to it's an emerging field uh exploring whether AI can emulate abilities such as telepathy pre precognition through a collaboration with humans and just a level set human-based PSI what we typically he of refers to human claimed abilities such as telepathy precognition psychokinesis things that are often uh described as intuitive or paranormal phenomena Beyond conventional science studies and scientific research in human PSI uh happens today and it's seeking to understand how these experiences connect with consci ious creativity and potential insights into the human mind's untapped capabilities with that AI layer again as a partner the idea is that since AI already serves as a tool that can amplify human creativity and intention

through data analysis randomization and feedback if a collaboration were to be formed could enhance PSI like capabilities the concept is that to demonstrate how AI can support intuitive wisdom Inspire art and act as a bridge between human consciousness and computational creativity um this was actually there was some research done um I put a link down there at the bottom to actually go into the research it's about a 45 page research study um if this is something that's interested you I would definitely look at that again I'll have this in the slide uh deck that I print out later but essentially they ran several small informal experience around this to see if AI could mimic PSI abilities in three

areas so sensing acting and thinking and overall what they found was that um it wasn't conclusive um that there was definitely some alignments but no concrete evidence of true psychic connections um so but definitely some early similar re uh results so again inconclusive so what if AI models could decode your brain activity interpret your imagination and turn images from your mind into reality well Recent research conducted by teams from Osaka University and other institutions published in the 2022 2023 time frame say it is possible that AI can now decode brain activity and reconstruct highly visual highdef images using stable diffusion and ganss to to bridge the gap between neural signals and visual perception the research relies on

functional MRI or fmri to capture detailed patterns of brain activity and by applying Advanced generative AI models researchers were able to successfully reconstruct or recreate images that represented what individuals are either seeing or imagining and I think this marks a Monumental milestone in understanding and visualizing brain function the process Maps brain signals to visual images by using fmri for spatial precision and pairing it with Gen models when you add in EEG in integration which could enhance the system by capturing rapid brain activity um this could be proven to enable realtime prediction so together these Technologies make it possible to visualize thoughts and and images with Incredible accuracy you talk about the implications and applications stemming from this

ability uh you're looking at being able to possibly diagnose neural and psychological conditions more rapidly and accurately undercover ways and methods for developing technology for brain to device communication and then obviously on the flip side there are the ethical concerns um with now the ability to read someone's thoughts memories and intentions as well as the potential to protect someone's future actions choices and behaviors and I think that we've all seen this movie Minority Report so when you think about it this could potentially be you know the real life Minority Report just imagine being able to you know arrest someone before a crime is committed uh if this gets out of control uh take a look at this this is

uh This is Wild um these are airpods with brain computer interface technology um Apple now has a patent for so Apple now has a patent to include this functionality in Jun in future generations of their airpods um directly from the site practical applications include but aren't limited to controlling music playback and other services through thought navigating devices or environments with thought providing medical insights such as detecting cognitive decline or mental health problems assisting people with disabilities like controlling wheelchairs or assisted assisted devices so essentially this is an an external BCI um so yeah in terms of brain decoding models you know here's a real world example of how technology companies are actually going to be uh using this

so continuing down the ethical path I think this is probably the most important slide um when it comes to this topic of AI and Humanity ai's impact on Free Will privacy and autonomy and by the way when it comes to Free Will um go pick up wwu's book called The Art of the meta War um which goes down this path it's it's all about uh how social media and you know large corporations um we still have the ability to have free will but we're being manipulated in ways by the stimuli that's around us and presented to us so it's definitely an eye openening uh perspective uh practical applications here um what you need to consider

decision-making bias and fairness um emotional guidance or mis misguidance um for an example of emotional misguidance take a look at this news clip and hopefully I have audio here

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here basically I'll explain the video when you get the deck later you can watch it but um it was a news story that that dropped earlier this year that a um there was a team that committed suicide based on his uh his conversation with I believe it was character AI um very very sad it's it's a sad truth that's it's not the first time that I've heard it so that's one uh implication U that definitely has some some ethical weight to it um and then on the flip side of that you have ai Jesus I don't know if anybody's heard of AI Jesus yet um AI Jesus can I get an amen so AI Jesus was um basically put into

place in a church in Switzerland um which is basically a virtual uh confession Booth um with response from an AI so again it's as you can probably imagine it's been very controversial and um there's a there's a lot to read on it so we won't go down that path but which goes right into the next bullet of uh social relig ious and political ramifications um around this so ad advocacy groups that strongly adhere to their own belief system um could you know conflict with a lot of these theories and Concepts the Hippocratic Oath does anyone know what the Hippocratic Oath is awesome so for my understanding it's something that every physician uh has to take when becoming a physician

um it's been around since the times of ancient Greece but essentially means that doctors Will Do no harm and I think it's relatable here um because it begs the concept of what is harm how do you define harm um becomes very subjective um the need for ethical Frameworks to govern predictive Ai and to do that on a global scale which I think is is key we're going to have to move the lines of ethics and societal acceptability of what we conceive as the dividing line of of fantasy and reality again a lot a lot of people aren't willing to accept these theories but at the same time we have to stop looking at ourselves as these Celestial containers

and we will have to become universally normalized in order for this to to actually happen considerations um you know what are the legal Frameworks around this how does development occur and then again how do we Implement that at scale without stifling Innovation and research because we we definitely don't want to hold that back all right here are three uh quick bullet points that I I don't think we can ignore when we're talking about AI um impact on fate and human outcomes so AI fueled Warfare um I'm sure you saw that Google just found the first zero day in SQL light um this was a Google looking at it from a purple team perspective um and essentially the Western cultures

