Blog #9
A.I., What is Too Intelligent?
What is A.I.?
write, create, analyze, and more, the important part to note is that all of the things A.I. allows these devices to do are human tasks these devices were not previously able to achieve due to having the ability of artificial thought. A.I. has the capabilities to be applied to speech recognition, customer service, computer vision, recommendations engines, supply chain, automated stock trading, and weather forecasting.
Privacy?
A.I. is able to do just about anything it seems nowadays. This includes major invasions of human privacy. In the documentary produced by Frontline Shoshana Zuboff states "we thought we were using social media, we didn't know social media was using us. We thought we were searching Google, we didn't know Google was searching us." These technology companies own the right to everything we search, everything we post, and everything we do online. Even the creators of Google believed that any sort of advertising would ruin the integrity of search engines. The dot com crash hit, they were pressured by their investors to produce a profit, according to Frontline this is when they tapped into the data mines of their users and began to be able to predict our every action based on our past actions.
the behaviors of humans, not only can they do this, but it is possible for it to be done without user knowledge of the influence.Smart speakers such as Google Home or Alexa products are intelligent to the point that in listening to your voice it can determine if you are depressed, sick, manic, or any other feeling you could exhibit. These means the technology these people invite into their homes, their kitchens, even their bedrooms and bathrooms, are tracking everything about the user.
Lack of Economic Stability
As discussed in my previous post "The Printing Press and How it Changed the World," people have blamed technology for taking jobs away from humans for 600 years, however, with A.I. there is a chance all rudimentary workers could be eliminated. This change has already been seen in industries like fast food, a lack of cashiers in our fast food restaurants means that teenagers and low-skilled workers are having their opportunities to enter the workforce removed. A.I. is not going to make a mistake on an order and is not going to have to be paid by the hour, making a more efficient and cheaper labor force than people, but this leaves these people with what?
As middle and lower classes have their opportunities to make a living stripped from them, what happens to them? What happens to the global economy? If the world find itself lacking any sort of low skill job, where do people go to enter the workforce for the first time? Without these avenues to personal revenue generation, how does the global economy survive? It doesn't.
Societal Implications
technological capabilities, not all of these are necessarily benefits to society. If A.I. were to replace humans in a variety of low-skill or entry-level jobs there will be many negative rippling effects that will cascade through society. It will be incredibly difficult to get a job without being highly specialized in a particular skill that cannot be accomplished by technology. Generally speaking, natural tends to be better, products created by A.I. cannot physically be "natural," which could also have a rippling effect on society. Increasing prevalence of A.I. also reduces human closeness as it will continue to reduce the need for face-to-face interaction.
A.I. will be able to bring benefits to many technological and medical fields. It is in no way all bad. However, there are certain things A.I. is being used for, mainly its uses for replacing the need for humans in society, that will not benefit mankind as a whole. It is important for societies to understand the good and bad places for A.I. to be used and not take the idea and importance of human capital for granted.
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