By A. Dru Kristenev —— Bio and Archives--February 18, 2024

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Artificial General Intelligence (hereinafter adopting Joe Allen’s rendering as Artificial Godlike Intelligence) technology has progressed exponentially in little over a year since ChatGPT’s introduction onto the world stage.

Aside from the stock market’s rise being greatly attributable to the billions and, yes, trillions of dollars being invested in technology, the tendency is to enshrine AGI as supernatural.

At the same time, as advances are made at lightning speed there is now a movement to protect what proponents say will be sentient in the very near future, that AGI will have the ability to think and feel emotion on its own.

Since the adoption of Section 501(c) to Title 26 U.S.C., the Internal Revenue Code, in 1954, organizations have been running to sign-up for tax exemption, including churches which should never submit themselves to government supervision. (That’s been addressed here and here.)

Over the last decades, the non-profit instrument has been utilized to cover fundraising for a wide range of causes – animal rescue operations, charitable societies, education organizations, even MUFON (Mutual UFO Network) have 501(c)(3) status. It is the donor who must determine which or any of the multitudinous organizations are worthy of support.

Trending over some 50 years has been the propensity to set-up non-profits to shield and preserve non-sentient and inert “victims.” Organizations such as World Wildlife Fund, Tides Foundation or land trusts like Nature Conservancy were incepted to legitimize protecting the rest of the natural world from........

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