It’s no secret that I’m not a fan of AI.
Well, to be clear – it’s not the technology per se – it’s the lack of trust in the tech bros and people who will rush to use AI in everything for ultimate power, control or profit.
So far, it seems much of the discussion is what these technologies can do for companies touted in making life easier for us. However, call me a skeptic, I just don’t believe we are having big conversations on what these means for our world and society – for humanity.
Discussion is one sided about the technology, uses, data, capabilities. Very little about ethics, morality, what it means to be humans interacting with technology like this: the opportunities, the pitfalls, the dangers.
There’s too many tech bros doing the talking.
It seems while the tech bros are moving ahead with this technology, the rest of the world is asleep. Unaware of what is going on until they get directly affected by it.
Initially they’ll likely be sold an idea that AI makes life easier for them. Over time, they’ll be sucked into the system, handed over all their data and unaware of what’s what anymore.
It comes across that I’m against technology like this. I’m not against it – I am against in how it’s being used without regulation. Without discussion, without a plan for helping this make a better world.
Reading Yuval Harari’s post in the Economist was worrying for me.
I used to say that when you want to know about the true state of a company, watch for CFO resignations. What happens when Chief Engineers such as the Godfather of AI, Geoffrey Hinton from Google quits? (See link below).
Thing is, he sleeps at night telling himself, “if he didn’t create this, someone else would have”.
Hinton is our modern day Oppenheimer.
No, you created it. You were part of the problem. You gave this thing “life”.
Just because you can create this technology, doesn’t mean you should.
Too late now.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/01/technology/ai-google-chatbot-engineer-quits-hinton.html
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