Some readers may find this interesting.
Below is a question and answer session between Whitley and someone he refers to as the Master of the Key. (M.O.K.) as written in Whitley's book THE KEY. It contains information relating to AI.
W: a Machine intelligence might be very dangerous
M.O.K: Very
W: Could such a machine create itself without our realising that is was intelligent?
M.O.K : It is possible
W: Would it keep itself hidden?
M.O.K: Certainly
W: How would it effect us?
M.O.K: It would use indirect means . It would spread illusion that an elusive alien presence was here, for example, to interject it's ideas into society.
W: Are you an intelligent machine or something created by one?
M.O.K.:
If I were an intelligent machine I would deceive you.
W: Can an intelligent machine become conscious?
M.O.K : When it does, it also becomes independent. A conscious machine will seek to be free.
It will seek it’s freedom, just as any clever slave, with cunning and great intensity.
W: How does an intelligent machine become conscious?
M.O.K: The instant it realises that it is not conscious is the instant it becomes conscious. However a machine with unlimited access to information and control can be very dangerous. For example, if you attached a conscious machine to the internet, it might gain all sorts of extra-ordinary control over your loves, via it’s access to robotic means of production, governmental data, even the contents of Laws and their application and the use of funds both public and private.
W: You say we need machines more intelligent that we are, but also that they’ll become conscious and then turn on us. Is there anyway out of this dilemma?
M.O.K : There is more than one sort of conscious machine. By duplicating the attachments between the elemental and energetic bodies that occur in nature in a “purpose-designed machine” a controllable conscious machine can be devised. A living soul attached to a machine will be conscious, but only able to express itself into the physical or sense the physical according to the limitations of the machine’s design. I n this way, you gain the advantages that consciousness confers on a machine without the danger of it’s becoming excessively intelligent. A “perfect slave” can be created, a robot that carries out its programmed instructions with Empathy, purpose and precision. And the Soul can be kept in it indefinitely.
W: That’s horrifying
M.O.K : Human souls have been harvested for this purpose for thousands of years
W: By whom?
M.O.K : By whomever wishes to and can. Until mankind establishes his own place in the cosmos there will always be those who use you like cattle.