Political world erupts as AI researchers warn of ‘extinction’ threat. A researcher at the artificial intelligence company Anthropic offered a bleak prediction late Tuesday that the systems the company is racing to build carried the risk of causing human extinction, reigniting a debate about the gravest dangers that future forms of the technology could pose. (The Washington Post)
I know this paragraph sounds a wee bit overdramatic. Human extinction, come on. But take a moment, inhale, and as you slowly release your breath, wonder and ask the question: well, why not!
I am a fan of anything science fiction. I applaud the authors and screenwriters who, as they present their fictitious plots, have actually predicted future worlds and universes where bad things have happened at the hands of those who seem to base the future good of humanity not based on the good and welfare of the people, but on how much profit can be made off of those people.
Technology is not always bad, but as I see it, technology created to increase the profit of those who support it, placing greed above morals and values, is, for me, like creating an uncontrollable monster.
AI may have its usefulness, but as it is being created, do the inventors and investors consider its exact impact on the everyday person? Sounds wonderful that computers can make our lives feel easier, but in doing so, what is it about our everyday lives we now must relinquish?
If you have watched or read movies or books about the future, in which corporations suddenly play God-like roles, where the rich get richer, and anyone else is treated like chump change, most likely you have come to the conclusion that, in fact, civilization has become doomed. The haves have more, and the have-nots have even less.
