“A teenager is like a poisonous insect on the edge of a razor: a vulnerable and dangerous creature in unison. ”The phrase was generated by an AI tool at the request of the Russian novelist Anna Starobinets, after the writer asked her He required him to go further and write a story, he was not able to deliver anything that was not banal. How far can your atuonomy get? What are the threats we face and how to prevent them? Can you put doors to the field? What opportunities open in science and medical research? … (1)
The paragraph that introduces this first reflection on AI, gives us an interesting fact and a series of questions, which should be the conductive thread of this first approach to the small study of artiificial intelligence and human rights.
First, to comment that since the beginning of the times in which the first electronic devices were created, artificial intelligence has been there. These small microchips, introduced into the IBM Fausts of past decades or the subsequent devices for the control of science, the creation of armament or being part of the life of consumers through increasingly sophisticated devices, embedded in the home of each of us, they have taken over our intimacy, at the same time they facilitated us Life. Frigorific that tell us that buying, smart washing machines that question the decisions we make when it comes to cold or hot water to wash the clothes, large computer companies that get into our computer and block us any program so that we consummate the latest generation, and thus a long etc. without talking about mobile phones that have us hooked on superlative communication without control, and make us believe that without them we would not have the right to live, than If you are not you are nobody, as constantly repeated when talking about social networks. And this, only in his superfluous. They imagine how AI is developing in the military, espionage, economic warfare, the relationship between states.
The science fiction field has already given us emblematic titles where robots controlled by artificial intelligence have tried to take control of the Earth. The TerminatorIt is an American film that saw the light on the big screen in 1984. In it, actor Arnold Shwarzenegger plays a Ciborg of the future (2029) that is sent to the past to kill a pregnant woman of a child, whose future was to control human resistance and rebel against the AI that controlled the planet. Interestingly, both in this movie, and in I, robots, Interpreted by Will Smith, in 2004, it is tried to make it clear that when the machines try to overcome man, and unseat him from the society in which they live, there will be other robots, which respecting the three laws of the robotics of Asimov, especially the one to do nothing to harm the human being, they would try to fight to get the famous and malignant to not take care of the world.
Of course, hundreds of stories and films, from the beginning of science fiction they enter us in the field of thinking machines, including such emblematic series as Star Trek, tell us about humans absorbed by machines that would become part of a half human army, half a machine but controlled its neuronal network by an artificial queen on which everything would depend.
The worlds where these stories develop, in general they are usually apocalyptic, where human rights would not be respected, there is a ruling class, to ideological, which would try to be the hand that the crib mece, that is, to be, allegedly, behind the button that would turn off the fuses in order to control the AI. However, none of those stories ends well. None.
When I write an article about antipsychotic or antidepressant medications, and the damage they make to the consumer, I always look at their contraindications, these being a surprise box, especially when you read that they can cause the same disorders for which they have been prescribed; That is why in an attempt to round this first approach I have asked the generative AI, from now on for us IAG, which thinks about herself and the end of the human race and her response has left me shocked.
Ask: Could ia end the world we know?
Answer: The possibility that artificial intelligence (AI) ends the world we know is a very discussed issue and It depends largely on how technology develops and how its implementation is managed (This bold is mine).
From a more technical perspective, AI has the potential to radically transform many aspects of human life both positively and negatively. Some of the risks mentioned by experts include:
1.- Autonomy of the machines: If AI advances to the point of making decisions (already do) Autonomous without human supervision, they could act unforeseen or contribution to human interests. This could range from the manipulation of financial markets to decision making in military conflicts.
2.- Mass unemployment: With the rise of automation, many traditional works could become obsolete. That could generate an economic and social crisis if the effects of automation on employment are not properly managed.
3.- Autonomous weapons: The use of AI to create autonomous weapons could lead to new types of military conflicts, with a higher risk of war. Some people fear that machines could make fatal decisions without human intervention.
4.- Inequality and control: If large companies or governments control the most advanced AI, could increase the concentration of power in the hands of a few. This could accentuate social and political disappointments.
5.- Existential risks: Some AI experts such as Professor Nick Bostrom, have warned about the risk of creating a superintelligent AI that is so advanced, that their objectives no longer align with human interests. This could represent an existential risk for humanity.
Now, most of these risks are potential and not necessarily inevitable. The key is how we decided to develop and regulate the I. If appropriate regulations are implemented, risks are investigated and ethical and responsible decisions are made, IA could, rather, be a tool to improve human life instead of threatening it.
I have not continued deepening what I could tell me, but with the above, it only gives me to start making my bags and start looking at what flying dish can take me away from this place.
… If appropriate regulations implement you, risks are investigated and ethical and responsible decisions are made … Since when are companies that control AI and what is disseminated make ethical decisions? Since when are those who disseminate the AI and sell their achievements to governments led by deplorable characters, make ethical decisions? Since when are those who control the information and flood the media we read, especially social networks or our own mobile phones, make ethical decisions? Do you know any politician or high business position that makes ethical decisions? Please let me know.
Literature:
(1) Ia. El País, June 26, 2024.
Originally published at LaDamadeElche.com
