A report from the Davos Forum ensures that 14 million jobs will be lost in five years and that humans will go from being responsible for 66% of all work tasks that are performed to 57% because the remaining 43% will be done by machines . The trend is unequivocal and there is no two ways about it. Artificial intelligence (AI) is going to revolutionize our lives and it is good that we know it. As the philosopher Yuval Noah Harari says, this tool “will have an immense influence on our opinions and conceptions of the world.”
The new oracle will tell us what things interest us, we should read, buy or visit because it will know us better than ourselves. If today we no longer need to memorize phone numbers because they are on our smartphones or we don’t worry about how we get around by car because the assistants show us the way, the risk of finally becoming bored with a system that will compose even the lightest messages is very big. Some series or fiction books already prepare us for this coming world and we have seen how machines select which is the couple that is best for us or which political party we should vote for. Let the oracle decide for us, as the robot already recommends today which books or series are best suited to our personality.
The issue of information manipulation is already present and it is not science fiction. Bots with false information are already rampant on social networks, even trying to falsify headers like ours to try to give greater credibility to the hoaxes that are invented.
In this early stage of AI there are two clear trends: the good guys, who claim that humanity will be able to correct AI’s delusions, and the alarmists, who, like the historian and philosopher Harari, claim that their 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 all the dangers that it may entail to a minimum. So that you understand me: AI should serve to improve our daily lives and solve things as futile as today, in the middle of 2023, an elevator can spend a whole year under repair. Let the AI ​​come and fix it.
