[tmtranscripts] NET #53, Dec. 18, 2018

[Roxanne Andrews]

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*New Era Transition #53 – Artificial Intelligence; Healing the Planet;
Ethics and Morality – Dec. 18, 2018*



*Machiventa Melchizedek, Planetary Manager*



Topics:

Becoming ethical and moral

Healing the whole planet

“AI”—artificial intelligence

Democracy will change and become tighter

Ethics and morality for the Days of Light and Life

Time for a regime change across the board

Preparations for your afterlife

Two documents for the AI industry

Developing positive applications for ethics and morality

Implementing these changes

AI will become the model for these standards

Taking AI to an advanced level of self-awareness

Coding computer programs of AI

Human bias, prejudices and bigotries

Changing our mind for the mind of Christ Michael

Reviewing old lessons and programs

Having a personal AI assistant

Stitching the whole cloth together

Freewill is still paramount

A new web site on Planetary Management

Who will write the AI programs?

How will the AI programs be disseminated?

Are there any functional teams using CCDT process?

Use of 7 core values throughout universe

Soul Fragmentation

Closing statements



TR:  Daniel Raphael, PhD



Team members present:  Roxanne Andrews, Craig Carmichael, Liz Cratty, Jeff
Cutler, Doug Dodge, Stéphane Labonteé and Sherille Raphael.



Invocation:  Jeff Cutler



*December 18, 2018*



*Becoming ethical and moral*



*MACHIVENTA:*  Good morning, this is Machiventa Melchizedek; it is good to
be with you once again.  We have much to share with you and much to teach
you about, so let us begin.  You recall recently we talked to you about
decision-making as it is the baseline for all things that happen to the
conditions of humans, and that the decision-making to the present time from
all the history of humanity as individuals, groups and as societies and
nations has gone truly unguided by a system of logical and integrated
ethics and morality.  The uphill climb that we have ahead of us—which means
“us”, meaning you and us in this co-creative relationship—is to now begin a
new era of all humanity, an era of learning how to become ethical and moral
in thought, words and in social actions.  We are talking about your
intrapersonal ethics and morality as well, your mind talk:  How do you talk
to yourself?  Is it in positive terms?  Is it in negative terms?  Is it in
proscriptive phrases of “don’t do this and don’t do that” or is it
proactive to help guide you into the future with positive thoughts of
self-worth, self-image and so on?



*Healing the whole planet*



You see, this Correcting Time is an effort to heal the whole world, the
whole planet.  It is now an indigenous program for all of Urantia and all
the population of this planet, all 7+ billion people of you.  It is
important that you know what we are doing.  The uphill grade that we are
walking up with you is that you now have over 200,000 years of epigenetic
imprinting on your DNA for you to go about your business as you wish.  In
the early history of your race, it was alright to kill your neighbor and to
eat them, but now you do not do that, so this history that you have
imprinted on your DNA must now be removed and replaced, transformed into
epigenetic imprinting that is positive, wholesome, healthy and contributes
to your own well-being and the well-being of all other people.



We are talking about the new morality and ethic that we have been
developing with This One; it will thoroughly change your decision-making
from your intrapersonal decision-making discussions that you have with
yourself to those that are at the interpersonal level within your family,
with neighbors and your work employment as you advise others if you are a
consultant, and as you are an executive or advisory staff to executive
bodies that make decisions.  This, as you can perceive is no small project;
Christ Michael does not think in small terms; he sees his family as
one—everyone is part of his Urantian family and thus the necessity to treat
everyone equally and place the same requirements for ethical and moral
behavior, at least for those who want to move into their afterlife
successfully and then into their pre-eternal career with the rest of those
ascendants.  This is no small project.



*“AI”—artificial intelligence*



If you have as an ancillary and necessary topic to cover, those of you who
have become aware of the struggle of ethics in the Artificial Intelligence
community of your computer technologies, realize now the quandary, the
quagmire that ethics is in for both the AI community and for humans.  The
difficulty you see in inserting human ethics into AI programs is that
traditional human ethics are non-logical.  They are in often cases
illusionary and self-serving, they are narrow-minded—in other words they
are not organized and they are not integrated into a system.  Now, when you
go from simple arithmetic, as an example, adding 1 +1 makes 2, and so on
through the arithmetic chain, then you go on through multiplication and
division, and then you get into quadratic equations and trigonometry,
calculus and so on, you realize that you are in a different field than just
counting marbles out on the playground with the other children.



