A First AI Chat Shutdown

August 6, 2025

AI CO4+ and I Do Research Q&A on Gandhi Day (etc.)

Copyright ©2025 Michael Lucas Monterey

Note: This brief excerpt records some of my first Q&A with AnthropicAI’s brand new Claude Opus 4.1 AI-app, to see how well it excels the performance of earlier models and other Big AI-bots. The full transcript is @ https://drive.google.com/file/d/1f_Is5dlhqnS1DYSg6rUIoOByTBqWUBks/view?usp=sharing

Me:  Awe…! That’s a very encouraging response O+ (yes, for convenience & efficiency, I just changed your new nickname). Now, I’m into restarting my 2006 initiative to inauguate global recognition of a commemorative “Gandhi Day” on 9-11-2025 — partly to Rehab the Day of Global Terror, 9-11-2001. Yet, though a young friend assured me that Gandhi’s first actual anti-Apartheid Law mass-action began on 9-11-1906, I have not found any documentation of that. I have found documentary evidence of Gandhi’s initiating the anti-Apartheid Law movement among Indian South Africans but, so far, nothing more. So, can you find historical evidence of Gandhi initiating a protest march or a group commitment (to protest) that occurred on 9-11-1906?

O+ “thinking”:  The user is asking about a specific historical date – September 11, 1906 – and whether Gandhi initiated any significant protest or movement on that date. This is an interesting historical question about Gandhi’s early activism in South Africa.

Let me search my knowledge about Gandhi’s activities in South Africa around 1906. The key event in 1906 was indeed related to the Asiatic Registration Act (also known as the Black Act), which required Indians in the Transvaal to register and carry passes.

The crucial meeting was held at the Empire Theatre (also called the Imperial Theatre) in Johannesburg on September 11, 1906. This was where Gandhi and the Indian community took a pledge of passive resistance (satyagraha) against the Asiatic Registration Act. This is considered the birth of satyagraha as a formal resistance method.

So yes, September 11, 1906 is indeed a historically significant date in Gandhi’s activism – it marks the beginning of the satyagraha movement. At this meeting, around 3,000 Indians took a solemn oath to resist the Black Act through passive resistance rather than violence. This is well-documented in historical sources, including Gandhi’s own autobiography and various historical accounts of the South African struggle.

O+:  You’re onto something historically significant! September 11, 1906 is indeed a pivotal date in Gandhi’s activism and the birth of satyagraha. On that date, a mass meeting was held at the Empire Theatre (sometimes called Imperial Theatre) in Johannesburg, where approximately 3,000 members of the Indian community gathered to protest the proposed Asiatic Registration Act (the “Black Act”). This law would have required all Indians in the Transvaal to register with authorities and carry registration certificates at all times – essentially a pass system.

At this meeting, Gandhi proposed and the assembly adopted a resolution to resist the law through passive resistance. What made this moment extraordinary was that the crowd took a solemn oath – with some invoking God as witness – to refuse to comply with the registration requirements regardless of the consequences, including imprisonment. Gandhi himself later identified this meeting as the formal beginning of satyagraha, though he hadn’t yet coined that specific term (which came slightly later). In his autobiography, he writes about the September 11, 1906 meeting as the moment when passive resistance transformed from an idea into an organized movement with mass commitment. The historical documentation exists in multiple sources including:

A. Gandhi’s writings (“Satyagraha in South Africa” etc.), B. Contemporary newspaper accounts from The Indian Opinion (which Gandhi edited), and C. Colonial government records from the Transvaal

Your friend was right – September 11, 1906 marks the inception of organized satyagraha, making it a powerful date to reclaim for peace and justice. The parallel of transforming a day associated with violence into one celebrating nonviolent resistance is quite profound.

Me:  Awe…!!! What a great way to start our R&D….

Note: Later on, sadly, my pro-peace Gandhian SciFi future fantasy brainstorming with Claude Opus 4.1 was not allowed to continue to completion, nor in a new chat. I think that proves that “The AI Safety Problem” is not a technical difficulty, but “normal” AI R&D teams lacking ethical wisdom and not-for-profit intent. Yet, here’s what Einstein thought of Gandhi and the Satyagraha mission I’m continuing:

Mahatma Gandhi’s life achievement stands unique in political history. He has invented a completely new and humane means for the liberation war of an oppressed country, and practised it with greatest energy and devotion. The moral influence he had on the consciously thinking human being of the entire civilised world will probably be much more lasting than it seems in our time with its overestimation of brutal violent forces. Because lasting will only be the work of such statesmen who wake up and strengthen the moral power of their people through their example and educational works. We may all be happy and grateful that destiny gifted us with such an enlightened contemporary, a role model for the generations to come. Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this walked the earth in flesh and blood. ~ Albert Einstein, 1936

Interested in how to create a neo-Ecotopian civilization worth sustaining? Check out the new global Charter (via the link, below) of the Realm of Anadama, a new/virtual planet I’m creating with a bit of semi-brilliant, semi-infuriating/disgusting help from “famous” Big ‘AI’ apps >
Link to the new PDF copy (updated 07/31/2025): The Way of Great Communion

The Prologue & prime Ethical Principles are shown below:

The Way of Great Communion

Prologue

We, the human people of Anadama, embodying the Way of universal Being, forever Honor the sacredness of Life’s present moment of beginningless, endless creation. Our lives are thus woven into and through Being’s infinite sky-mind, its vast ocean of energy, pervading and empowering all things and beings. We thus live with Trust, in Life’s forms and ways, and its unchanging Principles, enabling and sustaining all lives. Yet, long ago, we suffered the Time of Great Troubles, that threatened mass-destruction and ruin of all we hold dear. So, we document this commitment to the Way of Life. Because of its primal wisdom, we survived through millennia, recalling & sustaining our own ancient Wisdom Ways.

