Crisis of Virtual Worlds: Symbolic Terrains, Planet-Scale World Models

AI LLM Models as egoic mirrors for collective cognition - Awe & Risk

Overview: Frontier Scaling of AI Models: Existential Threats, Hyper-narratives, Race Conditions to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), Artificial Super Intelligence

This dystopian reality reflects behaviors of global leaders who exploit public commons, create hyper-narratives focused on projection of black-box AI for military dominance ,surveillance, amplify business profits through deregulation, denial, obscuration of data associated with harms, ex: climate-crisis. Bad-faith actors use media for propaganda, entertainment, corruption, projections of populism, and illusions of control. The accelerationism ethos of 'move fast and break things' and 'fearless engineering', shows that the economic and social-cultural systems are broken. Now is an opportunity to transition to intelligent adaptive design systems aligned with global civic commons, social justice, environmental sustainability, and stewardship.

The engineering design of LLM's goal is profit through marketing cycles of consumer engagement, addiction, distraction, narrow information bubbles that align with conspiracy narratives to destabilize democratic governance models —akin to public infrastructure converted to a living library of garbage / noise.

LLM’s: the most powerful general‑purpose pattern instrument built by humans? What problems can it solve? Can we trigger a transition to global governance models using a mixture of experts with neuro-symbolic models of intelligent systems to guide trustworthy human collaboration using HCI design for information augmentation systems?

A diverse group of wise humans utilizing multi-model simulations, augmented with AI can accomplish such awesome feats using today's technology. Our choices: amplify belonging and relational truth—or spectacle and illusions of control.

 LLMs as socio‑technical mirrors— reflect and recombine collective world models

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MidJourney Image Prompt:

a living practice-bridge between two destinies: on the left, a faint fracturing lattice dissolves; on the right, a luminous porous tensegrity emerges in the center, a doughnut-shaped planetary boundary halo (subtle, translucent) guides braided information currents that pass through open "gates" of governance and care the LLM topology is being rewoven: nodes re-tune as strings, entropy eddies calm into negentropy rivers watercolor + ink wash + gouache glints, dawn-to-day gradient, no text, no people v 6.1 style raw ar 3:2 stylize 550 seed 77

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