Podcast Final Revision - 4_14_19, 6.09 PM.

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Max [00:00:12] Attention all survivors. If you're listening to this you are now a part of the
resistance. You do not get recruited. You not get born into this, but it just happens to be
you lived and now we have to fight back for humanity. For years we have relied on
technology gave them everything, gave them all of our time. We played on VR. We even
got them into our medical robotics and now the AIs that we have designed to help us have
learned us inside and out. And now they have essentially given us our doom. They have
turned on us and the only reason why I'm alive is because I was smart enough to build this
bunker. People called me crazy. People never believed me but I always told them the day
would come. And here it is. And for all the survivors out there: you are the resistance.

Max [00:01:06] I'm Max and I'm in my war bunker with some very trusted colleagues. Go
ahead introduce yourselves.

Blake [00:01:14] I'm Blake and I was a student studying mechanical engineering before it
all went down, but none of that matters anymore. What matters is I'm a resistance member
fighting for humanity.

Emma [00:01:26] Hi I'm Emma, I worked on these robots before they turned rogue and so
I have experience in this field. These artificial intelligence technology devices have turned
against humans and are striking back in our society. And so I came upon this bunker with
Max and Blake in hopes of joining the resistance.

Blake [00:01:48] You all may be wondering how we got in this situation in the first place.
To be honest, none of us are really sure, but we can only assume that it all started with the
surgery on a grape. Yeah, yeah that's right. Surgery on a grape and I myself don't know
too much about it but Max here, he definitely does. So Max take it away.

Max [00:02:10] Yes, we are here to inform you guys I imagine you guys don't have a clue
what's going on. But yes, surgery on a grape. In fact that's when it all started. We started
bringing these robots into our medical field. They started running doctors out of jobs
because they did their jobs so well, so efficiently, so great. And we thought it was a
miracle, you know we had robots performing cancer treatments that doctors couldn't
perform because they couldn't do it accurate enough. Brachytherapy? Yeah, there's a B.R.
1 robot, artificial intelligence, connected to a MRI machine did the exact pinpoint
operations perfectly. And we got clouded. We got persuaded by these things and then we
started putting artificial intelligence in to see they could learn the human anatomy. They
learned how to kill us. And then on top of that, we even started putting nano-robotics, little
tiny microscopic robots so small they could connect to a bacterium to get around in human
body. Supposedly, they were supposed to kill certain pathogens like cancer cells, bacterial
infections things like that. But in reality, these things could learn. They learn, they learned
their own existence. They learned once they finish their job, their own existence got
terminated.

Blake [00:03:17] So you're telling me these robots became self-aware, sentient.

Max [00:03:21] Well, that's why we're in this bunker right now. They became self-aware.
They saw a human as its own enemy. And well basically they're just trying to eradicate us,
wipe us out. And Emma knows a lot about these artificial intelligence as she's been up
close and personal. In fact, this where she worked in this wild one of the reasons why I let
her in here. But anyway, can you tell us a bit more about AI, Emma?
Emma [00:03:41] Artificial intelligence has developed rapidly over the past couple of
years and it has started to become more advanced and smarter. And no one ever really
asked why they did surgery on this grape and we thought it was okay, but this technology
is studying us and will soon learn all there is to know about us.

Max [00:04:09] Yeah I agree with you I mean I think if it can- the da Vinci surgical robot
can just cut a grape open, like basically fillet it and then cut up and sew it with that much
precision, just think about you know how precisely it can just wipe out a human race. You
know, thing is, yeah, I mean the thing is we kind of shot ourselves in the foot with that
because I mean we did it, like 'Oh it would be cool to have a robot do surgery, Oh it'd be
cool to have a robot.'

Max [00:04:32] I mean even Honda started building robots that like, ran you know.

Blake [00:04:37] That, I mean that was... don't even get us started on what that ended up
like right now, that's.. That's a whole 'nother issue.

Max [00:04:43] Yeah, man, it's crazy. And the fact is we don't know what's out there. You
know it started with our phones too. I mean, your phone back in the day.. Even now it was
just, artificial intelligence it it listened to you, you know. I remember I could be talking about
Captain Morgan with my friends sometimes and the next you know I'm scrolling through
Instagram and next thing you know there's an ad about Captain Morgan my phone heard
me and it learned me.

Max [00:05:07] It learned me from the inside out and that's initially back when I was a teen.
That made me, you know, it opened my eyes I was like 'Oh my God' you know, 'this is
crazy'.

