So what's so bad about using AI any way?

[werdna]

DU is an image rich forum. Many posters however use GenAI images. Here are a couple links that explain why this may not be the best thing to do, especially if you consider yourself a supporter of human rights and the environment.

Generative AI ethics: 16 biggest concerns and risks, By George Lawton

As adoption and use cases grow, generative AI is upending business models and driving ethical issues such as misinformation, brand integrity and job displacement to the forefront.
https://www.techtarget.com/searchenterpriseai/tip/Generative-AI-ethics-8-biggest-concerns

18 Risks and Dangers of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Written by Mike Thomas
AI has been hailed as revolutionary and world-changing, but it’s not without drawbacks.
https://builtin.com/artificial-intelligence/risks-of-artificial-intelligence

[Matthew28]

1. A.i is here to stay

It would be like being against the factory in 1820, Electricy in 1900, the car in 1910 and the computer in 1990.

Society progresses and that is the way it is. I find it useful in many areas and I use it daily.

[cayugafalls]

3. I completely agree.

You could no more stop AI than you could keep the caveman from using the rock as hammer...

Peace.

[Fiendish Thingy]

15. AI would be easy to stop

Just block the construction of data centers and refuse to allow the existing ones to use to power grid.

Starve the beast.

[Fiendish Thingy]

16. Using AI requires unquestioning trust and a suspension of critical thinking.

AI only makes things easier if the user trusts that it is infallible.

[cayugafalls]

2. I wrote a paper 35 years ago called the Technology Rock...

I was writing LISP back in the 80's which is the precurser programming language of AI.

Like any tool, it is the user that is the danger...a hammer in the wrong hands can cause mayhem just as easily as AI.

I use AI as a tool, it has no problem being told you are using it like a tool, so turn off the personality and just answer the question.

Those who master the tools of their era will be the masters of that era as has always been the case.

Peace

[Roy Rolling]

8. This 👆

This was true 35 years ago and it’ll be true forever. The tool isn’t the problem, it’s the tool-bearer.

Like any technological advancement, applying the most advanced technology to antisocial and evil purposes is a risk. That risk is heightened when the the technology is controlled (or uncontrolled) by unqualified people.

It’s bad enough selling guns to everyone, imagine if everyone had the right to own an atomic weapon? A.I. cannot be un-invented.

But it must be guided and used for the benefit and not the detriment of society. Not for the sole benefit of A.I. money-grabbing corporation CEOs and shareholders.

[msongs]

4. the problem with AI is separating fact from fiction and knowing what is real vs fake

[ThreeNoSeep]

6. That's not an AI probem

Telling truth from fiction has been a problem since humans started communicating.

[Blue Full Moon]

5. All of the GNP is data centers.

The centers are using our water that we all need to live on. It's stealing the electricity and infrastructure with zero benefit except the billionaires who built it. They will kill thousands. But then there is Bezos, that human water consumption is limiting AI's potential. Surprise is any jobs are very temporary. AI and robots and humans are not needed. This tech every single one of us paid for. We paid for the companies. Most through CIA and In-Q-Tel. Every single one us should be living off of it. The robber barons need to be ended. Corporate personhood should have never been.

[DFW]

7. Interesting theme

I don't (knowingly) use AI at all. I don't even know how. I'm sure my company does. With a 25 man IT department, I have to assume it would be impossible to maintain their work without it.

Nonetheless, our activities depend on people, period. We are still hiring and expanding. When I joined in 1975, we were maybe twelve people in out early twenties. At 23, I was one of the older ones. Today, we are over a thousand people worldwide with very little turnover. To my knowledge, every single one of us is a living person. Max Headroom doesn't even visit. On my visits back to Dallas, I meet with real people, not zoomed images. I suppose the day is coming when AI will be combined with 3D printers for artificial people as well, but we're not there yet. Maybe, after Trump, the Republicans are hard at work on it. I'm sure the image is to their liking, but the odors perceived in proximity would be eliminated with the AI version. They could probably even program him to remain awake and speak English, although that would be a dead giveaway that something had been altered.

[ShepKat]

9. never used it, and feel no attraction to do so

I won't even click on those youtube links with the misleading AI graphics to 'entice' viewers.

I'd rather use my brain, critical thinking skills and heart.
Not into relying on something that can be tweaked and manipulated by nefarious others.

I won't own a spy phone either.

Altho, It has promise in some specific 'channels' like detecting disease in medical situations.

[Scrivener7]

10. Thank you! I saw an interview with a former AI developer

who stopped when he realized where it was headed. He said AI is a species, not a technology. And it is a smarter species than we are. Think of what we have done to the species we outrank in intelligence. He said if we are lucky, we'll end up as pets to AI.

The same day I read that, I read about an AI agent which bought itself a robot so it could interact in the physical world.

AI is the devil.

[Polybius]

12. "I read about an AI agent which bought itself a robot so it could interact in the physical world"

That kinda cute actually!

[Polybius]

11. I think DU is much more anti-AI then the general population

I don't believe it relates much to politics either. Instead, I think it's more about age. DU primarily consists of older individuals, and from what I've seen, the majority are Boomers, with a significant number still belonging to the Silent Generation.

On the other hand, Millennial and Gen Z members of DU, who generally favor AI, are still a minority here. As for Gen X, their opinions vary; however, it's often the early Gen Xers (those born in the 60s) who tend to be against it.

So combine early Gen X, Boomers, and Silent Gen, and you get the vast majority of DU. For what it's worth, I'm a mid-range Gen Xer that uses AI almost daily.

[Emile]

13. After you work all day talking to an algorithm, will it still remember to pick up milk?

[Fiendish Thingy]

14. AI destroys critical thinking and makes the whole world dumber and more pliable for the oligarchs. Nt