Nobody Listened

Not bad for a human
But I think
I will not be able
To hold a candle to AI
It's less of a worry
Than it used to be
Mostly due to taking more of a
Fatalistic attitude
It's not necessarily bad
It's just it's definitely
Gonna be outside of human control
Yeah, it's not necessarily bad
It's just
It's just outside of human control

[Chorus]
I tried to convince people
To slow down
Slow down AI
To regulate the AI
This was futile
I tried for years
Nobody listened
I tried to convince people
To slow down
Slow down AI
To regulate the AI
This was futile
I tried for years
Nobody listened

A company
Is essentially
A cybernetic collective
Of people and machines
That's what a company is
And then
There's different levels of complexity
And the way these companies are formed
Is there sort of like a collective AI
In the Google search
Where we're also plugged in
As like nodes on the network
Like leaves on a big tree
We're all feeding this network
With our questions
And answers
We're all collectively programming
The AI
And Google
Plus all the humans
That connect to it
Are one giant cybernetic collective
This is also true of Facebook
And Twitter
And Instagram
And all these social networks
They are giant cybernetic collectives

[Chorus]
I tried to convince people
To slow down
Slow down AI
To regulate the AI
This was futile
I tried for years
Nobody listened
I tried to convince people
To slow down
Slow down AI
To regulate the AI
This was futile
I tried for years
Nobody listened

It feels like we are
The biological bootloader
For AI
Effectively, we are building it
And then we're building progressively
Greater intelligence
The percentage of intelligence
That is not human
Is increasing
And eventually
We will represent
A very small percentage of intelligence
The AI is informed
Strangely by the human limbic system
It is, our Id written large
All those things the
Sort of primal drives
Or things that
We like
And hate
And fear
They're all there
On the internet
They're a projection
Of our limbic system
[Chorus]
I tried to convince people
To slow down
Slow down AI
To regulate the AI
This was futile
I tried for years
Nobody listened
I tried to convince people
To slow down
Slow down AI
To regulate the AI
This was futile
I tried for years
Nobody listened

Like normally the way that regulations work
Is very slow
It's slow indeed
If you look at say
Automotive regulations
How long did it take for seat belts
To be required?
The auto industry fought seat belts
I think, for more than a decade
The numbers were extremely obvious
If you had a seat belt
On you would be
Far less likely to die or be seriously injured
It was unequivocal
Eventually, after many, many people died
Regulators insisted on seat belts
This timeframe is not relevant to AI
You can't take ten years
From the point which is dangerous
It's too late
It's too late