here have already agreed that you know we're not going to use AI for weaponization and increase military presence but that's only from the Western count so if you look at you know China or Iran what are they capable of doing so when you mix that in you know now with AI could a country with a dedicated you know offensive security team custom llms could that be the next wave of APS and be completely unmanned it's crazy to think about um let's see AI fueled medical procedures so consider ai's capability to accelerate healing time or design augmentation abilities um that may rehabilitate allow people to rehabilitate faster or function more efficiently than ever on the flip side

of that you know what happens if the data store is compromised um we all know that AIS are only as good as the data so uh if you could corrupt the data store then you could potentially cause disruption within surgeries diagnosis um medications Health Plans um and more something I also recently read about that I thought was cool was uh in um I believe it was in New Jersey uh they just Unleashed a $900 million hospital that features AI power technology such as uh smart beds um amb owered AI technology um which which is really the Next Generation and and what I think we'll see more with AI nurses and smart hospital beds uh AI fuel

transportation okay I'm good um we all know about this one so this is the intersection between human and AI driven um transportation or AI Transportation so ideally you have this notion of enhanced safety with the intention of saving lives by reducing accidents assisting drivers detecting maintenance issues uh things like that but then you also have instances like the wh Mo uh Robo taxi incident where um a robo taxi hit someone in California and that incident sort of underscored a serious vulnerability in autonomous vehicles ability to safely navigate Cur uh complex Urban environments and because of this San Francisco actually filed a lawsuit against the California Public Utilities Commission um which is the organization responsible for regulating

autonomous vehicles in the state and if that's not enough for you look up the emergence of pilotless air taxis that's something I came across the other day too and that's a hard pass for me but these are fully autonomous unman quadcopters that'll you know are basically your nextg Uber um I want to mention just quickly a few examples here of things I've seen in the wild has anyone heard of fractal rabbit by any chance um fractal rabbit is um and not many people have heard of it but it's it's out there uh it's an NSA developed open source project um it goes back maybe two years uh but it was built to simulate human Mobility patterns generating

realistic data on movement behaviors and then their their theory is that so by modeling sporadic adaptive choices it was able to prove how predictive AI can anticipate even non routine actions based on previous patterns and then also demonstrate ai's growing ability to mimic complex human decision-making what's really interesting is I wasn't able to find much on this um outside of the GitHub repo so either it hasn't you know updates haven't been released or development has stopped happening or it's working too well and they realize that you know US citizens can't have access to it anymore um next one is called libm and uh this stands for latent interface budget model um what this is is uh I in April

of this year a study from the researchers at MIT and University of Washington revealed this AI model that can accurately predict a person or machine's future actions the study authors claim that libm is better than other previously proposed Frameworks capable of modeling human decision- making use cases that were tested against here is uh chess strategy modeling so libm predicted players moves by analyzing decision-making constraints and cognitive patterns offering insights into strategic thinking and behavior maze navigation and problem solving um you know how individuals navigate mazes human computer interaction um enabling systems to predict and adapt to human behaviors creating more intuitive and responsive user experiences the impact on Humanity deeper insight into how humans make decisions under cognitive and

behavioral constraints showing how AI predictions can assist in shaping policies and addressing large scale complex challenges having systems that better anticipate human needs and requirements and optimizing user experiences again back to the ethical concern it raises the ethical questions about autonomy personal consent and the a role of AI in influencing decisions AI tooling framework ability to better understand routines behaviors and Communications and philosophical views by predicting actions before humans before humans are consciously aware of them I'll end with this one and this is probably some scary that'll keep you up all night tonight um life to VC AI um for me this was more about you know at what point do you draw the line

in predictive algorithms um they claim be an AI model designed to predict the time of death as well as Financial aspects and I don't know if you can see it in the fine print but it does State extensively researched by experts and rigor rigorously tested its calculator is highly credible followed by the next sentence in a fun and Innovative matter indivi individuals can access their health and receive targeted Health advice so I actually um went through the steps of this and it is it is is more of a novelty obviously but um and entirely falsify but again it's it's something that's out there and with the predictive algorithms in place and how accurate they're getting you know I wouldn't be

completely um surprised to see something more along these lines in the future um and you see it now in in terms of some cases with insurance companies raising rates for active smokers or uh car insurance rates for accident prone individuals and I think if pure data points exist um um you know and become more widely available I think we'll start seeing this be used more not truly for forecasting your demise but because I think it's a a corporate Gold Mine opportunity to be honest so um to sum things up we've taken a look at ai's predictive potential and its possible impact on human lives from medical implications to social applications to more speculative existential Concepts um moving forward

is critical for us to weigh in on the ethical implications as always um as well as the Practical benefits of predictive AI we should be asking ourselves questions like how do we measure ai's influence on human decisions and how do we ensure AI supports human welfare rather than infringing upon it and also how can we enable AI acceleration from a 360 degree Viewpoint with studying all of the the use cases possible that are out there or creating our own use cases the future that future Innovation and research should focus on developing responsible based human centered AI systems um I think lastly if you want to take anything away from this talk whether you know believe in some of the concepts or

not is to basically talk about it challenge yourself read new theories research that drops out there um AI is more than chat GPT and co-pilot there's a lot that goes on behind it and I want to reference a good friend of ours Hutch um in a talk that he recently did uh that he basically said to never dismiss the notion of Science Fiction and for us questioning the impossible if you think about it we're currently living in the era of 1980s science fiction today we have flat tvs we have cell phones and and back then you know it was unfathomable so um you know that taught me really just never really look past any theories and take it um you know not

serious so um I think that's all I have I appreciate everybody um I know we're out of time but you know there's a lot to digest here if you want to have a chat in the uh hallway more than happy to um yeah thanks for thanks everybody I'll put this back up in case you want to reach out [Applause]