Ben Elton has made a career out of sharing feelings of inadequacy, but even he is dumbfounded by the stupidity of humanity in the AI age. Login or signup to continue reading AI, for those not in the know, is the commonly used abbreviation for Artificial Intelligence. And in Elton's eyes it is bringing out the worst, and most absurd, human traits.
His new live show, A uthentic Stupidity , is coming to Australia in March. It's based on the premise that even though AI is an existential threat to humanity that promises to render all human life meaningless, it's the authentic stupidity of humans that we should be worried about. "The internet is destroying democracy because we're too stupid to tell the difference between verifiable fact and arse porridge," he says.
"I talk about the juxtaposition between human ingenuity and human inability to cope with the philosophical challenges of our ingenuity. The first thing the internet becomes awash with? Porn and conspiracy theories. "The authentic stupidity is coupled with a fiendish ingenuity.
We're basically too clever for our own good." He clearly feels strongly about this. "I do! If AI is the greatest threat to our humanity, well, we've allowed it to be," Elton says.
"Clearly we are so stupid that we let a bunch of unelected, unaccountable, tax-avoiding billionaires floating in their yachts off Malibu or blasting off in their dick-shaped rockets up to private space stations to come up with technology that they themselves admit is goin.
