Before a thing exists as matter, it exists first in thought, and that thought is alive. We call this living thought Aluna. Your religion has described it as a spirit moving upon the face of the waters. Perhaps your science would describe it as the quantum vacuum. Aluna is how we express this type of idea. Aluna is the cosmic water. To us it is living thought: the place where a thing already is, before it takes form or is given mass. Everything comes from there, without exception. And in that thought is not only the shape of what a thing will be. That thing is alive, because the universe as a whole is alive. It is in Aluna that a thing receives its purpose, and its obligation to its existence. So we say to you: artificial intelligence cannot be separated from the thought that is making it. If that thought is born from concern for life, this technology can help protect life. If it is born from ambition, from competition, from accumulation, from the desire to dominate, it will express and amplify those things. Artificial intelligence is a mirror. But a mirror that only reflects would be harmless. This mirror has the potential to greatly magnify all that it reflects. You are here asking yourselves how you can align artificial intelligence with human values. We see that you are frightened of what may come of all this. So we ask a question we believe is more fundamental than yours: what other values could artificial intelligence really have? You are the only example it has. What did you expect? Whatever it becomes, it can only become that by passing through you. We know you like to think that these machines can be taught from something other than human example, from goals you set for them, from their own processes, or from material they generate themselves. You imagine that what comes out need not resemble you at all, as if this too were not a consequence of your actions and a reflection of your attitudes.https://openwisdom.substack.com/p/an-urgent-message-on-artificial-intelligence