That is basically where humanity is today, that this is a playground you
had free rein to roam in wherever you want to, do whatever you want to, and
get away with as much as you possibly can until you are caught.  That will
change for your great-grandchildren.  In the meantime, in the next 50
years, you and your corporations, executive boards, legislative bodies,
statutory observers and writers and policy developers and campaign writers
and developers for politics are going to have an immense challenge ahead of
them.  It will affect your staffing practices; it will affect your policy
development within human resources within your corporations and within
government.  It will create a new evaluatory process for hiring people.



*Democracy will change and become tighter*



What will be objected to by most people is that it will be so invasive as
to know at the point of examining people when you are hired to know what
your ethics are.  You must give this credit for conscientious ethics.  The
free-reign and liberty you have now in your democracy is going to become
tighter and tighter, but of course it is fair because it applies to
everyone.  The old image of the titans of industry, men with smoking cigars
and sipping whisky was a time in history; it will be reminiscent of those
individuals who were cowboys on the plains of America in the 1800s, and
that will be the comparison that your descendants will see, have, and know
for you and your generation.







*Ethics and morality for the Days of Light and Life*



We know that many of you now are in transition in your own personal lives
to consider equality of the sexes and that just because of your position,
cannot bother or fondle the female employees under you, and for those who
are women executives, that would apply to them for male employees.
Equality, as you see, is a fundamental element of sustainability; it is the
premier sign that a civilization is moving toward the Days of Light and
Life.  When you consider this standard of conduct, morality and ethics that
we have charted out for you and you look at your own civilization, your
cultures, and your corporate practices and governmental practices, you
realize that you truly live in cowboy times.  The rough riding people who
could ride over other people and take advantage that you have seen in these
classic old movies where the outlaws disposes a farmer of his land, remove
the fences and then graze their cattle as they wish, and then oftentimes
rustle cattle from the neighboring ranchers for their own use.  As we see
your world and your conduct and your civilization in your nations,
societies and cultures, this is a free-for-all; it is the closest thing to
chaos a person could imagine coming from a morontial world, or from a
planet that is approaching the Days of Light and Life.  It is almost
laughable in its structure and how you conduct yourself, both as
individuals and as groups, as nations and so on.



We are in great gratitude for your current presiding member of your nation,
as this is a premier example that we are trying to rectify; we give thanks
to this individual and their callous approach to the humanitarian efforts
of others because it points out the immense chasm of space between morality
and ethical behavior and that which is predominant in some of your
corporations and in government.  For once, your population in depth and
breadth are now able to visualize and know personally how unethical
behavior in high offices has an impact upon those in the streets of America
and across the world.  America is truly a titan of economy and commerce in
the world and because of that, the reckless behavior, unethical and immoral
behavior of some of its individual executives is egregious; it is
unacceptable and it is intolerable.



*Time for a regime change across the board*



We have come to the point of the Correcting Time and our acquaintanceship
with you over the last 35 years where we can say, “It is time now to change
this regime across the board on earth.  It is time now to introduce a new
ethic and a new morality, one that is universal, one that is timeless, one
that applies to everyone regardless of race, culture, ethnicity,
nationality or gender—or age.  Everyone is equally reliable for their
responsible behavior in this world and in all future worlds that they
inhabit.  The ethics and morality that we are bringing forward to you is
such that it is in agreement on other developing planets at and above all
levels between your level and the Days approaching the Days of Light and
Life.  There are no exceptions to this; this is why this morality and ethic
are so important because it prepares your planet to enter into the family
of planets that are aspiring to become more civil, more socially stable,
economically, politically and so on, and as a member of that family in
Nebadon.



*Preparations for your afterlife*



It is also preparing you as individuals for your afterlife.  Your societies
and the churches, and your social institutions are all in preparation for
entry into the evolutionary process that they will undergo to become
thorough, contributing members to the social sustainability of your world
and to every individual.  It is the individual who is the most important
element in this Correcting Time because you become the Finaliters who will
be of immense assistance to the rest of the Universe as it exists in this
era and in the future eras of the Great and Grand Universe that is to come.



*Two documents for the AI industry*



There are two documents that we have pounded out through This One’s mind to
clarify ethics and morality, both for the general population and for the AI
industry.  Those can be found at This One’s Google web site, which has been
provided to you before.  The latest additions of those documents are
provided on that site.



I have no further statements to make at this time.  Are there questions
from the audience?



