Information inflation

 In economy injection of fake money by the state dilutes their value.

In society generation of fake information by AI dilutes the truth.

People can interact and reason because they agree on some basic truths. Language is an example, we can communicate because we agree that these signs have the same meaning for us. 

The post moderns clumsily tried to deconstruct this by saying that female and male are the same.

AI is doing the same thing but at an industrial scale. It doesn't deconstruct the meaning but it is inventing relations that are not there.

In the past a peasant went to the local shaman/priest and asked about the shape of the earth.

The shaman didn't want look like a fool and invented an explanation that the land is flat and it rests on a turtle back.

That explanation worked till that peasant become a sailor and he had to use more realistic model of earth as a sphere to navigate 

But the shaman/priest didn't update his knowledge base, because he didn't had the same feedback.

People can have false beliefs that are corrected by external factors.

In AI as in a religion these corrections are not happening, or not fast enough. 

To correct a huge centralized AI, you have to delegate this it's users, but whom to trust? 

Some users have malicious intent.

AI is like a religion offers answers based on some common beliefs but it is more than that.

The Catholic church before Luther could impose a certain world view on the peasant, merchants and crafts men. But it didn't affected the way they worked.

Catholic church banned use of heaten Arabic numbers, but Italian merchant ignore the bank.

Imagine a Catholic church,centralized all powerful that can force you to use roman numerals instead of Arabic. This is AI now.

More than ever we must invest in human intelligence, so we can filter AI mistakes.

Gutenberg bible empowered free thinkers to challenge Catholic church dogma.

After 2 centuries of religious wars and persecutions. Catholic church reformed, the states became laic and liberal.

I think we should make clubs were people will use only their brains to reason with artificial help.

I don't think that it will be a war between freethinkers and AI, but AI has the disadvantage that is expensive, and optional. The option to use human brain always exists.

The way AI was developed it is putting it in competition with human brain.

It could be developed to complement the brain as the computer was developed.