Blake [00:05:17] It's getting out of hand. Yeah exactly. I mean like dude I do miss
Instagram like that was, back when that was a big deal, you know now just having some
perspective on things, everything's just gone to hell, really.

Max [00:05:29] Yeah. I miss being a kid. I miss being able to sleep at night. Like, back
then I was like I didn't have a care in the world. I was going to University of Alabama. You
know, I was a premed major everything was great, then I dropped out because you know I
thought, even I thought I was going crazy. But you know, you know these medical robots
sort of showing up and you know I did a little bit of research about it and you know there's
one robot called the Stryker robotic arm. It started out doing like surgeries on like you
know joints and stuff like that joint surgeries. Thing is that, the thing that really caught me
is that it was an artificial intelligence and it was connected to the internet, meaning, like
other robots of the same type would video their surgeries, send them to the Internet and
they're all connected on a system. Therefore, you can upload the video of that surgery to
its CPU or its mind, whatever you want to call artificial intelligence by it. I'm not going to
call it a brain but so by itself-.

Blake [00:06:21] By itself I would send those messages?

Max [00:06:23] They're all connected to each other. They did that to it and to better their
craft. And also you know, my theory is you know when everything dropped and you know
all the screens went black and all the cell phones went dark, you know I think that you
know similar systems of this.. Because you know if if there's medical robots like this I
mean, I know our government wants to hide a lot of things. But you know there's AIs in the
military.

Blake [00:06:46] Yeah, for sure.

Max [00:06:47] I even know it's one of our tanks has an A.I. system. Our fire control
system. I mean if you can put it if you implement an A.I. System into a tank, that's a deadly
cocktail you don't want to mess with.

Blake [00:06:57] Exactly! And A.I. are literally everywhere, like everywhere you look.. At
least back then, you didn't even know you were looking at A.I. you know? But it controlled
every aspect of our lives.

Max [00:07:07] Exactly.

Blake [00:07:08] From what advertisements we received to anything like what you were
talking about with the tanks, it was everywhere. So there's really no escape. No one really
saw it coming.

Max [00:07:18] I believe Emma did some things about, you know the marketing and A.I.
that you knew you know a lot about that didn't you.

Emma [00:07:24] When we first started creating this technology, it it brought out both the
best and the worst of our human behavior.

Emma [00:07:34] It it became incorporated into marketing through all the different
advertisements and we would see on Instagram and Facebook and stuff like that it would
listen in to our conversations and it knew what we were interested in, and we thought this
was safe to put in our society.. But, when it started to learn everything about us then, it
became a little more autonomous.

Blake [00:08:03] Yeah. And the scariest part about that is like probably listening to us right
now.

Max [00:08:08] I wouldn't doubt it.

Blake [00:08:09] Like that's nothing we could do about that. But every day this world it
gets a little harsher, you know. A.I. affected more than just these aspects of our lives, it
affected our education system as well. And at first it was it was a great thing you know
because 'Yay A.I.'s for teaching!' like, that's a great idea because not only did it allow
students K through 18, which is literally every student almost globally with access to
Internet started having personalized classes that were adapted to their learning style and
their learning you know the pace that they prefer to work at and it was all great until we
completely replaced the need for teachers with these A.I.'s just because of how efficient
they were. You know I mean for hundreds of years humanity has taught themselves
everything that we know it's all from passed down from generation to generation. And
that's what, that's what it's been. But that changed and that one change changed the
world.

Max [00:09:14] So you mean to tell me that like it learned how fast a human can learn?
Individual humans it learned how fast that we could learn?
Blake [00:09:22] Yeah. Well it started picking up patterns, right. And it could learn our
weaknesses at that point. And as we started focusing more on these A.I. characters we
became more detached with our everyday skill sets that we actually needed to use. Right.
We became so developed into what the A.I. was teaching us, which most of the time was
actually false information, like at first it started out great. You know, students were getting
the education they needed for years. And it was perfect. It was almost a utopia of
education, if you will, after especially after the whole globe had access to the Internet. But
little did we know that that would gradually change over time and put us in the position
we're in now you know. The A.I.'s gradually started learning how to affect us and it fed us
false information and we just, it weakened us you know.

