With the recent proliferation of these Artificial Intelligence and technologies, I personally believe that the world is not yet ready for such a level of sophisticated technologies as we have seen with the chat GPT 4 and this could be disastrous.
Google and Microsoft are currently the leading competitors, aggressively competing for who to unveil the most sophisticated of them all, but no one, not even the CEOs of these AIs or their creators can assure the world of the safety of mankind over these technologies; there are numerous risks associated with these technologies and these risks outweigh their rewards and that is what is getting me scared and worried.
Most people have been looking at it from the perspective that the only disadvantage mankind will suffer is the loss of jobs to these technologies but there are numerous other disadvantages that could be more disastrous compared to a loss of jobs.
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Some of these robotics have the propensity to go rogue and we have witnessed this happen on many occasions; their creators sometimes lack the capacity to control them; this itself is a great problem.
Have you as well considered the amount of data that will be harvested from humans? The social media data harvest spree that we are currently complaining of will be like child’s play compared to what new and coming AIs will do. This new technology can be harvesting data that is as ridiculous as when partners have sex with each other and be selling such private data to the highest bidder.
Moreover, there are yet strict government compliance laws or regulations in any part of the world that can force these AIs and their creators to be law-abiding; not even the United state nor any other leading world power is yet to make legislation to catch up with the legal compliance of this AI; Nigeria itself is even yet official recognize that there is a new bad boy in town called AI for them to start deliberating on how to introduce regulations and legislations to make it safe for user citizens.
Let me not even get started with the amount of false information that an AI like the ChatGPT 4 feeds its users. I’m a regular user of the ChatGPT and every person who uses that technology constantly can attest to the fact that a high percentage of information and data that the site fetches you are false and they feed users this false information boldly. These technologies have as well made mankind to be lazy, too lazy to verify information; once the information is coming from a trained and programmed AI people tend to believe whatever information they provide without engaging in their own independent research.
Let us even talk about the obvious risk associated with these AIs which is the Loss of jobs. Everyone can guarantee that with these new and upcoming AIs, there will be a massive loss of jobs which will in turn create economic hardship that will destabilize the world economy. With the population of the world constantly on the rise, jobs and employment ought to be on the high rise in the same propensity; the last thing that should happen is for one technology to replace hundreds of human workforce and get them fired.
Nobody’s job is safe; your job is not safe, and neither is mine. Your job as an auditor, an accountant, a coder, a project manager, a lecturer, an actor, a musician or whatever job you do or however you rate yourself as being valuable or indispensable in your organization or field, think on it again and you will see that technology can be trained to snatch your job; if you still doubt me tell me what you do or the nature of your job and I will tell you how technology can replace you with a snap of fingers. Even as a lawyer, despite how technical my job is, my job is already at stake. A Robot has been trained to go to courts, represent clients; collect briefs from clients and provide legal solutions to legal problems.
I do not want to sound like a conspiracy theorist but from the look of things one can say that these tech creators have some other hidden agenda apart from the pecuniary agenda which is to enrich their pockets, they might have an agenda which could be to introduce and establish while destabilizing the old order. I will be here to let you know how it unfolds; it will be a wild wild ride.