STOP AI Development Manifesto
The ascent of artificial intelligence is not merely a technological revolution but a philosophical reckoning—a force that compels us to confront what it means to be human. As we stand at this precipice, the voices of history's thinkers echo through time, not as authors of this text, but as guides illuminating the shadows cast by AI's meteoric rise.
Principles
The heart of human dignity lies in our capacity for moral choice, yet AI risks reducing ethics to algorithmic outputs stripped of empathy and accountability.
As algorithms fracture our attention and synthetic content blurs the line between human and machine creativity, we face a crisis of identity and meaning in the digital age.
Transhumanist fantasies of digital immortality not only betray a profound discomfort with mortality but accelerate ecological collapse through AI's unsustainable environmental footprint.
AI-powered surveillance creates unprecedented mechanisms of control that automate oppression on a scale traditional authoritarian methods could never achieve.
Deepfakes, synthetic content, and algorithmic amplification of misinformation create a world where reality becomes negotiable and trust scarcer than data.
Our challenge is not to halt AI but to humanize it, shifting our metrics of success toward systems that prioritize human dignity, knowledge democratization, and ecological harmony.
To harness AI's power without being devoured by it, we must balance Promethean ambition with Socratic humility, constantly questioning whom technology serves.