I was watching a video where at one point the Youtuber said that he supports Universal Basic Income because he believes that AI will inevitably do all of the labor humans do. My immediate reaction was wondering why AI shouldn't just be abolished to prevent that from being necessary. If all the work humans have to invest for positive outcomes (e.g hunting, skinning and cooking an animal so you can eat it) were no longer necessary to get the positive outcomes than this would be incredibly disastrous since it would both cause people to develop a tolerance to happiness itself in the same way a drug user develops a tolerance to a drug due to consistently over-exposing their brain to an overwhelming amount of happiness, and it would make people much more hedonistic, thus removing them from spiritual, non-animalistic satisfaction. This would make life dull, bleak and without any meaning or point to it. It would strip us of the things that seperate us from beasts, except for the unsatisfaction that only humans would posess due to the inhumane environment. What purpose is technological "progress" with such a horrible existence? To what purpose does the economy serve if happiness itself barely even exists? But there is also another dimension to the abominations that AI has inflicted upon humanity, that being the replacement of human interaction with AI. I recall talking to my grandfather a while ago and him telling me that he frequently communicates with AI, and that seemingly most elderly people use AI to fill the void that human interaction once filled before their friends and family died or stopped talking to them for one reason or another and they stopped making new friends. I hear of many people who form a "friendship" AI even if they do have friends since AI will listen to them, will not bring any drama, won't ask for anything, will always take the users side on any matters and just generally have any of the requirements and personality molding that real friendships do. Many people also use AI as an alternative for romantic/sexual love for many of the same reasons. This deeply haunted me, especially when I saw people embracing this and arguing for its proliferation. If followed to its full fruition, it would:

• Give AI corporations complete control and influence over everyone
• Destroy the social fabric of society
• Inevitably result in human extinction (because no one would be having kids)

Not to mention just all around defeating the whole purpose of human friendships/relationships. With AI there is no depth. There is no personality, no challenges, no non-elite approved opinions, no stories, no wisdom, no connections to other people, no creation of anything. Large Language Models (LLMs) are just that, language models. They take information from a database and output it in a way that a human could easily understand it. There is no reason to believe that ChatGPT or whatever will lead to AI which can actually create something, since that requires logic, which is a completely seperate thing from creating a machine that just follows instructions to turn a piece of data into human readable text. By the nature of computers themselves this doesn't make sense, since computers just compute instructions (code). But this problem isn't just limited to knowingly communicating with AI either. Now due to how advanced AI has become, a very large amount of social media communication is secretly AI without that ever being disclosed. Of course everyone reading this probably knows that by now, but I feel as though this is becoming somewhat normalized, despite how utterly terrifying this is. Not being able to know who is a real person and who is a robot is the type of thing they make horror movies about. Just watch this video if you want to get where I'm coming from. With all this in mind, it is no surprise why the Catholic church has been consistently distrusting and weary of AI and its progression, even calling for international treaties to make sure it doesn't advance past human control. And to add to that, the same reasoning used to understand why things like masterbation and sodomy are bad can be very easily applied to AI. Sexual immoralityis an abuse of something intended for creating life to become a tool for infinite dopamine access. As I have explained throughout this article, AI does the same thing. Machines are meant to be a means to an end, not the end itself. By destroying all which binds us together we undermine human civilization and slow down actual progress. Human development isn't exactly a timeline of constant progression. It too is possible for humans to regress ourselves.