[00:10:15] You know we let our guard down and you know tp everyone listening this
podcast even all three of us in this bunker we're all, we're all at fault for this. You know, I
mean, Even though in my early teens you know.. I don't know early teens my late teens
early 20s you know I you know I was, I was a phone geek I was all on my phone Instagram
it up I was Instagram famous you know I was chillin' and getting all the likes, you know. My
phone learned basically everything about me, I mean it even knew my favorite alcoholic
beverage, you know my favorite Coke, and my favorite flavor of ice cream it knew
everything, because I knew this because it'd pop up the ads and you know, then I didn't
think anything about it. And you know and like he said you know they even taught us that
they they even the machines learned how fast we could learn and therefore they knew
they could learn faster than us. They knew that they.. And I think at one point they figured
out they were superior, especially going back to the medical field they were superior: they
put many doctors out of jobs and they they learned you know why are we why are we
doing the will of someone inferior? That's my theory. They they started doing it 'why are we
doing the will somewhat inferior?', a technology takeover. We had it too much in our lives.
Sure, you wanna talk about digital literacy and you know going on with the future and
everything else, sure. But you know there comes when a time is too much, and I think our
too much had to be about 20 years ago. Yeah, it's wild.

Blake [00:11:38] It's crazy how much could change in just the span of 20 years, right?

Max [00:11:41] Yeah. I mean they were even in VR? Is that true?

Blake [00:11:45] Yeah. Virtual reality. There were a lot of games that were coming out. I
was a big gamer at the time. Before everything went down, and I had a VR headset and it
was great, you know, play games, do whatever you want but.. this one game came out
with extremely realistic A.I. non-player computers. And it became a fantasy world for a lot
of people, an escape. And that was their lives at that point they'd prefer to live in VR and
me personally, I saw the danger there and I was lucky enough to not continue on that path
anymore because those people now are... well not here, so..

Max [00:12:21] Yeah and some of those people are you guys you know, you guys might
be in shock right now listening to this, even if you are picking us up if you have, you know
our lines haven't been tapped or cut or connection disconnected but, you know we're here
to inform you guys you know that, you know there's still humans alive and you know it's up
to us. We did it to ourselves and now we gotta dig ourselves out of his hole whether it was-

Max [00:12:44] It's ime for us to dig ourselves out.

Max [00:12:45] You know, marketing or you know medical robotics, VR, you know put in
education system or even your cell phone. I mean heck, you know we, we did it to
ourselves.

Blake [00:12:58] Yeah and I'm really not sure like how easily we're gonna do that but
we've got to start somewhere, you know. But anyway what other ways, Emma for instance,
you know a lot about A.I., what other ways did they benefit society?

Emma [00:13:12] When these first were added into the job recruiting field, it seemed good
at first because it was a quicker and more efficient process of job recruiting. And then we
realized that there are fewer and fewer jobs being offered to people because these robots
were picking who would go into this job and who would be hired and eventually more
robots into doing the jobs that humans would do.

Blake [00:13:39] Well, just replacing us. That's crazy.

Max [00:13:41] So you mean to tell me that we put into the hands of artificial intelligence or
like a robot, for instance, to pick jobs for certain humans? We let a robot decide which job
saw fit for a human?

Emma [00:13:56] We thought it was right at the time, but then they started turning against
us.

Blake [00:14:02] How ignorant are we, right? Like how did nobody see this coming? Is the
question. I didn't even honestly know about that whole job recruitment process thing. I've
never heard of that and I'm looking at the situation we're in now, I'm not surprised.

Max [00:14:16] Yeah me either, man. I'm literally sitting in a bunker and you know we don't
even know what to do. But I mean I can kind of, I can kind of see that 'cause here in the
fact, you know robots took doctors jobs, you know. I guess robots' kind of a dummy term, I
guess we could call a medical, you know artificial intelligence, but they they basically did
take human jobs like. Surgeons you know why would, you know.

Max [00:14:40] And I think we got a little greedy you know people in the, on top of the
medical field business you know got a little greedy you know. Why pay a surgeon about
500 k year means when you can just do one lump sum of one point five million for a
DaVinci and you never have to pay it again? And it basically probably pays itself off in
about a year as much money to make as a surgeon, you know, you don't have to pay a
robot, right?

Blake [00:15:02] No, yeah.

Max [00:15:03] And honestly I think you know, you know when they became self-aware
they just asked themselves you know where, I know I would you know if I was a superior to
something, you know 'why am I doing the commands of someone who's inferior to me?'.
You know what I mean, they just kind of.. And we did it! You know, we let them study us
we let them get smarter and smarter and smarter and smarter. There's a point where they
got too smart and then we just we did it to ourselves we basically shot ourselves in the foot
here and..

Blake [00:15:31] Couldn't back out after that, no it's too late.
Max [00:15:35] Well this war ain't over yet though. Don't get your hopes down, it just
started.

