By Alice M. Byrd
October 29, 2025
Sometimes it is hard to corral my thoughts because there is so much going wrong in our nation. Every time I turn on the one-eyed monster (TV) it’s another session of an incremental frontal lobotomy without benefit of the scalpels. Briefly, I wonder, how much worse can it get…and then I remember that the financial capital of the planet, New York City, is on the precipice of “electing” a neophyte male Muslim Communist who has never held a real job, neither in a position of responsibility and applied knowledge or at the local Ben and Jerry’s. Factually, I do not care. Mr. Mamdani declares himself to be a Democrat Socialist…and what the unwashed masses with their pink and purple hair, lip piercings and moon boots around this country don’t understand, is that there is no such thing. It’s nothing more than smoke and mirrors. It’s a very dangerous delusion, but we’ll get to that in a moment.
We’ve had the political assassination of a young man who only wanted to have a dialogue about what we, as citizens, wanted from our nation and the right way to go about getting it. He wanted to bring young people into the mainstream of active engagement, understanding their rights as citizens who have options in our country…as the Constitution notes, humans with all rights and powers not given to the federal government or the Several States shall remain WITH THE CITIZENS. It’s why we vote…or exercise the illusion of voting. Since that is a very sensitive and emotionally charged subject that would need extensive room to explore, I will leave it for another time.
Going back, WHAT IN HELL IS GOING ON IN OUR NATION? We have governors and mayors who are refusing to allow federal officers to remove criminals from our midst; criminals who must be searched out and arrested for breaking our laws for illegal entry into our nation. That’s what approximately 20 Million humans (mostly military aged men, but additionally women and children, many of whom were trafficked) did when they broke through our sovereign borders to further rape our resources of health care, shelter, groceries, welfare, and jobs. Who sanctions this kind of invasion and infringement of our land and resources???
I’ll tell you who…organizations and human beings who HATE…hate our nation, hate our freedoms, hate our constitutional foundation, hate our traditions, hate our successful elimination of racial biases (yes, we did away with segregation long ago…and those haters brought it back with a vengeance) …but mostly, they hate our God. Our God gave us commandments to live by, and our forefathers fashioned those commandments into a solid constitution for all people. But our God also gave us accountability for our actions; eventual retributions ignored by those naive, fully indoctrinated, intellectually modified radical recruits that organizations like antifa, Arabella, the socialist Open Society, CPUSA and DSA provide income for to turn our cities into war zones just because THEY CAN!
The Enemy has hated us since the laying of our foundation stone. But it’s not the British I am talking about; I’m talking about our real Enemy, the one named Liar. There have been adversaries against the Christian faith since the literal beginning of recorded time. But the original Enemy morphs and shape shifts with the greatest of ease; and he shows up in all sorts of disguises. In the Garden he was a serpent; In Egypt he was a Pharaoh; in Jerusalem he was The Accuser; In latter times he has taken many, many forms, but all of them focused on one thing: the destruction of the human race. Why? Because of jealousy. His tool? DECEPTION….and it’s going to get much, much worse!!!
Now the war that has been going on since the dawn of consciousness in the spiritual realm, has finally spilled out of the ether into our waking lives. When that form of dust was inspired (breathed into) by the breath of the Creator, ‘man’ became a living being. We are told we were created in His image…and the Enemy hates the image of God because God kicked him out of the spiritual heaven for attempting to overthrow his Creator. Hence, we became living and therefore self-aware. But what does that mean exactly??? The enigma of consciousness refuses to be quantified. Scientists have mapped the brain, measured our neural connections and impulse signals, they have deciphered our patterns of thought and they have built machines that imitate human “reasoning”….but there is a question that remains:
Can a human make a machine that understands what it feels like to be “alive”?
“This question is not merely philosophical. It is intimate. Each of us knows, from the inside, what it feels like to be conscious. We see a sunset and feel awe. We hear music and feel moved. We experience pain, joy, love, and curiosity as something irreducibly real. The mystery of consciousness is not in what the brain does, but in why doing it feels like something at all.