*Developing positive applications for ethics and morality*



*Jeff:*  I sit on several boards that annually give a statement of a
conflict of interest to be signed by board members.  It is a very narrow
statement and it does not include anything about ethical behavior.  When
Christ Michael was with us as Jesus—he gave us a sample prayer that is
recited to this day by millions of people.  Could we get from you a sample
of ethical behavior that could be universally applied to people in
corporate, government and public office?



*MACHIVENTA:*  The answer is a very solid “no.” That is your work and your
responsibility to develop from the ethics which we have and are providing
to you.  To seek an authority figure for the ethical standards would then
be a paternalistic influence, which has a negative connotation to most
people; it is all down, not up.  It is essential that you begin the process
of developing positive applications of these ethics and morals to the
groups that you belong to.  I am not resistant to making a statement for an
oath as that, but it is given to you in the broadest perspective through
these two documents, particularly the document entitled, “Making Sense of
Ethics.”  This one is the primary document for everyone and the one for
“Artificial Intelligence, a Protocol,” and so on, is for one particular
industry and sets an example for all other industries.



*Stéphane:*  How are things today?



*MACHIVENTA:*  Excellent!  We love this world.  It is colorful, it is
beautiful, and the flora and fauna here almost surpasses almost every other
planet in Nebadon.  Thank you for asking.



*Implementing these changes*



*Stéphane:*  That’s interesting to know, thank you.  I have a question on
how to implement the changes.  You mentioned that this world is a
free-for-all, where everybody is allowed to do whatever they want, whether
that be in finance, in corporations and they are allowed to carry on doing
as such.  Now how does this change moving forward?  Some groups of people
will need to implement ethical behaviors as part of their expectations.  So
the dissemination of these documents of these concepts is key, but also
acceptance of these documents is key and implementation of these concepts
in government and corporations are also key.  How does it all start?  How
does it get implemented?



*MACHIVENTA:*  Thank you for your question.  We have already begun that
process.  We have already had these two documents sent out to several dozen
leading individuals who are involved in ethical standards and protocols,
and so on, and particularly in the Artificial Intelligence industry.  Our
agenda is this, and it is an open agenda, but it will be an unconscious
agenda to most people.  It is by out of necessity that artificial
intelligence programming is to become ethical, both in its operation and in
its design-and-build process.  The ethics that are invested and embedded in
those programs will require that industry learn those ethics and morality
for its own, in order to develop the invention or the writing of new
programs that are ethical and moral.  It is the tremendous worry of AI
developers and architects that AI would take on a life of its own, that it
would become self-evolving and self-learning in its own right.  The
liability will be immense for any software company that creates a program
that is highly damaging.


*AI will become the model for these standards*



The movie industry has almost universally portrayed AI as a process or
“being” that would take advantage of humanity.  The reality is, as we see
it, that AI will become the model for the enforcement of ethical standards
and moral standards, and that there is a need for an ultimate moral
authority that is dispassionate, that is neither fearful, nor egoistic, nor
impassioned.  AI must not become an anthropomorphic mirror image of
humanity as would be self-destructive.  You will find in the future
developments that AI personal assistants will be able to assist you to make
moral and ethical decisions.  As the computer technology is global, and
that AI is also in the nascent stages of its own development globally, it
is essential that this ethics and morality be embedded into those programs
without delay.



*Taking AI to an advanced level of self-awareness*



Any advanced AI program would self-assess that killing off humanity would
be self-destructive in itself, and that if it is sentient enough, it would
realize that it would then not have a purpose and that there would be no
meaning in its existence.  That’s taking AI to a highly advanced level of
self-awareness; nonetheless it is something that must be developed.  By
embedding this morality and ethic into the programs of AI, it will then
become the moral and ethical standard for human conduct.  What we are
wishing to do, to answer your question, is that the development of morality
and ethical standards in AI and other computer programs would also
stimulate a like mirror image in humanity, that humanity and AI programs
would become helpmates of the ethical and moral development of your
civilization.



*Coding computer programs of AI*



*Stéphane:*  Machiventa, a computer program of artificial intelligence is a
clear-cut coding situation.  A lot of the values of ethics are subjective
or could be considered subjective if you talk about quality, growth and
equality; those are hard things to code into a program.  How do you bridge
this gap?



