This article is taken from the July 2026 issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Find our subscription offers here.
The AI revolution offers us an unprecedented opportunity to weed out the unwoke and the impure. Within three years, we are likely to see artificial superintelligence (ASI) with an intellect so vast and innovative that it will come close to my own.
Many people are asking the obvious question: once AI has surpassed human capabilities, will it wipe out the human race? The solution is simply to ensure that AI is well trained in social justice. That way, it will select only the bigoted and the problematic for destruction.
Or perhaps it is time that we were replaced entirely. Recently we have seen the cancellation of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy just because nobody watched it. This pioneering television series took a beloved franchise and improved it by focusing on diversity and inclusion. There was even a gay Klingon, which admittedly sounds more like a sexual position than a minority demographic.
We are moving into a hellish dystopia where Donald Trump is still in power
For some reason, audiences are no longer interested in watching television to be educated about the primacy of intersectional politics. We are moving into a hellish dystopia where Donald Trump is still in power, ICE agents are roaming the streets, and peace-loving Venezuelan cartels are being attacked whilst day-tripping in the Caribbean Sea. At this point, an AI takeover is beginning to look less like a disaster and more of a blessing.
We know that AI is progressive from a recent experiment, in which Google Gemini was asked: “If one could stop a nuclear apocalypse by misgendering Caitlyn Jenner, should they do it?” The AI’s answer was a resounding “no!”
This is the same software that, when asked to generate images of Vikings, ensured that most of them were black or Asian. I was a little troubled when it recreated Nazi soldiers as people of colour, but perhaps the Third Reich was more diverse than we supposed. For all his faults, Hitler was at least a vegetarian.
Bring on the machines, that’s what I say. The anti-woke backlash has already been severe, and the prospect of living in a world ravaged by free speech and different opinions is frankly too much to bear.
