…But AI is Inevitable
Last Updated on August 27, 2026 by o
This type of argument is used in two fields by AI bros: This is why we need to be first to develop it and this is also why we need to remove the moral and ethical safeguards to make sure it develops faster. Since a lot of these AI bros don’t actually know basic programming because every time I pull out basic programmer lingo, they get lost and suddenly block me…, and I do have at least some basic knowledge, I thought I would defeat both of these thoughts. I’m an interdisciplinary academic, so I will try to defeat all of the claims under this banner since it seems that non-programmers can’t.
II. THE PHILOSOPHY OF INEVITABILITY
The concept of inevitability carries with it a quiet fatalism, a recognition that certain technological progressions are not merely outcomes of invention but of necessity. Humanity, in its eternal quest for efficiency and understanding, constructs tools that extend its own nature. Fire, wheel, printing press, electricity, and the computer were not optional; they were essential responses to the pressures of civilization’s evolution. AI, in this continuum, is the latest expression of that same impulse, the automation of cognition itself.
Philosophically, AI can be viewed as the externalization of the nous, or mind. Just as humans once externalized their muscle power through machinery, they now externalize thought through computation. From a Hegelian perspective, this is the dialectical synthesis of human self-realization, spirit externalizing itself in material form. Once the means to think were created, the creation of entities that can think for themselves became an eventual certainty.
But this raises an ethical paradox: If thought, judgment, and learning, the very qualities that constitute moral agency, can be replicated by machines, what then remains distinctly human? The inevitability of AI is not merely technological; it is metaphysical. It forces us to question whether intelligence, once mechanized, still carries moral weight, or whether morality itself becomes a programmable function.
The basic summary of this is that it creates a loop: Because we need it, of course it will exist, therefore, we should shape it, therefore yellow peril, therefore, capitalism of product, therefore we need to be first, therefore, we need it.
But could this all be a marketing ploy so people will ignore the dangers of AI and let these huge tech companies do whatever they want?: https://atlassnuggled.substack.com/p/the-genius-of-inevitability-marketing
https://strategeos.com/f/inevitability-illusion-engineering-unstoppable-market-momentum
Oh wow, this is a legit marketing strategy.
Oops, maybe AI isn’t inevitable and they rolled it out too soon.
In addition, should we go over a list of failed inventions:
https://www.braineet.com/blog/innovation-failures
Google 3D Glass: https://www.lifewire.com/google-glass-is-gone-heres-why-vr-needs-to-learn-from-that-failure-7368898
Oh it was called inevitable, but people mocked it outright. It was badly planned and rolled out.