Is artificial intelligence a danger to humanity? This question, of maximum news, can have multiple answers, depending on who you ask. People like Elon Musk or Bill Gates seem convinced that he will make us all easier, practically without working, and, on the other hand, others think that their job impact will not be much less so great.
However, there is probably much more important matter, and sometimes it tends to be neglected: How will AI influence what could be considered «human experience». It has been a technology expert who has dealt with this topic, and his conclusions are not what is said to reassure.
The social hazards of AI
Maybe Tristan Harris does not sound too much. After all, it is not someone as known as Sam Altman, Elon Musk or Steve Jobs. However, This technology expert has been warning of the dangers that the misuse of this can have in the people. In many cases, it is something that is already being checked on the day to live today.
Harris, in fact, He is known for having focused on something concrete: social networks. That these platforms have changed many things socially, it is beyond doubt, and not always for the better. Can something similar happen with artificial intelligence? According to the specialist, the answer is a resounding yes. Especially if commercial interests over security prevail.
For Tristan Harris, control the ethical impact of AI has to be an absolute priority. Otherwise, consider that human capabilities as important as empathy, attention or decision -making can be compromised. For him, the misuse of technology tends to have a clear consequence: more insensitive people and capable of easily falling into banality.
This has exposed it in a recent talk about AI, in which the technologist speaks of a «career towards the abyss.» In his way of understanding things, the same mistakes that were made in the past with social networks are being committed with artificial intelligence. Only in this case the consequences, he believes, can even be worse. This technology is more unpredictable.
The importance of ethics in technology
In recent years, Tristan Harris has been one of the most critical voices with social networks. He has not had hairs on the tongue in denouncing that these are created to play with people’s attention, endangering the mental health of the individual, promoting hatred and polarizing society. He has even assured that they are a risk to democracy.
One may or may not agree with him, but what is unquestionable is that in an increasingly technological and digital times, knowing the ethical risks of the advances that occur vertiginously seems important. And in that, no one doubts that AI will have a fundamental role.
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