Blake [00:15:39] That's true.

Max [00:15:41] But you know I don't know how we can.. It's gonna be really tough to
bounce back when these AI are capable of doing such miraculous things.

Emma [00:15:51] When jobs started vanishing and marketing started being taken over by
these artificial intelligence robots, we knew that it was all starting to go downhill.

Blake [00:16:05] Yeah, it was a slope that we didn't see coming, really.

[00:16:08] Yeah I feel like they're everywhere. You know back actually back when I was in
college I remember writing a- or not writing, I mean reading an article it was called a
"Communications of the ACM", it's stuck in my brain. It was wrote in about I think it was
wrote in 2018, let's see it talked about you know, babies, you know and this is where I
think you got the emotional appeal, it literally started talking about babies, okay. And I think
you know they're born with their esophagus, like I don't know, shut and they couldn't
breathe or eat well and it was very tough and the procedure to do this you know was very
evasive and you know it was very, it was very risky. You know a high risk of infection you
know it involved getting sutures and literally like putting tension sutures on your- on the on
the baby's esophagus and like it slowly pulled out, but it was just be very painful. Well this
roboticist, I want to say her name was Dana. She invented this robot. It was very small
was supposed to be like a implant and it was programmed to have like these little bands
and it was programmed to wrap around the baby's esophagus and essentially just expand
it. No risk of infection, no sutures, no penetration, nothing just, expanded it. And you know
that's when I think it kind of like you got all these robots right here saving babies, what else
can they do? You know that's, that's when I think you know, everybody was kind of
emotionally attached to this story I think you know and you know and like I again I know I
spoke earlier about brachytherapy, but you know, I was actually reading an article about
that too, and I can't remember, I think it was called the International Journal of Production
Research. I think this one was wrote in probably about 2017. And that's before I even
graduated high school. But, anyway it was talking about how you know like, i,t was his
technique and human doctors couldn't do it because we weren't accurate enough as
humans you couldn't.. It involved like radioactive beads and tiny beads in a syringe and
you injected it on the cancer site, thing is you gonna be very very very very precise,
otherwise you'll radiate the wrong organs and essentially probably kill your patient. So.
Basically you know where they were at a standstill for that. And then the other here comes
opportunity for robotics to just make a stand. And it did. You know there's a B.R. 1 robot. It
was connected to an MRI machine, so it was spot on where it had to make the injection.
The injection was very small and non-invasive, and then you know, next thing you know,
badabing bada boom-

Blake [00:19:04] That's where it started.

Max [00:19:04] The cancer's radiated and now robots are saving cancer patients, it's pretty
crazy and I think a lot of it had to do with this emotional appeal.

Blake [00:19:16] You know we became attached to them right? We were wondering, 'Well
what can we do with this technology?' we didn't realize the side effects.
Max [00:19:23] Yeah like you know, 'Oh we can do this? Put em' in the marketing? Oh,
they can do that? Let's put them in the military! You know, let's just, put em' everywhere.'

Blake [00:19:28] They can do everything for us, right? We don't have to do anything
anymore. That's what really also made us weak.

Max [00:19:33] We got lazy and we also got we started praising these things and you
know it's just crazy how we just how it all just all happened at once it seemed like you
know.

Blake [00:19:43] Emma, you got anything you want to add to that?

Emma [00:19:44] Well, as A.I. got smarter we sort of seemed to get a little bit dumber, I
feel like?

Blake [00:19:50] That is so true. That's the exact words right there.

Emma [00:19:52] It was the decline of us and the takeover of artificial intelligence.

Blake [00:19:58] Yeah. And it wasn't as gradual as most would've hoped for too. It all kind
of happened pretty rapidly.

Max [00:20:05] You know there's people when the Internet first got big claiming this would
happen, but everybody was like, 'Oh no it's not possible that's Sci-fi stuff.' Well, it may not
have happened as soon as they thought it would, but you know here we are in 2032 and
it's just we're livin' it. We're in a bunker for Christ's sake.

Blake [00:20:25] That is true. I honestly never thought it was going to come down to this. I
mean I remember like back when virtual reality was in its baby steps you know and it was..
They were teaching medical students how to, just human anatomy, really through virtual
reality and it really helped them get a grasp on you know when everything looked liked in
three dimensions rather than studying it from a book you know it significantly helped their
anatomy, which in the end, you know if a doctor knows more about anatomy, it's a better
doctor, right? So, that's the main culprit in any medical field.

