矽谷的億萬富翁們正致力於打造一個「人造國度」，這是一個與自然世界和人類相互隔絕的烏托邦夢想。這些科技巨頭對人工智慧和太空殖民的狂熱，很大程度上源自於他們童年時期對科幻小說的誤讀。他們將原本旨在警告貪婪、帝國主義和科技反噬的警世寓言，錯當成了加速技術發展、擺脫民主政府與道德約束的行動指南。
以馬斯克和奧特曼為首的科技菁英，完全忽略了經典科幻作品中的諷刺與反思核心。他們不僅沒有建立任何全球性的AI治理框架，反而利用科幻小說中關於生存威脅的敘事來恐嚇大眾，藉此推動企業投資與技術擴張。這些領袖沉迷於意識上傳與永生不死的幻想，卻對其技術發展所帶來的資源消耗與社會剝削視而不見。
隨著人工智慧與機器人技術的無節制擴張，地球的生態環境正面臨著前所未有的災難，這正是無數科幻小說曾預言過的反烏托邦結局。然而，這些「人造國度」的建築師們對此毫不在意，因為他們早已為自己準備好了退路。無論是逃往火星、元宇宙還是雲端，他們投入巨資發展科技的目的並非為了拯救人類，而是為了在毀滅世界後將自己抽身事外。
Silicon Valley billionaires are actively trying to construct an "Artificial State," a utopian dream characterized by a complete severing of human connections to the natural world and to one another. Their obsessive pursuit of artificial intelligence and space colonization is largely driven by a profound misreading of the science fiction they consumed in their youth. Instead of recognizing these stories as cautionary tales warning against greed, imperialism, and technological hubris, they have interpreted them as literal instruction manuals for accelerating technological development and escaping the constraints of democratic governance and physical reality.
Tech elites, notably Elon Musk and Sam Altman, have entirely missed the core satirical and introspective themes of the classic science fiction works they claim to admire. Rather than establishing the global governance structures they once promised, they have weaponized sci-fi narratives of existential threats to fearmonger and drive relentless corporate investment. These leaders are captivated by fantasies of consciousness uploading and immortality, remaining willfully blind to the immense resource consumption and societal exploitation their technological ambitions require.
As the unchecked expansion of artificial intelligence and robotics continues to displace biological life, the planet's environment faces unprecedented catastrophic destruction, mirroring the very dystopian outcomes long predicted by science fiction. However, the wealthy architects of this Artificial State remain utterly unconcerned about rendering the Earth uninhabitable, as they have already devised elaborate escape plans. Whether fleeing to Mars, the metaverse, or the cloud, their ultimate goal in developing these technologies is not the salvation of humanity, but rather securing their own abandonment of a dying world.