«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 him to demand that he go further and write a story, he could not deliver anything that was not banal. How far can your Atuonomia get? What are the threats we face and how to prevent them? Can you put doors in 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 artificial intelligence and human rights.
First, 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 IBM FAUSTS of past decades or later devices for the control of science, the creation of weapons or be part of the life of consumers through increasingly sophisticated devices, embedded in the house of each of us, have assumed our intimacy, while facilitating us to the United States. Life. Frigorific that tells us that buying smart washing machines, which question the decisions we make when it comes to cold or hot water to wash clothes, large computer companies that enter our computer and block us any program so that we can consume the last generation, and therefore a length, etc. without talking about mobile phones If you are not, you are nobody, so constantly repeated when talking about social networks. And this, only in his superfluous. They imagine how AI is developing in the army, espionage, economic war, 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 refund against the AI that controlled the planet. Interestingly, both in this movie and in I, robots, Interpreted by Will Smith, in 2004, it is about making it clear that when the machines try to overcome man and unleash him from the society in which they live, there will be other robots, which respect the three laws of Asimov’s robotics, especially the one that does nothing to harm the human being, would try to fight to fight against the famous and the evil one who does not take care of the world.
Of course, hundreds of stories and films, from the beginning of science fiction we are entered into the field of thought machines, including emblematic series such as Star Trek, tell us about humans absorbed by machines that would become part of a half human army, half a machine but controlled their neuronal network by an artificial queen in which everything would depend.
The worlds where these stories develop, in general, are generally apocalyptic, where human rights would not be respected, there is a ruling class, to ideological, which would try to be the hand that the cradle, that is, that supposedly, behind the button, would turn off the fuses to control the AI. However, none of those stories ends well. None.
When I write an article about antipsychotic or antidepressant medicines, and the damage they cause to the consumer, I always look at their contraindications, 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, who thinks of itself and the end of the human race and its answer has left me shocked.
Ask: Could the end the world we know?
Answer: The possibility that artificial intelligence (AI) ends the world we know is a much discussed topic 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 (I already do) Autonomous without human supervision, they could act unforeseen or the contribution to human interests. This could vary from the manipulation of financial markets to decision making in military conflicts.
2.- Mass unemployment: With the increase in automation, many traditional works could become obsolete. That could generate an economic and social crisis if the effects of automation in employment are not adequately administered.
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 can 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 decide to develop and regulate the I. If appropriate regulations are implemented, risks are investigated and ethical and responsible decisions are made, it could 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, I only give me to start making my bags and start looking at which flying dish can get away from this place.
… If the appropriate regulations implement it, the risks are investigated and ethical and responsible decisions are made … Since when do companies controlling AI and what is disseminated make ethical decisions? Since when are those that spread the AI and sell their achievements to governments led by deplorable characters, make ethical decisions? Since when do those who control the information and flood the means that we read, especially social networks or our own mobile phones, make ethical decisions? Do you know any politician or high commercial position to make ethical decisions? Please let me know.
Literature:
(1) Ia. El País, June 26, 2024.
Originally published at LaDamadeElche.com