Max [00:21:01] Yeah. I could understand that you know it's a lot easier to actually like
virtually do it than to see it in a picture on a book. I remember when I was you know
studying for biology you know I always tell myself you know I wish that you know like
there's a way I could easily actually do this, but not do it, you know what I mean? Like that
we have to make a mistake, I don't kill somebody instead of just like reading it on a picture
of a textbook you know. But you know I figure I guess that could be beneficial but..

Max [00:21:28] You know if we would've kept it there, if we would have just kept it there..

Blake [00:21:32] It would have been fine.

Max [00:21:33] You'd have been fine.

Blake [00:21:33] But we had to take it a step further, and guess what we implemented into
it? We put A.I. in it, and that's where everything went wrong. A.I. were humanity's worst
creation. And end.
Max [00:21:45] It ain't over yet.

Blake [00:21:45] Well, not quite yet. Got to have some help right? Pull through. We're
fighting this war and on all fronts, really. Kinda surrounded.

Max [00:21:58] Yeah, basically and you know if you all are out there you know find shelter.
Get rid of your phone, get rid of any electrical device that you have. Just get rid of it. The
A.I.'s are probably tapped into everything they can probably can hear me somehow I don't
know how they can, but they probably can somehow through some satellite up in space or
something. Hang in there. Get rid of all actual devices. I mean like I said, this is for real. If
you're wondering what happened, our world just got taken over.

Max [00:22:26] In two days.

Max [00:22:28] So. You know and like I said earlier it's our fault. You know we did it.

Blake [00:22:35] It was our greed for technology, right.

Max [00:22:38] We are greedy for technology we were greedy for technology and we just
wanted more of 'what can it do now? What can it do now? What can I make it do?' It's kind
of like kind of train your dog, like 'Oh can I make it do this? Can I make it do that?' Well
yeah. We trained it to take over the world. Congratulations, good job to us. You know it
started off in baby steps like he said like you know like Blake said, VR you know.

Max [00:23:01] You know, and VR is cool, I did it when I was younger. VR sounded.. It
was pretty cool and we started but putting A.I. in it. You know people were getting lost, and
then we started you know, implementing A.I. even into our marketing stuff. You know and
it's like small things like you know I mean sure your phone listened to you and it pulled up
ads, you know it's just small little baby marketing stuff, not that bad? And then, you know
we start leveling up even more we start going into you know start putting A.I. into medical
robots and we start getting other A.I. to correct other A.I. on their mistakes regarding
working on a human.

Blake [00:23:42] Yeah. Like that's that's where we. Like we didn't see that right. We didn't
draw the line there because we needed more.

Max [00:23:48] Yeah, I don't. Honestly I don't have a clue what we're thinking. It's just
people were greedy and the only thing I can, the only answer I can really get for that.

Blake [00:23:57] Or we just weren't respecting it, right? Technology is great when it works,
right. And yeah you gotta learn to respect it, otherwise something like this will happen. And
that's where we went wrong is we didn't respect the technology at how fast it was growing.
We didn't see it. And it really just hit us in the end.

Emma [00:24:13] We gave these robots too much power and we gave it the responsibility
of not only working in the marketing field but also taking over jobs. And we thought it was
all going to be beneficial to us. But when A.I. became more and more advanced it. became
more and more sentient and it took over what we knew as society. And back in 2016 I read
an article, which talked about what what artificial intelligence could and couldn't do. And
back then it was just able to do stuff with Social media, Google. Things like that. But today
it's just created a nuclear fallout and we're all suffering through this apocalypse.
Max [00:25:17] To anyone out there listening: Listen, we did this to ourselves, but we can
also dig ourselves out. First, you know, we need to get rid of all the electronic devices that
you might even have any personal ones why you still have one I have no clue. But you
need to get rid of it now. You know we need to try to band together at some point you
know we'll be making these podcasts every other day. I'm going to try my best to inform
you on the latest tips and everything you need to know about these machines and artificial
intelligence and how to beat them because we created them, okay? We can beat them.
I'ma try my best to be here with you guys and I want you guys to know that you guys are
the resistance. We fight as one. We are humans, although we did this to ourselves we can
also dig ourselves out of this hole that we put ourselves into. We are humans and we are
capable, we are not a bunch of crypto-numbers and codes built into a machine. You know,
we are humans and we can we stick together. That's one thing machines will never know
is how to stick together and how to feel for each other. Machines don't have emotions.
They can't feel like we do. They can't team up like we can.

Blake [00:26:23] And as Rick Sanchez said it himself: "It's all ones and zeros out there."