The DANGERS of AI. They’re NOT what you think!
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- čas přidán 5. 09. 2024
- Glen Scrivener interviews Rev Dr Paul Blackham about Artificial Intelligence.
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The thing that worries me is that AI doesn't actually have to become sentient and all that stuff. All that is required is that people have faith that it is. The faith of humanity will give it authority. And people badly want it to become God, so God it will become for many. It will be seen as the one true God.
Excellent point. If we're tempted to make a lump of wood into an idol, how much more...
Paul Blackham: the Brian Blessed of the church. Love him!
What a great video
I'm really glad you and Paul referred to the industrial revolution and the effect on the north. I grew up in one of those old mill towns that the industrial revolution left behind as technological advance went global, and the poverty that has settled in ever since has been devastating (though often forgotten about in light of the appalling conditions within the mills).
My only pushback to anything in this conversation is that I'm really not sure that AI really is that great a leveller. The rate of improvement in automated labour (from self service checkouts to paint sprayers to 3D printers) and LLMs over the next decade, coupled with a truly global, interconnected economy has the potential to be utterly devastating for everyone but the already very wealthy. I think we're seeing this with the dizzying speed at which VC's trying to get onto the AI bandwagon.
I think 'disruptive' could very much be a huge understatement!
Preach!
Sherri Turkle's "Alone Together" , Arlie Russell Hochschild's "The Outsourced Self", Neil Postman's "Technopoly" and Robert Cialdini's "Influence" are helpful in this issue of the invisible impact of technology, whether electronic or sociological.
Thank you, good recommendations!
Good title
Really good discussion. For me, it's not "the agency of its own" that is the concern of AI, it is the invisible influence on human agency. In a world that values ease, comfort, customization and convenience, an AI generated 'Bot can offer a much better experience for me based on my age, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, etc. than real humans who may have a hard-to-understand accent, may be having a bad day, or may be pursuing addition objectives to helping me with my needs or concerns. I will subtly begin to prefer these kind of interactions and be more critical of people who are either less like me or who require more effort on my part. There's nothing malicious going on, no cabal pulling strings, it is simply market forces (providing good customer service at reduced cost) interacting with HPTFPU and our general inability to analyze new technology from I macroscopic view through time.
I recall watching the film "The Gods Must Be Crazy" in 1984 and recognizing the wisdom of the main character's tribal elders who decide that a new technology (a glass Coke bottle) for all of its charm and allure caused more damage to the fabric of their society than its benefits warranted. Or as Ian Malcolm put it, ""Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."
Yes, the problem is *us*.
I think you're absolutely right, we already see this with social media. Why hang out with people who are hard to get on with, with differing opinions and potential awkward moments, when I could hang out online with easy friends who validate all I say and never challenge my thinking?
Jesus: my EVER PRESENT help in trouble 🎉
Paul Blackwell: Lvl 99
Glen Scrivener: Lvl 98
Me, an intellectual: Lvl 3
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A while back, I wrote a story (which is actually available through the post on my CZcams channel) called "The Fall of Mankind," in which mankind is at war with the computers, only for the war to end when mankind realizes that life would be much easier if they just surrendered. Of course, surrendering tp their own creation didn't end well... but I will refrain from spoiling it. I love to see, though, how many others have a similar take on the issue.
I can remember how creepy those scenes in Babylon 5 were when the question was asked: what do you want?
I'm convicted. I often confuse my "knowledge" of the bible with a "quick Google" search of it - and worse, others' opinions and articles on what the bible says.
I can think I'm getting "help" from the bible in this way, and this is good in some ways.
This intellectual "knowledge" tends to stay for a very short time in my head.
This misses the point of following Jesus, which is to knowing him personally, seeing him as our help.
Knowledge about him is inferior to knowing him, though one would struggle without the other.
(Ps, feeling tempted to write this into chat GPT to make me sound more eloquent😂 disclaimer i did use autocorrect on two or three occasions!!🤣)
Haha, yep, the tech revolution is already upon us
I have found via google a far more extensive kind of concordance than that which was printed at the back of my Bible. It is helpful in locating scriptures and cross references in my own Bible study . I am now able to look up the Greek and Hebrew translation to research for myself the original. That's a far cry from being spoon fed. There are times when via google I've had to put in far more time in digging into the scriptures. Of course to everything.there can be a downside and but that's the individual's responsibility to be aware of and not give in to laziness. But that applies to everything.
On a separate issue I feel the guest underestimated the possibility of AI developing to dangerous, indoctrinating and controlling levels. And that danger I think should not /must not be summarily dismissed as just belonging to sci- fi. Many things that in the past were thought to be ridiculous speculation are now a reality. And change is accelarating in pace. Dismissal can sometimes amount to naievety.
LLM’s are absolutely going to change things, but yes, it’s just a technology, amazing autocorrect/autocomplete on steroids so to speak. Linguistically it’s probably a mistake to call it ‘AI’ but I doubt it’s not going to continue to be called that.
I do hope that we Christians will use this technology and help guide its development to ensure it is not built to be biased against us.
Maybe we can resist naming it AI. After all, Twitter shall never be X. Never!
What a great video