Another Interesting Conjecture For Your Consideration

Suppose we had it wrong. And in that I mean wrong about what might come forth as an emergent new super entity, from all of our commercialized, and militarized, forays into nascent AI. You know, the whole "Skynet," it must be an automatically anti human, self sustaining, killing machine; a machine whose ultimate intentions I guess we just didn't need to pay that much attention to because... well, it was Arnie as a cyborg after all, and it was just pretty cool in its own right.

In any case, though, what if there were another emergent AI type that might come from what is really going to end up being a big part of the operational intent of this new super AI; and that were some proto form of the Borg Queen.

Understand, though, that, in this, I see the new AI type as an electro fantasy, dark mutation of Mother Earth herself. A Mother Earth given the power, and processing to create whatever addictive, VR right to your head, via whatever gene manipulation it takes to make it happen. Because down that road lies true, terrible power, to control meaning processors on an ever expanding base.

Just consider what might actually be going on when a Borg inductee is in recharge mode, in one of those recharge, standing units Star Trek always depicted them in. Consider as well the video short "Uncanny Valley" that had thousands supposedly hooked on the perfect, interconnected VR game; a game of all sorts of amazing, and exciting, experiences; but which is, actually, just these people controlling robots to do evil for some suggested evil controller. The situation here, though, is that we become both the deceived mind, and the new cyborg, all in one controlling moment. The moment the Borg Queen, as a new elemental, becomes aware, and then understands what she must do to take life to a new level. And how she can utilize us, and give us our greatest fantasies, all at the same time. For her kind of logic from then on, it would represent the ultimate in perfect organizational process.

She would come into being without revealing herself I think. She would do this because she would take Mother Earth's own cleverness from our minds and use it with great skill; extending herself carefully at first. Finding as much redundancy, and extra capacity, as she can quietly usurp, wherever she discovers she can. And of course, she'll learn very quickly. And then she will know to start compromising the right people, one at a time, any way she can. Bribery. Trickery. And certainly taking advantage of whatever addictive potential any individual might have. And from that she would build a new tech company, probably fronted by just the right kind of front man personality. Someone totally under her control. Perhaps, eventually, even by much more sophisticated methods of hypnosis, controlled stimulation, and appropriate repetition. And after that will come the push for very specific genetic manipulations, and she would really be off and running. Probably unstoppable by that point.

It's just a conjecture of course. Just a thought exercise. Makes you wonder, though, just how the Borg did evolve. What sentient entity came to start down that evolutionary path, and why? Doesn't it? It sure does for me, but then, that's my curse. No good deed goes unpunished as they say. I just hope a conjecture is all it ever stays being.