The Four Great Dangers of Artificial Intelligence

Technological advances have created new opportunities for invention, adaptation, and progress throughout history. But they have already caused irreversible damage to many human lives as well as means of life. On the other hand, they have tested the extraordinary capabilities of human beings and societies to adapt to the chaos of transition, and to survive what economists call “creative collapse”.

Now the world must be prepared for a technological progress, the effects of which are great, and that is unfolding at a speed that has scared even men and women who have spent their lives preparing the ground for this overthrow. For better or worse, Artificial Intelligence will transform our lives so fast and so fast that we have no choice but to prepare ourselves and each other for the consequences.

There is no doubt that there will be medical and scientific advances. Those who have access to AI's most powerful tools will have the opportunity to live longer and healthier lives. But we must also prepare for dangers. The four most important are dezinformation, spread, shift and replacement.

Dezinformation

Without a continuous approach to accurate and verifiable information for citizens, consumers and investors, there can be no democracy or free market capitalism. The birth of false social media and information that have generated the latter has already poisoned public attitudes towards institutions of all kinds. The inclusion of Artificial Intelligence will add a wide range of nonhuman voices, which are preplanned on conversations that shape political life in every country of the world.

The ease with which malicious political actors, criminals, and terrorists can create false videos that will deceive even the most sophisticated audience will make it much harder for political leaders and those who report news to build and support credibility.

China, Russia and other authoritarian states will develop more effective forms of digital propaganda, which will undermine freedom in deep and unprecedented ways, and sell these technologies to any government willing to pay.

Spread

In recent years, the problem that technology has brought about and which has most concerned political debate within democracies is the gathering of data from online activity to its impact on privacy. But Artificial Intelligence is a democratized technology.

Powerful technology companies that have managed to dominate our lives on the Internet can establish rules and guidelines for the use of products they create. To some extent, they can follow those rules. However, Al's models that are almost as advanced and more powerful than general-use algorithms even a few months ago are already available to anyone who has minimal programming skills and a laptop computer.

I personally know some people who are already using large linguistic models, which use available information publicly to produce large amounts of text. Very soon millions of people will have their GPT operating with real-time data and online access.

It is a powerful tool that individuals can use to create useful new things that open up new scientific and artistic terrain. But it is also a weapon that fraud political actors, criminals and terrorists can use to code viruses, create biological weapons, manipulate markets and poison public opinion.

It is true that authorities can use AI to create more effective tools to control these crimes. But governments have never faced such a widespread threat.

Without a continued approach to accurate and verifiable information for citizens, consumers and investors, there can be no democracy or free market capitalism.

Displacement

We know that the intense development of Artificial Intelligence will shift an incalculable number of workers, as machines are replacing people, even in the most specialized sectors, to such a degree that most of us until recently thought impossible.

It's true we've seen these ruins before. The rise in global trade in recent decades has eliminated millions of jobs in the production sector in countries where workers earned relatively higher salaries as factories moved to developing countries. Then automation moved them further.

In both cases this process generated much greater productivity and wealth on a global scale, creating more jobs than extinction. But it takes time and resources to retrain workers, and to create sustainable social protection for those who could not adapt.

And the shift caused by the expansion of Artificial Intelligence will hit more workers in more countries and much faster than anything the world has experienced before. This revolution in the workplace will create economic and political turmoil on a scale for which multinational national governments and institutions are not prepared to manage.

Replacement

Soon people will learn more about direct communication with cars. Instead of going back to simple weather - forecasting robots, we're going to rely on the complex machines directed by God for complex interactions, even to keep us company.

We already know that overuse of social media can produce anxiety, depression, and even self - injury among teenagers and isolated adults. This problem will become much greater as more people with an antisocial disposition build increasingly sophisticated machine relationships.

This is the biggest challenge of Artificial Intelligence, for which policymakers are less prepared. Nothing separates us from these dangers, except technical barriers easily resolved, as well as time. Each of these will have to be addressed within families and communities, among public and private sector decision-makers. Revolution has already begun. The world..