Artificial Intelligence and Our Humanity

We read and hear about it everywhere these days.

You hear people saying, The future is now.

We must give way to technology.

We'll be much better off and live better lives (not even work) when we allow AI take action.

Yes, technology is here, and we are living at the dawn of the era of AI, and it's a topic that we have heard and seen a good deal more about this season.

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I wonder what the chances will be for the average individual. You know, the individual who's not the founder of Facebook, Google or Amazon, which have placed such high barriers to entry that it will be rare for companies to break into that stratospheric league.

What's Going to Happen with Humans?

Can you wonder what's going to occur to the average individual? As a businessman and social entrepreneur, the truth is that if you are taking a look at things in a just bottom-line manner, utilizing AI could earn a whole lot of sense. They never get sick. They work 27/7/365. They never stop and can indeed produce more than any human could --in a life. From a pure dollars and cent  standpoint, AI can earn a lot of sense.

But then you must wonder about the wider implications of AI, and I sense that society hasn't even started to receive its head round the implications. If you pay a little attention to the news, then you understand that a few months past Facebook engineers closed down and pulled the plug on AI that decided on its own to go ahead and develop a new language. It had been more effective for them to receive the work done, but people did not understand. It seems that the language was fundamental, but what happens if the AI had not been shut down? Would they've developed a highly sophisticated approach to communicate and function that entirely excised human?

I agree that technology can be beneficial to society. I think most people would agree that we'd prefer to send a bot to a dangerous situation, state war, rather than ask our people to put their lives on the line. I think there is something to be said for its rapidly expanding role of robotics in medicine. For example, the very fact that we have started to publish human organs together with 3D is a substantial improvement, and we must expect that many lives will be spared.

My concern as I dig deeper into the problem of AI is exactly what the consequences are for the human race, and yes, that even includes how we in the sector connect with one another and with the world we serve. As I noted in the preceding post I wrote, the Partnership on AI, that will be a collaborative effort between mega-companies such as Facebook, Apple, Google and leading non-profits such as UNICEF and Human Rights is attempting to direct the dialogue about the consequences of AI in all of our lives.

If you tune in a little bit into the conversation concerning AI, you know that we have to deal with many problems, including a number of these:

Security: We do not want to be in a situation where AI is generated, and it is not required to protect human life.

Transparency: We had the recent situation with Facebook in which they shut down AI, but who rules (government or business) when someone says & Houston, we have a problem"?

Labor and the Economy: Whose responsibility is it to train people as AI grows and what will their work acts be in light of a much more powerful AI partner?

The reality appears to be apparently developing that there aren't many places --if any--that AI will not touch.

Humanity's Competitive Advantage

While I read about issues related to AI, I think about one thing--humanity. I think we all have to get into the dialogue now about the implications of AI. I'm someone who likes and appreciates individuals just because we are imperfect. AI cannot enjoy, demonstrate courage, hope, dream, feel fear, etc..

In my head, these attributes are what makes humans so far better than AI. There is something intrinsic within people (some call it a soul or spirit, others relate with the scientific dots of all of the elements which constitute our brains, hearts, and bodies) that make us distinctive, and yes, actually exceptional.

We have a serious dialogue that needs to take place about AI, but it involves all humans, and we have to pay attention before we've got a situation we did not bargain for in the era of technology.

The Path to Humanity as it Greets AI

In a lot of ways, I expect that AI starts to break down the things that divide us and we find that as humans, we are all exactly the same. We are. Take the issues of race, faith, gender and everything else; we all bleed red.

We all hurt.

We all hope.

We all dream.

How I view it, the time is for humanity. It can be our finest hours in the dawn of a new age--we all get out of our own way and take part in a global dialogue about humanity in the time of AI.

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