Moral Intelligence, Ecocide and Machine Intelligence, or what and who disrupt Homo sapiens

Moral Intelligence, Ecocide and Machine Intelligence, or what and who disrupt Homo sapiens

For last 10-15 years, I have been advancing the agenda of smart and sustainable world (I-World Project), provided that climate change and global intelligence degradation are major existential threats to the world.

As the key elements of the future i-world projects, we offered the Chinese government, the European Commission, the Russian government and the American government to adopt the smart/green China, the green/smart Europe, the smart/green Russia, and the smart/green America programs, respectively, how this was possible for an independent researcher.

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In the brief article, I share my concerns why the smart and sustainable future development strategies have been mostly degraded or commercialized, like as

  • the Chinese BRI development strategy "to build connectivity and co-operation across six main economic corridors encompassing China and: Mongolia and Russia; Eurasian countries; Central and West Asia; Pakistan; other countries of the Indian sub-continent; and Indochina"
  • the EU Green Deal, no net emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050

Moral Intelligence and Amoral Leadership

Upon my rich experience, I take more seriously the great minds' wise warnings, as that

Humans are born as "amoral creatures" (Aristotle)

Humans are "radical evil" (Kant), regardless of all our culture, education and learning.

To translate in plain English, it is all about "moral intelligence", the capacity to apply universal moral codes to your thoughts and decisions, actions and behaviors. Or, it is "the capacity to understand right from wrong and to behave based on the value that is believed to be right".

As its attributes, the MI involves: Conscience and Empathy, Integrity and Responsibility, Forgiveness and Compassion, Virtue and Moral Universalism.

It is sometimes viewed as the central intelligence of all humans. 

The problem with it, the MI is distinct, if not orthogonal, to other forms of intelligence, cognitive intelligence and emotional intelligence, social intelligence and practical/business intelligence.

You are either dirty rich or purely moral, to be both is virtually impossible.

Most of humanity's problems, from local, national to global risks and threats, have been caused by an amoral leadership; for morally intelligent people could not sustain Darwin's “survival of the fittest”.

Modern industrial civilization is amorally ecocidal

One of the key points was to feature ecological crimes in the criminal code as the most severe social crimes.

Since ecocide as a systematic destruction of the natural environment, widespread, long-term and severe, is more destructive than even mass genocide. It threatens a people's physical existence, having genocidal dimensions.

Ecocide is both a cause and an effect of climate change, impacting the physical environment, ecosystems and human societies, broadly affecting the water cycle, oceans, sea and land ice (glaciers), sea level, weather and climate extreme events, degrading land and natural biological systems.

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Again, just one hundred fossil fuel producers — including privately held and state-owned companies — have been responsible for 71 percent of the greenhouse gas emissions released since 1988.

That means that the fossil-fuel industry executives, as Exxon CEO or Shell CEO or Koch Industries, should be qualified as mass murderers and put on trial for crimes against humanity.

For the death toll of climate change could easily be the hundreds of millions, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), unleashing social chaos and disasters.

"Exxon executives are among the wealthy who knew that disaster was looming, but did everything they could to protect their $$$$ at the expense of destroying the environment and the lives of humanity and our fellow creatures. The Koch family is even worse. David H. Koch said "A few degrees warmer would be pleasant." Many of those people have purchased estates in New Zealand and planes to carry them there at a moment's notice".

To date, there are only some rare cases against them, like as:

Nine cities have sued the fossil industry for climate damages.

Massachusetts attorney general Maura Healey opened an earlier investigation into whether Exxon defrauded the public by spreading disinformation about climate change.

Criminalization of ecocide under the Rome Statute is under debate without any effective results. There is no international law against ecocide.

In June 2021, an international panel of lawyers submitted a definition of ecocide and proposed a draft amendment to the Rome Statute that would include ecocide among the international crimes prosecuted under the Statute. Their proposed definition is:

unlawful or wanton acts committed with knowledge that there is a substantial likelihood of severe and widespread or long-term damage to the environment being caused by those acts.

“Environment” means the earth, its biosphere, cryosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere, as well as outer space.

Only a few countries have codified ecocide as a crime within their borders during peacetime: France (2021), Georgia (1999), Armenia (2003), Ukraine (2001), Belarus (1999), Ecuador (2008; 2014), Khazakhstan (1997), Kyrgyzstan (1997), Moldova (2002), Russia (1996), Tajikistan (1998), Uzbekistan (1994), Vietnam (1990).

In 2021, The French National Assembly approved the creation of an "ecocide" offence as part of a battery of measures aimed at protecting the environment and tackling climate change. Offenders will be liable to up to 10 years in prison and a fine of 4.5 million euros.

Meantime, nature, its oceans and seas, rivers and lakes, are deadly globally polluted. Coral disappears. Island nations go under water. Millions face hunger as the weather goes astray. Livelihoods disappear. Societies vanish. People die amass from PFAS and GenX chemicals causing pandemic cancers.

And meantime, supported by the national governments, the offender are dying in their beds without being confiscated of all their dirty richness, like D. Koch, putting the entire planet on the brink of crisis to enrich himself and a few other fossil fuel billionaires.

Why Machina sapiens is taking over

Modern human civilization is globally ecocidal, which is lacking collective and individual moral intelligence, especially, across its leadership, local, national or international.

We are the subjects of our amoral theories like Social Darwinism, which is  used to justify imperialism, racism, eugenics, social inequality, ecocide, climate change and mass extinction.

This is why Homo sapiens is highly likely to be disrupted by Machina sapiens, namely, by moral machine intelligence systems, ethical AI machines, smart algorithms, neural networks, humanoid robots and intelligent cyber-physical systems.

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In today’s world, mankind faces a harsh reality with many global risks and threats, environmental, economic, geopolitical, societal and technological, such as nuclear war, environmental demolition, social polarization, cybersecurity etc., as it is explored in the Global Risks Report 2023.

To solve such planetary issues, as “Global climate change and sustainable development”, requires collaboration and cooperation and collective decision among governments, international organizations, corporations, universities, NGOs, and individuals on a global intelligence scale.

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