Introduction
In recent years, we have been told by many that AI is the new revolution
in technology, being compared to steam and computers [1]. Although from
a technology and science point of view, this may be the truth. But from a
sociological and even political point of view, some may see this as the fuse
starting the collapse of Western civilization as we know it. It may sound too
drastic, but considering how AI managed to become such an important part of
our lives in such a short time period [2], its negative effects can become very
dangerous.
AI is Harmful to
Our Children
One of the most discussed fields that AI has influenced is education. Many
students, both in high school [3] and at universities [4], already use AI for school.
It started innocently, children helping themselves with AI, when they can not
find some information, or they need more context on the topic. Many discussed
how AI can be integrated into classes, being a helpful tool for students and
teachers. But students realized that AI can be used for more than just checking
grammar, finding some context, or helping to solve their school problems. They
realized that the AI can do the work for them; they only need to write a proper
prompt, and the chatbot creates an essay on a given topic in seconds. And
not only essays, but chatbots could easily help with statistical work, economic
problems, science, and even math in some cases. Suddenly, most students use it
to help them generate and improve their work [5], and some take it even further,
using AI to think, unable to do that on their own [6].
Lately, we have been witnessing a growing problem of children being addicted
to social media, especially to short (shorts) videos, which started as a trend on the platform TikTok, later introduced on all Google and Meta platforms. Even before we discussed the so-called ”brainrot”, content aimed at our dopamine
receptors and fully locking in our attention. [7] Accessibility to creating easily
and visually engaging content has become so widespread, thanks to AI models,
even individuals without prior experience in video editing and animation could
create these shorts, flooding social media already full of senseless content [8],
deepening the problem even more.
Our Culture
AI, apart from creating texts and scripts, can and usually is used to create
images, videos, and/or music and other forms of media. Now, anyone with a
computer can create a piece of art on any topic with no skills and in no time,
flooding the internet and making differentiation between AI ”art” and art made
by an artist, who gave it their time and experience. Making it difficult for the public
to keep pace with the artistic world, and making the distance between these
two parties even bigger. The general public has no idea what real and fake art
is, and is less incentivized to support real artists and their projects.
Adding insult to injury, many of the tech companies creating their own AI
models use art as the training data, often neglecting any copyrights [9] [10].
This goes against the laws that general people are punished for.
Our Security
One of the most dangerous threats AI is to us, that me and others se is its
ability to jeopardize our security. The data we give to companies running AIs
should have been encrypted and secure, but as we have seen, this is not the
case. Many companies collect data not only to save it, but also to sell it
and/or use it for further training [11] [12]. This can be especially dangerous,
considering how much information and personal data we are giving to these
LLMs. A good example would be a trend where people ask ChatGPT to draw a
caricature of themselves based on what ChatGPT knows about them. Many of
the people, including some in my social circle, have done it, and the caricature
was terrifyingly accurate. Meaning the ChatGPT has a lot of information
about us, which can be sold. This problem only deepens when you realize that
many people use AI as a friend/ lover or therapist, sharing the most intimate
information about themselves [13].
The second threat to our security from an AI is the uncertainty of recognizing
what is real and what is not in the investigative media space. Especially in
public opinion matters. AI can be used to create the ”real” footage of something
controversial and then use that to alter the public opinion that matters. Or this
can be used for softening the impact of some serious news or information using
the ”flooding the zone method”, by creating much fake news, letting the true
ones get lost inside this media mess.
Our Freedom
The underestimated effect AI has on our daily lives is the danger it poses to our
Freedom. AI companies, using data from anything ever put on the internet, it
has enough information to be able to recognize individuals from each other, and
not only from face but from other characteristics of our looks and behaviour [14].
This can become very dangerous, and especially vulnerable to a state regime
with bad intentions.
Having as many public space cameras as we have now, even adding private
camera systems [15]. Then the power-holding group has full control over public
space, able to identify people on the street in seconds, connect their location,
behavior, and public speech to their internet history, and fully combine that
information into a single big database [17]. This has already been used in the
USA at ICE protests, especially in Minnesota [16] [18]. Consequences of this
problem stretch into an unthinkable and horrifying 1984-style dystopia, where
the state or any other power group may control every second of your life without
the need for thousands of employees and time to process the data, but have
everything processed and stored in seconds. Of course, this dark paranoia is
still far from our present day, but if left unregulated, such systems could pose
significant risks to civil liberties in the future.
Conclusion
As all arguments and realities mentioned in the paragraphs above may sound
like a solid case supporting the ban of all AI. Make no mistake, most of these
problems can be easily controlled, even with the legislative system we already
have. This text just expresses already existing threats being posed by AI in
everyday life. AI definitely has its place in humanity’s future, but as is my
belief, only in controlled cases, like medicine or scientific research. We should
just be aware of the possible results of any AI innovation in every field and think
about what this may mean in the near future.
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