AI Won’t Destroy Your Life — Unless You Let It |
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AI Won’t Destroy Your Life — Unless You Let It
Humans, as reflective and deliberative beings, get to decide what to do with AI.
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There are many reasons to be worried about AI. It will potentially put millions of people out of work. It’s a threat to the environment, the American landscape, and our electrical grid. It portends the end of internet anonymity. It will ruin the music industry. It will, we fear, attain consciousness, rebel against us, and kill us all. Even the pope is warning about it.
As impressive as artificial intelligence has already become across a variety of disciplines, from computer science to medicine to architectural design, for anyone who has sought to incorporate AI into their workflow or solve some problem around the house, it can still be, well, less than intelligent. It gets the answer wrong and hallucinates, often disastrously so (in part because, as they say about data, “garbage in, garbage out,” and the internet has a lot of garbage). As much as The Terminator, Blade Runner, and The Matrix series provoke endless nightmares of a future sentient robot apocalypse, the fact of the matter is that whatever real threats AI poses to human flourishing, it cannot and will not ever be human. Here’s your cheat sheet as to why.
First things first, we need to appreciate what makes the way we think particularly human. As Paul O’Hara and Steven Umbrello argue in their new book, Can AI Ever Be Human? Consciousness Explored, human knowledge begins with what philosophers call “empirical consciousness,” which involves becoming aware of objects through our........