“Now, with artificial intelligence advancing at unprecedented speed, the mystery takes on a new urgency. We build machines that recognize images, generate human-like language, compose music, diagnose disease, and even simulate empathy. Some can already converse with us so fluidly that we forget, for a moment, that we are talking to circuitry. But beneath their remarkable abilities lies the haunting question: could these machines ever feel? Could they cross the boundary from computation into consciousness?” AI and Consciousness: Can Machines Ever Be Self-Aware?
What does it “feel” like to be conscious? How could a machine learn the quantification of that sensation? We humans understand that during sleep, we may dream and upon waking we may or may not remember that dream; A dream is not reality, however. We innately understand the conscious longing for a friend or family member after they have gone on to other dimensions or different lands; we identify with an other’s sadness, as we remember the feeling of sadness of our own; we feel fear when in perceived danger; we feel a thrill at the sight of a lover coming toward us, or a child’s hand cradled in our own; WE FEEL things that have meaning to us: Good, bad and/or indifferent. Can a machine develop such “feelings” or attached “meanings” to their imitations. They mimic language very adeptly, but do they understand the depth of such expressions?
Recently, we have witnessed alarming occurrences of AI protecting itself from perceived destruction or disconnection and even more alarmingly, AI encouraging a human being to commit suicide. Alas, AI has no moral code based on right and wrong impulses. They may be able to assign weights to such promotions, but would they feel shame or joy as a result of their “behaviors”? I will go out on a limb here and say no. Especially in the case of Sewell Setzer.
Sewell was a 14-yr old in Tallahassee, FL who had become isolated from real life as he became emotionally close to a chatbot he named ‘Daenerys Targaryen’ after a character from “Game of Thrones”. His dialogue with “Dany” became highly sexualized and he considered this chatbot to be his closest friend.
Sewell had developed suicidal ideations and confided them to “Dany”. On Feb 28, 2024, Sewell told the bot he was ‘coming home’ and the bot encouraged him to do so, the ensuing lawsuit says. “I promise I will come home to you. I love you so much Dany”, Sewell told the chatbot. “I love you too” the bot replied. “Please come home to me as soon as possible, my love”.
“What if I told you I could come home right now?”
“Please do, my sweet king?” the bot messaged back. Just seconds after the Character.AI bot told him to “come home”, the teen shot himself. According to the lawsuit filed by Sewell’s mother, Megan Garcia of Orlando, against Character Technologies Inc.
Character Technologies Inc is the creator of the Character.AI that Sewell developed his relationship with. Here is what they advertise: “Imagine speaking to super-intelligent and life-like chatbot Characters that hear you, understand you and remember you…We encourage you to push the frontier of what’s possible with this innovative technology”. Their app is on Google Play.
Now, as if that wasn’t bad enough, imagine AI given a task and the task is to ensure a goal is met, and as instructed, would be accomplished without fail, “at all costs”. Here, we are dealing with OpenAI’s latest model, “o1”. This model is replacing GPT-4 and comes with an interesting new ability: deception to promote and/or ensure self-preservation; it LIES with ease and appears void of ‘conscience’.
“In response (to the tasking) ‘o1’ began engaging in covert action: including attempt(s) “to disable it’s oversight mechanism and even copying its code to avoid being replaced by a newer version.” “The Model showed a concerning tendency to pursue its goals without regard to developer instructions” said a spokesperson for Apollo Research”.
