Of dinosaurs and men – and AI

Sometimes I feel like I live in a “Jurassic Park” film. If you think it will be a chronicle on the quantity of my children as dinosaurs, you are mistaken (but it seems both fun and precise, so I will have to review this on a later date).

No, I have the impression that I am in a film “Jurassic Park” compared to the trajectory that society is launched with technology and artificial intelligence (AI). Remember how in the original films of “Jurassic Park”, Dr. Ian Malcom (Jeff Goldblum) continues to tell people who blame dinosaurs, then put people in contact with them is the worst idea of ​​the history of ideas? But everyone is like, “No, it will go.”

Then many people are eaten by dinosaurs.

Especially in the second film, Dr. Malcom, because he saw in the first hand what is happening and has specific examples of Dino disasters, continues to ring the alarm that it is a dangerous company of which he does not want to be part.

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We too have past experiences with technology. We can look at the horrors of atomic bombs, the eroding impact of the soul of life in big cities, the dehumanization of people on social networks, the spiritual decadence of a culture dependent on the screen. The relationship of technology is broken. Dysfunctional. Insulting.

And yet, Ingen’s representatives of our time say: “Yeah, but this time, it will be different.” I don’t want to be prosecuted by the velociraptors of driver -free cars. They laugh and say that this is not what will happen. Probably.

Let’s create a disembodied intelligence that will facilitate all aspects of humanity without human being. What could go wrong? Remember in “Jurassic Park: Lost World” when the guy in the camera stole the baby from Tyrannosaurus Rex? He did it to save the injured dinosaur (something about good intentions here), but that led to the hunt for the father and the mother T-Rex and to eat humans.

This is what I would describe as a predictable consequence. But here is the agreement with AI and technology in general: although it has beneficial consequences that are predictable, it also always has harmful consequences that are not. And the two are impossible to separate.

I essentially plagiating the philosopher and commentator of Jacques Ellul technology here (well, not stuff on dinosaurs). He wrote many books in the middle of the 20th century and insisted inside that technology was not good or bad, or neutral. It’s ambivalent. You get good and bad effects with each inseparable technology and technology does not care. We are good to see good things in advance, but bad things are not so easily seen before it is a reality.

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The real problem, however, is that once a technology is introduced, there is no return. A bit like in “Jurassic Park”. Once you have free dinosaurs, you still have free dinosaurs.

Which brings me back to my role as Dr. Ian Malcolm in the 2025 version of “AI: The Future Lost World”. We are incredibly deep in the rabbit hole in life to live thanks to technology. However, somewhere, in our collective memory Addled, there are enough examples of the way our technological society harms humanity that this would give us a break with regard to the last stage of human technology.

People legitimately speak of combining man and machine as this is a desirable objective. And remember, once you become the borg, you are still the borg.

Like Dr. Malcolm, I say it all for the good of your children (first film) and my children (second film).

Children already interact with Openai and have become completely able to use it for school work according to the report The use of Openai falls in summer, when students do not deceive homework. Is this the result we have planned?

Children are already turning to AI to get help instead of their parents. But AI does not give the same advice as parents. Instead, he does this: The study indicates that the Chatppt gives adolescents dangerous advice on drugs, alcohol and suicideAccording to PBS News.

We have not lived with mobile phones or on the internet for long enough so that we can really know the impacts that these technologies have had and that we have on us. However, we are about to open the box of Pandora’s AI as if we know that it will be a good thing.

My favorite quote from Dr. Malcom of “Jurassic Park” is, your scientists were so concerned about the fact that they could or not, they did not stop to think if they should. “”

It would now be the ideal moment to take this wisdom into account.

Harris and his wife live in Pflugerville with their seven children. Please send an e-mail to comments or suggestions for future columns to [email protected] reflections.