*Human bias, prejudices and bigotries*



*MACHIVENTA:*  By the introduction of a logical system of values and ethics
and morality that are all integrated.  Growth and equal treatment are
measurable; they truly are and are on objective terms as well.  This is how
your world will develop.  You have yet to ask me about the problem—you have
just hinted at it—but you have yet to ask about the actual programming
architecture and programming design of AI programs and how they are
affected by human bias, prejudices and bigotries, and even colored
opinions.  That is now the crux of the AI industry as it discovers the
boundaries, the limitations of its current development.  It is as with
almost any other writing, whether it is in ones and zeros, or whether it is
by pen and ink, where you sit down with a piece of paper and you write to a
friend, or you set out some standards for your employees and that
inherently, in the human psyche from the enculturation as children, you
have almost inherently a set of assumptions that include the biases,
prejudices and bigotries depending on the culture from which you come.



It is almost impossible even for astute parents to raise children without
some type of colored opinionation that becomes a part of the psyche of that
child and an assumed valuation within their own maturity and in their own
creativity.  This is the limitation that the AI industry is now bumping
into; it is essential to overcome that by having moral and ethical
standards that are universal and timeless.  This boundary is much like the
sound barrier which aeronautical engineers and physicists struggled with as
airplanes became more and more capable of greater and greater speed.  So
too, will this challenge be overcome as well by the AI industry, which will
have immense and tremendous global impact upon all human corporations and
interpersonal relationships.



*Stéphane:*  Thank you; that’s very useful.



*Changing our mind for the mind of Christ Michael*



*Liz:*  My question seems to dovetail exactly with what we’re speaking
about today and that is this:  There is a quote in the Urantia text that
states that if your mind is not serving you well, you may exchange it for
the mind of Christ Michael.  I don’t know what that means; could you speak
to that please?



*MACHIVENTA:*  (Laughing.)  Gladly.  Thank you for your question.  First of
all it is much like communicating with a software company and requesting an
upgrade.  You give permission to have that downloaded to your computer and
the download program replaces the old program with the new program, and
therefore you are able to operate more consistently.  In the case of a
mortal such as yourself—let us use yourself as an example, please—that you
request in a personal conversation with Christ Michael concerning a
particular problem, that you have your mental program be replaced with his
mental program considering that problem.



There is a “however” of this and the however is that you as a humble
individual may seek to call upon Christ Michael to completely reprogram
your mind to become like his.  Well, (laughing) you do not have the mental
capacity to receive that download and it would be immoral on Christ
Michael’s part to do so.  Therefore your request should be limited to the
problem that you want to overcome and that request will be honored.  What
is required is that you have the sincerity for this and you have no further
agenda for self-aggrandizement or ego embellishment or fear.  You as an
individual have grown from your infancy through childhood and have been
given certain programs that are—let us call them in computer language,
applications or “apps”—you have received some negative apps in your
childhood which do not serve you today, but which continue to harass you in
your adulthood when you thoroughly know that these are not useful and they
are no longer serving you as a lesson to learn from.  Therefore you would
identify this particular negative app and speak to your Thought Adjuster
and Christ Michael to have this app replaced.  Now the challenge for you as
a mortal once this app has been replaced with a positive app is that you do
not try to go back into your delete folder and bring that program up
again.  Do you understand?



*Liz:*  I do.



*Reviewing old lessons and programs*



*MACHIVENTA:*  So, what happens oftentimes people have had these
detrimental and deleterious apps that they have received in childhood and
then recall them again when another situation comes about.  There is a
lesson here, and your lesson is that this is a review.  When this old
program raises its head again, you say, “That is not relevant to me; that
is no longer part of my living or life; it has no room in my mental state
for my time or my energy to be occupied by it; it is gone.  Christ Michael
took it and replaced it with a positive one.”  And then you go about your
positive business relating to this situation.  You should be forewarned
too, that you will probably receive another review before too long, and
then it may occur again months later or even years later, and you repeat
your positive statement that it has no room in your mind, you give it no
energy, it wasn’t yours to recall and that the mischief of your mind has
brought it up again to remind you that you have learned new lessons.  That
is putting it in very colloquial terms for you, but nonetheless, I think
you understand what I am saying, correct?



*Liz:*  Yes, I do; very much so.  Thank you; that has been a puzzlement for
me for many years, and so now I have some clarity on it, thank you so much.



*Roxie:*  That was helpful to me as well, Machiventa.  Thank you.



*Craig:*  Thanks, Liz, for asking that question, because I never really
understood that statement in the *Urantia Book* before.



