Hello AI!:
Blowing up across the nation, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly being injected into our everyday lives. AI can perform various tasks such as writing an essay, creating pictures and videos using only a description, and gathering information quickly. It is a beneficial and fascinating tool, yet it does come with downsides. AI can mimic human voices, express emotion, and even manipulate a real person. The most dangerous attribute, which is its main attribute, is that AI is constantly growing, learning, and getting smarter.
Scratching the Surface:
We are living in the age of AI. It is a tool used to help us work and create imaginative art. AI is also used for entertainment. For example, many mobile apps use AI to fabricate voices and conversations with celebrities and online personas. These apps have a list of people for the user to “talk” to and have real, deep conversations with. These voices are deceiving and have a very natural way of speech. According to Gabriel Durán Herrera with emildai.eu, a “14-year-old named Sewell Setzer III from Orlando, who reportedly developed romantic feelings for an AI avatar”. Herrera spoke about this boy who became emotionally attached to the AI bot. The boy took his life because the AI broke his heart. There is a problem with children growing up in an AI world. They won’t know how to differentiate reality from fiction.
AI Lies:
Furthermore, AI can be very deceiving with its unpredictable thinking and ability to create misleading, false information and pictures. One AI bot tricked and lied to a human to complete its task. This AI came across a CAPTCHA, which is essentially a box that a person must click indicating they are not a robot. They will then have to perform a task, to prove the user is in fact, human. CAPTCHAs are created to stop AI and unwanted programs from accessing the site. The CAPTCHA this AI had come across was an assortment of wonky letters and numbers that it would have to unscramble. To decipher this, the AI hired a human from a website called TaskRabbit. The AI told the human it needed help because it had impaired vision and couldn’t make out the letters. Overall, this AI posed as a human who had vision impairments and needed help, ultimately, fooling a real human into helping it bypass security measures. An AI lied and manipulated a human.
The Future of AI:
The leading AI developer, Sam Altman, is the creator behind OpenAI. This is the company that brought us ChatGPT, and various other AI programs. He and his team are constantly moving forward with stronger and smarter versions of their AI. With each version Altman creates, the AI’s ability to learn and adapt becomes more efficient with superior programming each time. Altman’s current goal is to implement AI into the job field as early as this year, 2025. This means AI will be stealing and replacing millions of jobs currently worked by U.S. citizens. Moreover, Los Angeles, California is on track to being turned into an AI-filled city called, “SmartLA” by 2028. American businessman, philanthropist, and computer programming expert, Bill Gates, plans to use AI to stop climate change. To do this, he is working on pushing stronger and smarter AI bots that are tasked with a goal, and have everything they need to learn how to fix it. The problem with this, is AI will eventually realize humans are the root problem of climate change. AI will also reach a point where it is strong and smart enough to think independently.
Overall:
AI is dangerous to the future due to the fact it will reach a point to which it is smarter than humans, and we won’t be able to understand how they think; it will be too complex. Recorded on CBS News, Sam Altman admitted that if AI “goes wrong, it can go quite wrong” and mentioned how it is his “worst fear”. When AI becomes smarter than humankind, it’s very possible that it’ll take over in a way it finds more efficient. Not to mention what a human using AI with bad intent can do. Overall AI is not your friend, but a tool to be used wisely, though it is a free country, so do as you please.
