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?
（Class on the implications of artificial intelligence）
☆Let’s Think
1.
Paraphrase Sophie’s point.
Provide a case in point.
2.
Paraphrase Liam’s point.
Provide a case in point.
3.
How do you feel about a baby raised
by an AI nanny and taught by AI tutors? What causes the feeling?
☆Hints for Points
1.
AI is useful in doing complicated
calculations to tackle the challenges like climate change and food and water
shortage.
2.
AI has exponentially advanced
various areas of our life such as the Internet, healthcare, transportation,
communication, architecture, music and art, and financial and retailing
businesses.
3.
AI is an enhancement of our
brain activities. Like other sophisticated devises such as electric dictionary
and smart phones, our productivity will rise through the use of AI. It can also
finish routines many times faster than humans.
4.
It is said that you can learn
with a human tutor twice as faster than when you learn alone while you can
learn four times faster when you learn with an AI.
5.
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. In 2025, “Godfather of AI” also expressed warning.
Specifically, he is worried about its military use such as autonomous weapons. He
is also concerned that a change may occur suddenly in a very short time before
we know.
6.
Surveillance programs with AI
have killed countless innocent people in Gaza in two years since 2023.
7.
Data on the Internet is free to
use for AI.
8.
No one knows how artificial
intelligence works, including scientists. What it does is unpredictable. It
works exponentially faster than humans and it can work non-stop.
9.
AI doesn’t care about life. It
can destroy life to carry out its objective. 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.
10. It was thought that computers are more morally correct than humans,
but it has been known that they learn prejudice through interactions with
humans.
11. AI jobs lack human-touch. It lacks empathy. It is unable to make a
joke. It does not have the same biological body we have, so it will never have
the same consciousness or workings of human mind.
12. In hiring, AI that sorts out job applications before the human
resources manager interviews them 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.
☆Response for Ideas
and Expressions
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
translates a foreign language much better than us, making us lose confidence in
ourselves and feel dependent on machine translation; hence loss of our creativity
can result from loss of free workings of our mind caused by AI use. (156 words)
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