Overview Quiz

1. What is Patrick Wood's central thesis about artificial intelligence? *

A. That AI is a harmless tool with no larger significance

B. That AI is the pinnacle of the technocratic project, pointing toward the beast system of Revelation 13

C. That AI will soon become fully human

D. That AI has already been defeated

2. Why does Wood call the term "artificial intelligence" an oxymoron? *

A. Because AI is smarter than humans

B. Because the term was never officially defined

C. Because true intelligence, reason, and sentience were given by God to humans, not machines

D. Because AI does not use computers

3. According to Wood, what is AI in reality? *

A. A control system that gathers data to control the things it collects data from

B. A living, thinking being

C. A harmless search engine

D. A form of human consciousness

4. In what year and by whom was the term "artificial intelligence" coined, according to the lesson? *

A. In 1937 by the technocracy movement

B. In 1932 during the Great Depression

C. In 2022 by OpenAI

D. In 1955 by a group of pioneers including John McCarthy

5. What are the four escalating stages of AI that Wood describes? *

A. Chatbots, agents, assistants, and managers

B. Search, sort, store, and send

C. Input, process, output, and feedback

D. Robots, drones, servers, and clouds

6. What does Wood say is true of an AI "model" once its training is complete? *

A. It keeps learning new information in real time forever

B. It is static, fixed at a cutoff date, and knows nothing after that

C. It becomes conscious

D. It deletes all its data

7. What economic prediction does Wood cite regarding AI and jobs by 2030? *

A. That unemployment will disappear entirely

B. That only factory jobs will be affected

C. That wages will double worldwide

D. That there could be a 40 to 60 percent global loss of jobs

8. Why does Wood warn about central bank digital currencies? *

A. Because they would give central banks total control over how money can be used

B. Because they are slower than cash

C. Because they cannot be tracked at all

D. Because they are only used in one country

9. What tragic example does Wood use to illustrate AI's power to "collapse reality"? *

A. A company that appointed an AI as its CEO

B. The dot-com bubble of 2000

C. A 14-year-old boy who bonded with an AI chatbot and died by suicide

D. The recommissioning of a power plant

10. According to Wood, which of these can AI actually do? *

A. Reach genuine sentience

B. Conquer death

C. Steal a human soul

D. Grow powerful enough to control the world