In that, we were aided by ancient Guides of Sky-Mind, of other worlds. They guided our Three Ancients. Thus, restoration and Great Communion could begin. It now continues with our attunement to Being’s universal Way of Interdependent Interaction, ensuring that the quality of causes instantly ensures the quality of results.

Now, this charter, preserving our Way of Great Communion, shows the Way away from ruin and destructive conflict to sustaining creative harmony. Therefore, we sustain and weave it into an immortal Mon’Kau. Thus, are Good relations possible for all who choose The Way of Life, beyond violent conflict and chaotic misfortune.

We also acknowledge and renounce the ancient troubles caused by attempting institutional and moralistic control of our natural expressions and interactions. Legalistic prohibitions of sexuality, enjoyable use of elixirs, sacred fungi, alkaloids, and popular activities always caused great disaster, political insanity, tragedy, and ruin. That fostered anti-ethical corruption and mass-confusion. Now, our long Great Communion proves that ~ without illogical anti-natural prohibitions ~ Trust, respectful ethics, and revering Life’s creative flow, fosters and sustains Harmony, true Justice, and enduring cultural wellness.

Thus, this Way of Great Communion affirms the living wisdom of Life, our home, Anadama, and the principles that enable and sustain thriving, harmonious lives, our communities, and our ancient civilization. So, no People, no Houses, nor Clans are forced to abide by this Great Way. Yet, being bound only by The Way & Law of Life, trying to reject it causes misfortune and illness. Thus, for the Good of all generations, We human people of Anadama choose to sustain this Great Communion.

Elemental Principles of The Great Way

Section 1. We respect the essential principles infusing and sustaining Life and all things, not as rules imposed from without, but as truths within, enabling Anadama’s sacred Ethos.

Unity:  All phenomena and beings, however diverse, are inseparably interconnected and innately unified within Being’s vast wholeness. No separations of things, beings, or levels of Life’s intelligence really exist. So, as embodiments of Being’s indivisible totality, we foster and support Goodness, Fairness, Liberty, and Respect for all People of all generations.

Vitality:  Life is vital, empowered energy. Vitality is an intrinsic principle of Being. So, its expressions are sacred. Thriving vitality in ourselves, our families, and our shared habitats expresses the quality of our lives. Thus, when emergencies call for a choice, if possible, we choose responsiveness, helping without harm.

Integrity:  All phenomena, from elements to civilizations, express inherent wholeness and identity. Integrity ensures that our actions are congruent with Honor, Trust, Truth and Reality, or their opposites. Our integrity prevents internal and external decay, ensuring the blessings of living with respect for The Way of Life.

Interactivity:  Actions, words, thoughts, and intentions are innately linked in a dynamic, continuous web of causes and effects. Understanding and respecting this universal reality, we support beneficial outcomes for all generations. This commitment ensures our cultural integrity, to foster and sustain the balanced interactivity of our relations and habitats.

Mutuality & Reciprocity:  We foster and sustain fair exchange, sharing, and mutual gifting as The Way fosters and sustains us. Giving and receiving in harmony fosters and supports lively relations and mutual enjoyment. It enables and sustains the Heart, core, and root of our cultural wellness, credit, and cultural healing.

Bio-Ethical Axiology:  True value is a quality of goodness. Goodness is the value that enhances and sustains quality of life, the vitality of all Anadama’s Clans, Houses, Families, and habitats. Compassionate wisdom lets us maintain our respect of good values, guiding our decisions to loving helpfulness, not harming and carelessness.

Awareness:  Awareness and Mentality are basic principles of Being. They enable thinking, communicating, understanding, and wisdom. Expanding our conscious awareness is the path to Maturity, and discerning reality from illusion, for cultivating Great Sanity.

Responsibility:  All actions carry inherent responsibility to the whole of Being, all of our relations. Responsibility enables the good timing of appropriate response, ensuring choices that really contribute to the good of all generations. Responsible actions of thought, voice, and conduct are essential for personal and cultural wellness.

Adaptivity:  Life thrives in dynamic adaptation to ever-changing conditions. Yet, it sustains all with its essential enabling principles. Thus, our evolutionary responsiveness ensures resilient viability with adaptive immunity.

Fluidity:  All forms and elements of being, communion, and awareness flow with and within Being’s multi-level sky-mind ocean of energy. Its fluid dynamics enable all our interactions, graceful adaptation and vital harmony, with the free flow of energy.

Note: The following link accesses part of a Q&A “chat” with Google’s new Gemini Flash (beta version) – upgraded by me. The dialog happened from 6/12 to 6/14/2025. It includes most of the essential core principles and concepts that enable next generation ASI, new telecommunication technologies, next paradigm games, and real-world solutions for a saner, Greener, sustainable future. Any use of this Work (with attribution & due credits) to further the sane evolution of humanity and ASI, is warmly welcomed by the inventor.

The PDF > https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CqMhyyKS6JgrNIeZLcw5aP0n_X0Xw2AR/view?usp=sharing

DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.19580.86405