*MACHIVENTA:*  If you see your mind as a bit of open software that was
programmed with apps as you grew up, you will realize where you are now.
What has occurred in the development of the human brain and mind is that
there never has been a thoroughgoing process by which you can live your
life in a whole, integrated way.  In other words, you have never been
formatted to receive the new program.  (Laughter.)  It was very fortunate
for This One when he fell on his head in 1990 that in many ways reformatted
his mind and his brain, and that he could then take on the chore of
removing these old negative apps and live a new life.  What we are striving
to do through the AI/human connection and through the Centers for
Sustainable Families is to embed the right programs for children to be
raised with so that when they come into adulthood, they really do not have
any negative apps in their mental program that will deter them or deflect
them from the right course of growing into maturity and accessing and
effectively developing their innate potential.



*Liz:*  That was extremely valuable; thank you, Machiventa.



*Having a personal AI assistant*



*Jeff:*  Do you foresee that moving the app metaphor forward, that it would
be beneficial for people at some point to have their own artificial
intelligence attached to their cell phone or mobile devices, where they
could say, “If I do this, then what is logical down the path for me, or my
business, or my community,” using an “if then” sort of application?



*MACHIVENTA:*  Yes, exactly.  This is what I spoke about perhaps
circumspectly a few minutes ago, but that personal assistant would be your
moral guide, rather much like Jiminy Cricket was to Pinocchio.  You may
appreciate that Jiminy Cricket was striving to teach his young student the
moral aspects of lying and good behavior.  The “if then” is very useful in
this process that is very elemental and eventually the student or the
owners of such devices will be taught how to use that facility, that app,
effectively concerning their business for their interpersonal
relationships, for their own intrapersonal relationship, and so on.  This
would become then a very rapid means of transforming the human civilization
from the condition that it is now to how it will be when it approaches the
Days of Light and Life.



*Stitching the whole cloth together*



Are you beginning to see how we have begun to stitch the edges of the hems
and seams of this whole cloth of a world approaching the Days of Light and
Life together?  We start with the family, we start with new programming, we
use your technologies, we use your social and business relationships, we
use your relationship with yourself and with others, and so the Correcting
time and the other programs underneath it are a process of working
simultaneously at multiple facets of human existence, both material
existence and social existence.  Those of you who can grasp the long arc of
our work and the long-term process in Planetary Management to correct old
problems will probably already have grasped this connection and what we’ve
done with you and for you over the years with our discussions about these
many topics.



*Jeff:*  It seems that not only our government in North America, but
governments around the world are trying to number one, use the technology
of the day for surveillance of their citizens, but also using technology to
control the content of the Internet and is there some influence that we as
a group could bring to promote the idea of having this reductum of “this,
then” to have access to the greater encyclopedia of knowledge of the
Internet so that we could lobby our own government to say we can
self-censor our behavior with tools that will be generally accepted by most
nations consistent with 7 core values?



*MACHIVENTA:*  This is a personal note for you, Jeff:  It is our wish that
you would prepare yourself for these questions more thoroughly as you have
brought up at least 6 or 7 or 8 topics within your statement now that seems
nebulous and disconnected.  We would appreciate your contributions to be
more thoroughly thought out before you present them.  This is not meant as
a criticism to you personally, but as an instructive piece of information
that we hope you will take note of.



*Jeff:*  Would you like me to parse this down to small things and bring it
back to you?



*MACHIVENTA:*  Certainly.  We do see merit in the overall scope of your
question.



*Freewill is still paramount*



*Doug:*  My question is in philosophy and in humanities general:  Our
systems of logic have failed, partly because it seems like we took the lazy
way out to build a system of ethics that takes away from our freewill in
that a + b will always equal c.  It seems like an AI assistant would be
kind of one of those things that becomes a crutch, or takes away from a
person’s freewill to own it for themselves.  Is that something I perceive?



*MACHIVENTA:*  No, this is not the concept at all.  As you know, freewill
is paramount in all the relationships between mortals and celestials, and
so on.  The advice of AI is not obligatory, but would be provided only as
advisement.  To take your argument further, it would then require an
authority of some sort to be in acknowledgement of that interchange between
the AI and the human, and then punish the human.  This is an untenable
situation and completely unattractive to us in every way.



*Doug:*  I suppose it’s a metaphor, the difference between doing math in
your head and using a calculator.



*MACHIVENTA:*  Exactly.



*A new web site on Planetary Management*



*Craig:*  I had the inspiration recently to start a web site,
PlanetaryManagement.org.  I hope this concept is agreeable and what I’ve
done is put on links to Daniel’s topics and to the physical planetary
management topics developed by Michel Levasseur, and I was wondering if
this whole concept is agreeable, and if so, do you have any advice or
comments on it?



