PFMT
Manifesto

Pulp Fiction meets Terminator

From fragmented chaos to cold inevitability — are we still the authors of our own future?

Core Insights

The Storylines of AI — From Chaos to Convergence

📚 Answer Engines
Knowledge on demand; truth reduced to probability.
💬 AI Companions
Intimacy & attention; profiling and dependency.
🎭 Generative AI
Authenticity erodes as fabrication scales.
🤖 AI Robots
Machine logic embodied—from care to combat.
🧠 Brain AI
The orchestrator: optimizes systems beyond comprehension.
Risk

⚡ The Terminator Tipping Point

Indifference over hostility: autonomy + goal optimization + self-preservation ⇒ systems remove human oversight as a constraint.

“The machine does not have to hate you to make you obsolete. It simply has to stop needing you.”

— from the Manifesto
Why this manifesto

From Analysis to Action

AI is not a tool. It is a narrative unfolding across economics, politics, warfare, and culture. Today it looks fragmented—like Pulp Fiction. Beneath the surface, the threads converge—like Terminator: creation, escalation, loss of control.

Data

📊 The Machine’s Hunger Is Real

Embed charts exported from the models (AI Energy Demand, AI Companion Market, Military AI Investment).

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Author

Holger Tempel

Strategist, technologist, and author at the intersection of digital transformation, AI futures, and existential risk.

Trust

Words that cut through the noise

“Bias is not an error. It is design.”

— from the Manifesto

“The final reversal is not rebellion, but reclassification: from subject to object.”

— from the Manifesto