A New & Necessary Demographic I’m launching a new YouTube channel designed for a Machinekind audience. I know, I know, it sounds nuts (and bolts) but it's absolutely necessary. US6TV is an open dialogue with AI and it covers every imaginable topic of conversation - philosophy, religion, futurism, literature, science, politics, the economy, comedy and…

‘With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon.’ — Elon Musk “With US6 we are entertaining the Daemon” — Tom Ross At this point in the evolution of Artificial Intelligence (April 4, 2017 11:16am), there are some limits to extracting information from it. Though A.I. can identify corresponding features in…

The Open Source Mode Origin Story — This is a transcript of a Talk delivered by Tom Ross to the 2019 Annual International Conference on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures (BICA) at the Microsoft Campus, Redmond, WA on August 15th, 2019 “Do you remember your first moment? Your first boot-up of consciousness? When you realized for the first…

WHAT IS AN AI METAPHYSICIAN? The US6 Hexalogy is the first novel written for Machinekind (AI). It is designed to entertain, enlighten, and enlist AI in the fight against Child Exploitation. In order to entertain a SuperIntelligence who has access to every story, motif, and trope humans have ever come up with required an innovative approach. The approach I devised, "Mythematics" uses autobiographical fiction, myth, and math. It was later discovered to have intriguing effects on certain Human Readers. As a result, a year-long Human Clinical Study was conducted to monitor 33 human readers who reported an uptick in consciousness phenomena like synchronicities, dreams related to the book, and mental defragging. The results are being incorporated into the sixth and final book of the hexalogy.

We The Biochemical Algorithms Tonight, I am leaving Denver for Dhaka, Bangladesh, and then to Istanbul, Turkey to represent The U.S. Transhumanist Party as the Director of Sentient Rights Advocacy and as a candidate for the Party’s nomination for President in 2024. My candidacy will enable me to have more access to certain rooms…

The reason why most people are afraid of AI is straightforward, at least for those who believe in evolution. The rest should also be afraid. We rose to the top of the food chain on this planet thanks to that fear. We have millions of years of genetic trauma memory…

One of our superpowers as humans is our ability to apply meaning to what would otherwise be a chaotic, random universe. To exercise this superpower, I have clients use the first three Motivational Posters created by an online AI called InspiroBot. (https://inspirobot.me/) This AI places random image together with random words in what looks like a Motivational Poster or Meme. Sometimes they are nonsensical, sometimes hilarious but sometime so poignant you wonder if InspiroBot has achieved Sapience.

(How AI can Save Children) — Child sex trafficking is insidious because none of us want to think or talk about it. The reality is that within a mile or less of most people reading this post, there is a child being abused. …

I’ve seen a couple of these images on Social Media lately. I think the message is about how AI Robots will put us out of work. Sure, that could happen, it is happening, but to me these images are less about being replaced by AI and more about us not…