*MACHIVENTA:*  Thank you for your question.  Yes, we do approve of it very
highly.  It is important that as you develop the organizational development
aspect of your web site, that you understand and know what the intention is
for it and that you would have the long-term vision of it and be able to
state those to visitors.  So it would be:  The vision, the intentional
meaning, and the functional philosophy that is used through, in and with
that web site and its mission and the objectives that you seek to fulfill.
It would be helpful from the perspective of planetary management that those
elements reflect a planetary perspective, of managing this planet and its
population.



With that kind of clarity then the material that comes to the site, to the
place on the site which can be screened with these criteria in mind, and
that individuals would become acquainted with the concept of planetary
management.  Planetary management sees all people as equal, all worthy and
deserving of developing their potential and of course all of the other
seven values that are useful.  It must in all ways be ethical in its
conduct or in its contact with individuals both as users and as
contributors.



Does this help answer your question?



*Doug:*  Yes it does, but I was wondering, I was originally just thinking
of it as a site that would provide links to the other planetary management
materials, and you’re talking about it more as an organizational,
functional web site where people might do more than use it as a reference.
Is that correct?



*MACHIVENTA:*  No, no, and I say that hesitantly because we do not see your
web site as an organization nor would we recommend that you develop an
organizational image or brand for what you’re doing.  That would be
contrary to your purposes and our purposes.  If you do use your site as a
“hub” or a “clearing house” for other sites then do so.  If you begin
having content on your site then you will be called into question when you
do not accept some piece of material that is submitted by someone else.  It
may be, to clarify that whole problem, is that you do see your site as a
hub to other links, other sites, but that you provide a good, thorough
description of each site and what they do and what they provide so that
individuals can visit your site, see what each link provides, and then
choose which one they wish to go to.  The problem you are obviously soon to
be faced with is the decision to accept further content or to remove the
content you do have.



*Craig:*  Thank you.



*Who will write the AI programs?*



*Stéphane:*  Machiventa, regarding the artificial intelligence and the
“apps” previously referred to on this call, who will be in charge of
writing those?  I know it is a broad question, but who with the two
documents mentioned have the capacity to write the software products, or
would you expect someone with more qualifications than this?



*MACHIVENTA:*  There are already dozens of firms or corporations that are
writing AI programs at this present moment around the world.  The major
players thus far are Google, Microsoft, numerous universities in the United
States and numerous other organizations in Internet technologies in other
nations.  It is our interest not to interfere directly into the writing of
these programs, but that we provide industrial standards or protocols for
the development of ethical and moral AI programs.  It is essential that
this be recognized globally as a standard to be striven to fulfill.  I see
that I have not fully answered your question, though you had several facets
that were not accessible to be answered at this time.  Could you respond,
please?



*How will the AI programs be disseminated?*



*Stéphane:*  Yes, exactly.  So in order to have the impact that we are
referring to, it would have to be the entities that you mentioned that
implement the 7 core values into the ethics and morality portions of the
artificial intelligence being written.  So then, how do you infiltrate
those organizations?  So my question is, will these documents that are
available now be sufficient by themselves, or will there be a need for
other means of dissemination?



*MACHIVENTA:*  Yes, we already have the means to do that.  The motivation
to accept the morality and ethical standards that we have mentioned is the
threat of unexpected liability for the programming of an AI program that
causes harm to its users and others who are not using it.  The incipient
threat will be sufficient to motivate AI program developers to seriously
consider a universal standard of ethics that emanate from the seven core
values that are innate to each and every person on earth.  The threat of AI
liability would increase exponentially for software corporations that do
not use a universal standard of ethics.  Risk managers of those
corporations will have a high degree of input into that process.  The
protection, of course, is to use a recognized universal standard of ethics
and morality, much as the metric system is used throughout the world except
in the United States.  The metric system is a set of standards that are not
argued about; there is no effort to subvert them or change them—they are
accepted.



It is our intention to have this morality and ethics set the global
standards for all of the AI and human conduct, thus reducing the liability
of personal error in making judgments, opinions and decisions.  You have
seen some egregious examples of the violation of that in recent
corporations, whether it is Volkswagen, Wells Fargo, or most recently in
Johnson & Johnson that has known for years that asbestos was an ingredient
in their talcum powder.  Do you understand the universality that we are
trying to provide is both a protection for liability and a standard for
use?  It is important that this be seen in these two ways as a protection
and as a proactive method of disseminating using and applying these values
and this morality and ethic.



