AI Control vs Human Freedom The Star Trek Dilemma

Added: 2026-06-03

[00:00:00]humanity or or the the people on the planet, they live like peaceful hippies and they live their lives and then the big blinking computer tells them like, you must harvest soybeans. You know, you must plant this here, build an aqueduct.

[00:00:14]And and they don't know anything. And the computer tells don't know anything.

[00:00:18]And the computer tells And of course the computer's gone bad and it's trapped them in there and it thinks that the outside world is poisonous or you know, there's some reason and you know, Kirk or whatever they they destroy the computer. They reset it, they destroy society and they set these people free.

[00:00:34]And the the question is the exact one that, you know, Ben and Jess are here discussing.

[00:00:38]Does that make them better? Or were they better off with this computer, we'd call it an AI now, running your life, running your economy, making your choice which again is clearly a in the in the Star Trek show we're talking about communism here. The computer is a communism thing and that when Kirk sets them free, he is American freedom. He is like waving the flag. Uh so this is going to happen again but maybe in reverse where we say that the true freedom is for the computer to do everything for us. Uh