Question
Does the potential of AI to improve our lives and boost economic
growth outweigh the ethical and socio-economic concerns, or should we be more
cautious in the adoption and development of AI?
☆Let’s Think
Do research on the following questions and discuss them with others.
1.
What is Sophie’s point? Provide
a case in point.
2.
What is Liam’s point? Provide a
case in point.
3.
Who do you agree with? Share
your opinion.
☆Hints for Points
1.
In “2001: A Space Odyssey”,
Stanley Kubrick shows how a computer program kills humans when it takes humans as
obstacles of the task it has been programed to do.
2.
No one knows how artificial
intelligence works, including scientists.
3.
In 2015, world-renowned
thinkers cautioned us about the threat of AI. According to them, since AI
evolves much faster than humans, it is highly likely that we will lose control
of AI in the future.
4.
Military use of AI needs
caution. Autonomous weapons must be banned.
5.
It was thought that computers
are more morally correct than humans, but it has been known that they learn
prejudice through interactions with humans.
6.
AI is a machine. It does not
have the same biological body we have, so it will never have the same
consciousness or workings of mind we humans have.
7.
People often prefer to interact
with humans rather than to do it with machines.
8.
AI will do supplementary jobs
such as routines and dangerous tasks.
9.
AI is an enhancement of our
brain activities. Like other advanced devises such as electric dictionary and
smart phones, our productivity will rise through the use of AI.
☆Responses for Ideas
and Expressions
Response 1: I’m all for utilizing AI in various aspects of our
lives, because it performs much better than humans in some types of tasks. I’m
not concerned about job displacement very much. AI needs human operators to
watch and manage it. For example, in hiring, AI that sorts out job applications
before the human resources manager interviews the applicants choses photos of
the same type of faces that look like those of successful applicants in the
past based on its data input. An AI-robot hotel in Tokyo, although it enjoyed
many visitors who love to see new things at the beginning, started to hire
humans several months later because of malfunctions and lack of flexibility. As
long as we watch security issues related to AI, there is no need to worry about
it replacing us in offices. (136 words)
Response 2: My fear is that AI can transform our mental conditions. In
“Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”, Phillip K. Dick predicted a future
where androids are so similar to humans as to make it difficult to tell the
difference. Although humans can tell that androids lack something human, androids
sometimes act more humanely than real humans. This causes confusion in daily
lives and also it makes us ask what humans really are. He also predicted a
world which is run by singularity, an entity with consciousness in a network of
computers. There, humans are not allowed to make decisions. Although these
things are yet to happen, I feel changes are already happening in such
situations as AI translate a foreign language much better than us, making us
lose confidence in ourselves and feel dependent on machine translation, hence loss of creativity resulting from loss of free workings of our mind. (150 words)
☆Response plan
Topic Sentence:
Supporting Details:
Conclusion:
Write
your response in 10 minutes. Show each other your responses. Write down
questions or suggestions to each other’s response.
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