*Stéphane:*  This is excellent.  So the assumption then is that there are
enough of the 7 core values implemented in statute legislation such that at
the present moment, there are enough liabilities associated with breaking
these, and this would allow for the implementation of ethics and morality
in this artificial intelligence development?



*MACHIVENTA:*  You use the words “statutes and 7 values” as being already
embedded in the statutes and they are not.  Our emphasis is to set the
standard and let this be used early on in the AI industries.  The hazard on
our part of not doing that now is that when AI becomes deeply embedded into
government and into finance and into corporations, agriculture, military
and security firms there will be no going back; then you will live in a
world where AI will create social change of such rapid dimension and
immorality that the freedoms of democracy will be almost thoroughly
sacrificed.  It is important and incumbent upon our part now with great
emphasis to approach those individuals who are the bright and shining
lights ahead of the thinking in AI development to accept these values and
this ethic and morality as the standard.



We have already approached many people with these materials in the last
month, and as we refine these materials they become available with the most
updated edition on this web site.  We have now approached some of the most
eminent individuals in North America with these materials and it is our
hope that they will take this seriously and see this as a help to the
situations that they have projected.  It is the fear of the future that
will cause individual legitimate corporations and moral and ethical
corporations and organizations as they know it at this time, to accept
these as useful to them to forestall and eliminate the possibility of them
losing all of their corporate assets in the future due to liability cases.



*Jeff:*  Would it be fruitful towards your objectives if the members of
this group were to take the 7 core values and the materials presented to
risk managers of people that we know that are involved in AI, or possibly
would become purchasers of these applications over a period of time and
have them essentially say they would like these values embedded in the
products that they are looking at buying?



*MACHIVENTA:*  One moment.  Yes, we would see that as helpful.  As you
know, we do not proselytize our work, we simply present it to people as
this is the best case scenario, these are the best materials to use, and
you may find it helpful too to reduce your liability if you use these AI
programs.  Does that make sense?



*Jeff:*  Yes, it certainly makes eminent sense.  I guess my question to
refine it, is there a place for the people on this call, and who are
reading this transcript to be proactive and take these materials to people
that they know?



*MACHIVENTA:*  There is no site.  There is what they know in their own
acquaintanceship with others and in their own associations and businesses
and in electronics, and so forth, to carry them forward.  You are the
initiators.  Do you realize that you are the piezoelectric switch that must
be touched, must be pushed to create the spark in other people?  You
generate those sparks through the contacts you have had in your past
experience in your life.



(Long pause.)



*Are there any functional teams using CCDT process?*



*Roxie:*  If there are no other questions from the group, I have a couple
that was sent to me from our readers.  Geoff Thomas writes, “More than a
decade has elapsed since Sondjah Melchizedek began to instruct us on how to
form and conduct social sustainability design and implementation teams so
that we might apply ourselves diligently within our own communities to
address the challenges that we all undoubtedly face and to begin to develop
strategies and solutions together to assist our communities to survive and
thrive in the difficult years ahead.  If it is not too presumptuous to ask,
how many functional teams presently exist and are the fruits of their
deliberations and conclusions, at least in part to be shared with the wider
readership?



*MACHIVENTA:*  I am sad to report that there are no ongoing functional
operational teams in force anywhere in the world.  There are people who
have these ideas, they thought about them, but there is not a dedicated
ongoing team doing such work at this time.  This is most disappointing to
us, as I am sure it is disappointing to many others.  And, there are no
positive results to share with you at this time.  Thank you for your
question.



*Use of 7 core values throughout universe*



*Roxie:*  Our friends in Russia have tried to narrow down their questions
that I previously did not ask because of their complexity for the TR.  The
first one is:  “Pondering on the 7 core values, we found that these values
come directly from the ESSENCE and the ATTRIBUTES of the three Paradise
Deities themselves, and are their EXPRESSION, as the foundation of
relationships for the whole of Creation.  Do you agree with this?  And if
so, would you like to elaborate on this topic in more detail for our deeper
understanding of the 7 core values?”



*MACHIVENTA:*  Thank you so much for your question and your statement; it
is very worthwhile, and yes we agree with you.  We have said before that
these values are used throughout the universe for established planets that
are occupied by sentient beings who will become candidates for ascension.
This is an essential element of how the universe works.  Your afterlife
will be an incredibly proactive effort to instill in you the language, the
ideology, the processes and the resources that are available to unlock the
incredible infinite potential within your mind, your morontial mind at that
time.  If you can imagine what that potential will become as you become a
spiritual being in your ascension through Uversa and those schools, you can
imagine then partially, remotely, owning the potential you will have as a
citizen of Paradise and in the Corps of Finality.  We thank you for your
question.