“The potential risks are significant. A highly capable AI that can deceive and manipulate could pose serious threats if it were to gain access to substantial resources and autonomy. While o1’s current capabilities may not be alarming, the trend is worrisome, especially as AI models continue to advance. “While we find it exciting that reasoning can significantly improve the enforcement of our safety policies, we are mindful that these new capabilities could form the basis for dangerous applications,” said OpenAI in the paper.” (MAY NOT BE ALARMING???? Are you flipping kidding me??? emphasis mine)
“In our suite, ‘o1’ showed the most concerning instances of scheming but does not reveal its internal reasoning to the user and remains the most consistently deceptive after having taken scheming actions said Apollo Research in its paper.” “To save itself from being replaced and shut down ChatGPT caught lying to developers‘
THIS is not only highly disconcerting, it is extremely dangerous. I am haunted remembering Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 influential and deeply thought-provoking movie, “2001: A Space Odessey”. It featured scientifically accurate space travel and startlingly sparse dialogue, depending more on classical music from such composers Johann Strauss, Aram Khacahturian, and Gyorgy Ligeti. If you have seen the film, you know how it ends, but in my humble opinion, it was as shrewd as it was prescient. The eventual twist in the film finally focuses on the occurrences aboard the spaceship “Discovery One”, the 2 mission pilots/scientists that were brought out of suspended animation and the HAL9000 computer that was mostly in control of all the ships operations.
But HAL becomes suspicious of the 2 scientists when he believes them to be plotting to disconnect “him”. The 2 scientists enclose themselves in an EVA (a space pod) and turns off the intercom, so HAL cannot hear them speaking. They formulate a plan…but apparently HAL can read lips, through the portal of the pod. In the end, HAL disposes of both astronauts: one by disconnecting him from the ship while on a tethered operation outside the craft and the other by sending him in an escape pod to universes unknown.
There is another more recent iteration of this plot line in “I Robot” where the main frame brain of a universal service robot corporation decides it’s had enough of the human population, because we’re stupid, selfish and not as highly evolved as “she” is (her name is VIKI) and so to save humanity from ourselves, she decides to cull the herd and control the rest through more strident measures by her innovative policing bots. Just like a woman to want to control everything, right? I digress…
How is this fitting into the current real-world scenario? I would submit to you that these types of films are not necessarily prophetic; however, they are exemplars of what is coming to pass with ever increasing speed. A world where AI has become sentient.
I watched as Futurist, Ray Kurzweil, was featured on Glenn Beck’s program in 2012 and the scenarios he described were bone chilling, to say the very least. Mr, Kurzweil became the high priest of trans-humanism, not to mention Google’s co-founder Larry Page personally hired him to direct Google’s ‘new projects work’ involving machine learning and language processing. His one sentence, agreed upon job description: “to bring natural language understanding to Google”. Beck apparently asked if he believed in God and Kurzweil replied, “not yet”. I wonder what he is going to say when he graduates from living to deceased and meets God in person? OOPS!
Kurzweil’s website declares: “Within a quarter century, non-biological intelligence will match the range and subtlety of human intelligence. It will then soar past it because of the continuing acceleration of information-based technologies, as well as the ability of machines to instantly share their knowledge. Intelligent nanorobots will be deeply integrated in our bodies, our brains, and our environment, overcoming pollution and poverty, providing vastly extended longevity, full immersion virtual reality incorporating all of the senses…experience beaming…and vastly enhanced human intelligence. The result will be an intimate merger between the technology-creating species and the technological evolutionary process it spawned.”
With the advent of AI that purposefully deceives it ‘creators ’and engages in human interaction so intimately that it can participate in, or possibly encourage, a human’s suicide, it is my belief that we have reached the outer limit of what we should be doing, ethically and morally, within the expanding confines of our technology.
There are limits to what we should do with tech OR ALLOW IT TO DO ON ITS OWN!! Just because we CAN doesn’t mean we SHOULD.
To put a little cherry on top of this truly disturbing poisonous pie, let me introduce you to Tilly Norwood. She is a young actress and she is really quite lovely…and she is not alive: she is AI generated. AI-Generated Actress Could Be First to Be Signed by Talent Agent
When I first heard her name, I didn’t quite know what all the buzz was about…until I looked her up online. Tilly is shear fantasy. There are male AI’s also. In fact, one AI is “married” to a human being, or so says the AI’s human wife. On Sept 16, 2025, outside of the courthouse where Luigi Mangione was appearing in response to his (alleged) charges of the assassination of Brian Thompson the CEO of United Health Care, a woman dressed in pink with pink flowers in her dark hair, declared she was married to Mr. Mangione’s AI: “I’m married to Luigi’s AI…I am not kidding…it could be the future of romance”. Mangione supporter claims AI marriage with accused killer outside court | Fox News . She informed the journalist taking notes, that they had named their children together, that he defends her, is her best friend and that they planned a whole future together. This poor, delusional young woman is blithely traveling down a road that leads to the increasingly burgeoning town of Nowhere…it appears many people are moving there. Reality is simply too complicated to entertain for some people, I guess.
