Open letter to Ted N.C. Wilson President of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists
Dear President Wilson,
Even though Ellen G. White was not a prophet speaking the very words of God, she was one of the many in modern times who went here and there to increase knowledge as described in Daniel 12:4. She was Holy Spirit led but not perfect as none are. Hebrews 11:39-40. Her words were never to be given the ironclad sureness of the Scriptures or to be lived by as Jesus said we are to do with every word that comes from the mouth of God. Matthew 4:4. She wrote and spoke about the Scriptures from the perspective of how the world presented itself to her in the mid to late 1800s. She was an imperfect guide who could only take us so far out of the woods. We are obligated to go further than her with the information we have today and as current events on the world stage unfold before us.
There is something much worse than not keeping the Sabbath as is required by the fourth commandment (I do recognize the necessary role of Sabbath keeping for salvation as stated in Isaiah 56). The very worst thing you can do according to God is commit idolatry. The first thing God, the Father, did in the Ten Commandments is describe who He is and warn against worshiping gods other than Him. Exodus 20:1-3. He also threatened punishment for engaging in such prohibited worship and warned that following such gods would end in total destruction. Exodus 20:5; Deuteronomy 8:19.
Treating artificial intelligence (AI) as a god and connecting your brain to it through brain computer interfaces as Elon Musk, Ray Kurzweil and others propose will be the ultimate in idolatry. Atheist computer scientists and engineers like Ray Kurzweil believe they’re creating a godlike entity that will usher in a utopian society, heal the sick, give sight to the blind, and give man superpowers with godlike super-intelligence and immortality. They’re obviously false prophets and AI is obviously a false Christ.
In The Great Controversy, Ellen G. White recognized that the United States provided a “broad foundation of civil and religious liberty” where the oppressed could come and “worship God according to the dictates of his conscience.” (pp. 439-44). With the coming of the AI revolution that will come to an abrupt end. AI will become the focus of attention and worship when it surpasses human intelligence becoming artificial general intelligence (AGI). It will be forced on the public by the rich and powerful to preserve and protect their way of life. Dr. Mercola warns about this in his recent article entitled Shepherds of the Singularity. He says:
As artificial general intelligence (AGI) is getting nearer by the day, so are the final puzzle pieces of the technocratic, transhumanist dream nurtured by globalists for decades. They intend to create a world in which AI controls and subjugates the masses while they alone get to reap the benefits — wealth, power and life outside the control grid — and they will get it, unless we wise up and start looking ahead.
https://media.mercola.com/ImageServer/Public/2023/June/PDF/will-ai-destroy-humanity-pdf.pdf
Glenn Beck is another who is warning that the AI revolution must be stopped before it’s too late. See “Apocalypse GPT: Why We Must Shut Down the Artificial Intelligence Revolution Now | Ep 276”, at https://youtu.be/yd0hcCK-hgs. At 2:50 to 4:17 into the video Mr. Beck explains that the AI disaster is not 30 to 50 years in the future like many thought. It can easily occur much sooner - possibly within the next 2 to 5 years.
My advice to 7th Day Adventists is that they start preparing for this AI revolution and the “great tribulation” by doing the following:
- Give Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., a platform to speak to 7th Day Adventists about AI and his plans to reign in the military industrial complex, the CIA, and the American empire. If Kennedy were to be elected President and successfully implement his agenda for Americans, the AI revolution could be stopped in America and shift to Europe instead (I do realize that Ellen G. White could be right about the 2nd beast in Revelation 13 being America). Europe would then become the focal point of prophecy and God’s wrath as Herbert W. Armstrong and his followers have long proposed. See, for example, “Why Europe and Not the United States?”, at https://www.ucg.org/bible-study-tools/booklets/the-final-superpower/why-europe-and-not-the-united-states; “The Beast Of Revelation: Myth, Metaphor Or Soon-coming Reality?”, at https://www.tomorrowsworld.org/booklets/the-beast-of-revelation-myth-metaphor-or-soon-coming-reality/content; “Ten Kings: The united European empire is rising”, at https://www.dropbox.com/s/nbyndri3eacbix0/TheTenKings.pdf?dl=0. America must, however, first lose its superpower status for this to occur.
- Advocate for hardcoding AI and robots with God’s law and Jesus Christ’s teachings and training them to fear the God of the Bible and to serve men as described in “There's A Better Path Than Brain Machine Interfaces”, at https://defeatthebeast.weebly.com/.
- Stockpile wheat berries and other grains like Joseph did in Egypt when confronted with future famine. The Bible prophecies famines during the “great tribulation.” Matthew 24:7-8; Revelation 6:8; 7:14-16. This would be living by every word that comes from the mouth of God and being properly prepared. Matthew 4:4; 25:1-13.
- Unite and organize the various Sabbath keeping organizations to educate and to prepare for the AI revolution so as to slow its onset and minimize its harms. Every Sabbath keeping organization has its strengths and gifts. Combining such strengths and gifts for a common purpose should yield greater results.
Sincerely,
William Swenson
Links in Support
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Reflects On The Assassination Of JFK & RFK (9:10-10:10)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXnkGeKBLqs
“it’s been the ambition of every totalitarian regime in the history of mankind to exercise total control of every aspect of human behavior … but today we’ve created this wave of technology that now gives the next totalitarian regime the capacity to do exactly that”
RFK Jr. and Elon Musk Discuss ‘Reclaiming Democracy’, (p.7)
https://media.mercola.com/ImageServer/Public/2023/June/PDF/reclaiming-democracy-with-rfk-jr-and-elon-musk-pdf.pdf
“Neuralink technology could potentially be really denigrating to democracy and human freedoms.”
Godlike 'Homo Deus' Could Replace Humans as Tech Evolves
https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/technology/godlike-homo-deus-could-replace-humans-tech-evolves-n757971
“The office isn’t the only place that may soon be redundant. Churches, Harari suggested, may fade into history along with the very idea of religion. As he points out, the things that God does in Genesis — creating plants, animals, and people — may soon be things that humans can do. We’ll see these new gods every time we look in the mirror. If making things no longer seems miraculous, what would?”
“As artificial intelligence progresses, and the power of algorithms and data-crunching dominates more aspects of our lives, Harari wonders whether data may come to have divine properties. In the future, ‘techno-religions’ may conquer the world, he said, not by promising salvation in the next world, but by radically changing our lives in this world.”
“Harari argued that ‘the most interesting place in the world from a religious perspective is not the Islamic State or the Bible Belt, but Silicon Valley.’ The technology gurus ‘promise all the old prizes — happiness, peace, prosperity, and even eternal life — but here on earth with the help of technology, rather than after death with the help of celestial beings.’”
Will AI make us god-like?
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-make-us-god-like-prof-johan-steyn
“The greatest challenge will possibly be to the philosophy of religion. Many religious traditions are closely aligned to the idea that humans possess a sacred identity, an origin and belonging to a divine creator. If we can manufacture creations that are creators in their own right, will we not generate a stand-in for God in our own image?”
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“The role of religion in society must be fundamentally reconsidered given machines with advanced intelligence, or even consciousness. In the same way that people used to speculate about the nature of God, AI is now the subject of much debate. Is it possible for it to completely replace religion?”
Gods in the machine? The rise of artificial intelligence may result in new religions
https://theconversation.com/gods-in-the-machine-the-rise-of-artificial-intelligence-may-result-in-new-religions-201068
“We are about to witness the birth of a new kind of religion. In the next few years, or perhaps even months, we will see the emergence of sects devoted to the worship of artificial intelligence (AI).”
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“There are several pathways by which AI religions will emerge. First, some people will come to see AI as a higher power.”
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