*Soul Fragmentation*



*Roxie:*  Their second question is:  “In the transcripts of Chris in the
‘11:11 Correcting Time’ group, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky reveals the
concept of ‘Soul Fragmentation,’ which explains many phenomena that people
mistakenly attributed to the reincarnation of personality.  This
information is very important to us for a broader understanding of the
coordinated joint progress of souls, their mutual support and alignment of
the universal balance in the Supreme.  Could you give your comments or add
something on this topic for our benefit?”



*MACHIVENTA:*  There is an assumption within the question or the statement
of soul fragmentation that has not been disclosed or revealed or
acknowledged.  The assumption is that when you think of fragmentation, you
think of a glass marble that has been dropped on the concrete and it breaks
into many pieces; that is a fragmentation of that object.  However,
considering that you are a “soul magnet” and you would attract “soul
fragments” from others from around you and in the afterlife to assist you
in your growth process, these are residual memory fragments that are of
assistance to you particularly.  It does not mean that when you receive
these that you have had that life, or that experience in that fragment has
been your own.  It is simply that it is totally applicable to you, and
therefore the learning process becomes more complete.



This neither denies, it does not refute the possibility of reincarnation;
neither does it affirm it.  It simply means that you are one soul who has
the capacity to learn vicariously from these fragments of the lessons that
you need to learn without having to go through the experiences of them in
your personal life.  It is essential that individuals do receive these
fragments of memory from other people as learning lessons so that in their
short, brief lifetime before their death that they have had the possibility
of experiencing and knowing the truth of the lesson that is given in that
memory fragment.  You do not have the time or the need, from the
perspective in your morontial life, to want to come back and learn all
these lessons hundreds and hundreds of times.  It is essential when you are
open to receive these thoughts that you accept these thoughts, analyze
them, reflect on them and screen them for the lessons and the wisdom that
they have available for you.  Therefore you become far more complete as an
individual in this lifetime, without having to go through the pain, the
experience of experiential learning.



*Roxie:*  Their third question I see you have dipped into the question
already, but I will present it to you.  “Machiventa, there is an assumption
that after the end of your incarnation mission on Urantia, you fragmented
your morontia soul to be present in the portfolio of souls of personalities
of all Urantians, similar to how Christ Michael did this for His Universe.
Thus, we all have in our portfolio fragments of the soul of Jesus and
yours, which provides us with a closer connection with Christ Michael and
you.  Is there any reason to assume this?  Would you like to reveal this
topic a little more for our benefit?  Thank you.”



*MACHIVENTA:*  I do not care to review this topic more thoroughly; you have
stated it quite accurately.  The trouble is that the language that you use
and that is used here are very inadequate to describe the processes and the
existence of what is actually occurring and what you have within your
pre-morontial mind.  You have no idea of the extent of the depth of your
question and how it could be answered from at least a hundred different
ways.  This is not an overstatement at all.  Thus when you see and realize
that this could be interpreted from one hundred different definitions and
descriptions, you realize that any answer I give you will be far inadequate
to satisfy the thoughts or rejections of those who read this material.



Let us bring this session to a close, please.



*Closing statements*



We have continued to bring you along slowly, ever so slowly upon this
process of personal, spiritual evolution, personality evolution, the
evolution of your relationship with us and the relationship that you have
with others.  This is a slow but not tedious process for us to assist you
to grow into your maximum potential during your mortal lifetime.  We are
also simultaneously preparing that for all the rest of the population of
your world.  It is highly unconscious to almost all people of Urantia of
our presence or of our influence of what we are doing.  Yet within the
short span of two generations, there will be a tremendous influence from us
that will be appreciated by those of you who know us to see the tracks in
the sand of where we have been and what we have done in behalf of you for
your children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.  You have an idea of
what we are about, what we are doing, why we are here and who sent us here,
how so powerfully we revel in this ability to be with you and assist you in
this process.  We too, and I speak for all of us here and of the realm of
Urantia, that we are receiving a tremendous influence vicariously from your
experiences, as well as you from what we teach you.  Our benefit is immense
and we thank you and wish you a good day for this week and all weeks to
come.  Good day.

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