Keep Calm Babylon is Burning
CogX, the Digital Industrial Complex and the banality of evil. Accenture UK rallies the WEF troops for the next phase of global subjugation.
So I took the plunge and attended CogX for a few hours on Wednesday afternoon: the self-proclaimed ‘World’s biggest festival of AI and transformational change’.
Wednesday was the second day of the show and, having been quite rude about their prospects earlier in the week, it turned out the event was quite busy.
Apparently there is an audience for this stuff.
Although it’s less clear how many attendees spent beyond the free ticket for access to the main arena. I managed to sneak round the corner and catch 30 seconds of some anonymous tech exec gushing about a recent ‘hackathon’ in the ‘metaverse’ (yawn) before being politely ushered out by some officious types in black suits. But I didn’t get a chance to look at audience numbers, so your guess is as good as mine.
Either way, there is clearly a whole ecosystem here: corporates, governments, academia, startups and investors from all around the world.
Everything you need to drive a system-wide transformation.
What I call the ‘Digital Industrial Complex’.
All conveniently placed in a shed on a piece of wasteland by the Thames.
Ominous, isn’t it?
Now I won’t lie, some of this technology could be useful. Vaionex, for example, have created an ‘AI-powered legal solution’ which looks like it could cause a headache for the legal profession. Maybe not such a bad thing.
But, as regular readers will know, I view AI-driven drug discovery as extraordinarily dangerous, unnecessary and wide open to abuse. I don’t know who Arachne are, but I don’t think they should be doing what they’re doing. This entire paradigm needs to be thrown out as quickly as possible IMHO.
From a geopolitical perspective, I was surprised by the presence of Taiwan’s National Applied Research Labs (NAR Labs). It was the only nationally-aligned exhibitor, which felt incongruous given the close relationship WEF and other global players pushing AI have with the CCP.
I also felt a bit sad watching the creative agency and film production types (who I used to work alongside) slowly realising their bread and butter has been destroyed by generative tools like CogX headline sponsor, Stability.ai.
For many ‘AI native’ organisations creativity and, by extension of that, humanity itself, is often seen as surplus to requirements. A fellow attendee, looking glum and dejected in the smoking area, put it succinctly: ‘It’s all about the bloody machines.’
Indeed brother, and no room for much else.
I left CogX with two overriding impressions:
1. ‘AI is the answer, I don’t care about the question.’
Or that’s the message we’re being sold right now. “They”, assuming there is one, are absolutely obsessed with this new tech and have plans to put it literally everywhere.
Disengage friends, it’s not going to end well.
We need each other, not more machines.
2. Evil is so banal
The overseers of the global slave system came together in London to progress their evil plans for the future of humanity. And it’s little more than a middle-management away day of new carpets, free glacier mints, bad coffee, air-conditioning and business-to-business marketing materials.
A lot of it was extraordinarily dull.
More than 90 minutes in there and I would have fallen asleep.
I did get a hat though, which is quite cool.
And on the way back home I saw a sailing boat going down the Thames.
Why don’t we all go live by the river?
That would be fun.
Give all this AI bollocks a miss.
Anyway.
Final word goes to Accenture
World Economic Forum Strategic Partner, Accenture, hosted a glitzy meeting last week for UK Partners at The Roundhouse in Camden.
That’s 759 people earning an average of nearly £1m a year being briefed on the next Phase of the WEF plan for your total subjugation.
Don’t worry, most of them are indoctrinated morons who haven’t got a clue what they’re doing.
But the whole charade is so grotesque at this point I really just can’t wait for it to be over.
Love from London.
Rubin
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Thank you Ben for being our under cover agent and keeping us posted about our their boring but wicked thousand year Reich. But thankfully, as you always say, we can build our own!
Thanks Ben and yuck! Arachne was a lady transformed into a spider. Doesn't sound at all good to me.
As you so nicely put it "We need each other, not more machines."