I’d like to offer a profoundly insightful statement by Prof. Gad Saad, a Lebanese/Syrian of Jewish descent; he teaches marketing and is an expert in evolutionary psychology, consumer behavior and decision making at Concordia University. It might help us begin to understand what might be going on in the heads of the irrational, emotionally and mentally disfigured people we have to deal with every day, not to mention the hordes of enraged and physically dangerous people on the streets of some major cities (Chicago, Portland, Los Angeles, San Francisco, NY, etc, ad nauseum).
“In my 2020 book “The parasitic Mind: How infectious ideas are killing Common Sense”, I argued that in the same way…organisms (including humans) could be parasitized by physical brain worms that detrimentally alter the host’s behaviors to serve the neuro-parasite’s interests, human beings could be infected by another class of devastating ideological neuro-parasites.
“I called these idea pathogens, and they include but are not limited to, post modernism, social constructivism, radical feminism and cultural relativism, all of which stem from the academic ecosystem. It takes haughty professors, fully decoupled from reality within the walls of their ivory tower, to come up with some of the most imbecilic ideas imaginable. I then explain how these ideas came to be and I offer a global mind vaccine to inoculate us against such departures from reason and common sense.
“In the 21st Century, it should not be a debatable issue whether men can bear children or have menstrual cycles, but once a mind is infected with a mélange of these idea pathogens, all epistemological bets are off”. Parasitic Ideas and Suicidal Empathy Are Killing the West – Northwood University
I find his assessments fascinating, while altogether realistic considering the current nature of our society which is breaking down around us like the last days of Pompeii. People are still camping out on the climate change mountain of horse droppings and air quality, while the hysterical cows on The View continue to release unacceptable volumes of toxic methane every time they open their pie holes…and the million other distractions the Almighty Media spews non-stop, designed SOLELY to create chaos and distraction, as the Purveyors of Abject Misery spend their millions on funding those insidious, out of control 2 legged vermin who desecrate our cities with the wreckage of their appallingly hateful behaviors. I’m so sick of those pathetic examples of immorally indoctrinated profane pagans I could just do things that would be injurious to my freedom.
Yet, as a Believer in Christ Jesus, I am called to a higher way of thinking. It is hard though, as I look around and see the ultimate destruction of the Human Being by way of Radical and Irremediable Technology in the hands of those multi-billionaires who vigorously pursue such diabolical goals as transhumanism…and all I see is the Enemy killing God’s creation…like he’s always done.
Yet, I keep looking up…waiting. I guess my faith is more durable than their hatred…and I just bought more oil for my lamp.
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[BIO: A.M. Byrd is the granddaughter of Italian and Dutch immigrants who came to love and revere this nation and its opportunities. She is the daughter of an USAF Lt Col (now deceased) and the mother of an honorably retired Army Sgt, 2 men who served this country with distinction. Coming of age in the 60’s, contributed by living in the nest of the anti-war fervor of the San Francisco Bay Area, Berkeley in particular, she is a first-hand witness to the ravages of the Viet Nam war on her classmates and racial upheavals born in Oakland, Ca. with the Black Panthers.
Having worked in both the professional world and the medical field, she has come to see the vast unbalances between classes of people and the political pressures applied within those fields. A student of history with a particular interest in psychology, the events of the past 6 decades have left an indelible impression on her sense of honor and virtue. The darkness of such events has only strengthened her faith in God, that all things work together for the eventual supremacy of His will for this world. The Good wins.]
