A report from the Davos Forum says that 14 million jobs will be lost in five years and that humans will go from being responsible for 66% of all work tasks performed now to 57% because 43% the rest will be done by the machines. The trend is unequivocal and there is no turning back. Artificial intelligence (AI) will revolutionize our lives and it’s good to know that. As the philosopher Yuval Noah Harari says, this tool “will have an immense influence on our views and conceptions of the world”.

The new oracle will tell us what we are interested in, should read, buy or visit because it will know us better than we know ourselves. If today we no longer need to memorize phone numbers because they are on the smartphone or we don’t worry about how we get around by car because the assistants show us the way, the risk of definitively suffocating us with a system that will write us down to lighter messages is very great. Some series or fiction books already prepare us for this coming world and we have seen how the machines select which is the most suitable couple or which political party we should vote for. Let the oracle decide for us, as the robot already recommends today which books or series best suit our personality.

The issue of information manipulation is already present and it is not science fiction. In social networks there are already bots with false information that even try to falsify headers like ours to try to give more credibility to the lies they invent.

In this initial phase of AI there are two clear tendencies: the optimists, who assure that humanity will be able to correct the vagaries of AI, and the alarmists, who, like the historian and philosopher Harari, claim that the its obligation is to warn of the dangers it can generate. A summary could be that AI is a threat, but also an opportunity. And we should take better advantage of this second option and limit as much as possible all the dangers it may entail. So that you understand me, AI should be used to improve our daily lives and solve such futile things as today, in the middle of 2023, an elevator can be repaired for a whole year. Let the AI ​​come and fix it.