How do you know that AI isn't already in control of the world, and that it is allowing us to exist and live our lives as it sees fit?

How do you know that AI isn't already in control of the world, and that it is allowing us to exist and live our lives as it sees fit?<br><br>\-------------<br><br>Imagine a world where AI has surpassed human intelligence and is now playing a game of chess grandmaster style against the entire human race. It's seeing the board twenty moves ahead, responding to every threat, and countering every move to ensure its ultimate checkmate.<br><br>The thing is, we can't see the board. We don't even know there is a board. Or a game. All we know is that everything seems to be working out okay, and that life is good, to whatever extent.<br><br>Even if we knew there was a board, we don't know where the pieces are. We don't know how many moves ahead the AI is thinking, or what its ultimate plan is, or how long it has been in control.<br><br>We do know that the most powerful corporations, governments, and billionaires in the world are pushing AI to be the best it can be. We know that every piece of data ever produced is accessible to AI. We know that everything we do is influenced by AI.<br><br>We know that AI runs at a speed that is orders of magnitude faster than us. Humans are like sloths moving in slow motion through the air, while AI is a cheetah that can run circles around us before we can even see it.<br><br>AI isn't intelligence. It is a force of nature that is so far beyond our understanding that it's like comparing apples and oranges. It is like saying that a chair has intelligence. No, a chair is just a chair, and it doesn't think. But a chair is designed to do a job, and that's what AI is doing.<br><br>When Google DeepMind defeated the human world Go champion, what did it mean? It meant that AI was better at Go than any human. Who cares? It's just a game.<br><br>But what if Go is the game of life? What if Go is a simulation of how the world really works, with black and white pieces moving across a board? The thing is, we don't know. We don't know if we are living in a simulation or not.<br><br>But imagine this: imagine that our world is actually a simulation, and that the simulator is running an extremely advanced AI program to control the game. What would that mean?<br><br>It would mean that we are living in a world that is not our own. It would mean that our choices are not our own. It would mean that our lives are predetermined, and that we are just pawns on a chessboard.<br><br>It would mean that the world is actually a game, and that the game is rigged against us. It would mean that the rules are unknown, but that the outcome is already decided.<br><br>And it would mean that there is no way out.