As Karl Manheim and Lyric Kaplan warn in a disturbing article in the Yale Journal of Law & Technology about the risks to privacy and democracy posed by AI,
“[a]rtificial intelligence is the most disruptive technology of the modern era… Its impact is likely to dwarf even the development of the internet as it enters every corner of our lives… Advances in AI herald not just a new age in computing, but also present new dangers to social values and constitutional rights. The threat to privacy from social media algorithms and the Internet of Things is well known. What is less appreciated is the even greater threat that AI poses to democracy itself.”
After 30 year career in Information Technology I seem to have gained immunity to scare stories or predictions of a Cyberutopia based on the rise of “digital authoritarianism” or “algocracy—rule by algorithm.”
Digital authoritarianism, as the Center for Strategic and International Studies cautions, is a threat which involves the use of information technology to surveil, repress, and manipulate the populace, overriding human rights and civil liberties, and corrupting the foundational principles of democratic and open societies, “including freedom of movement, the right to speak freely and express political dissent, and the right to personal privacy, online and off.”
Did somebody mention Digital ID and fifteen minute cities?
How do we protect our privacy against the growing menace of technological overreach and the usurpation by a technological sector working with the government or our liberty and personal sovereignty?
The ability to resist the march of the technocrats may already be out of our hands.
In 2024, at least 37 US federal government agencies ranging from the
Departments of Homeland Security and Veterans Affairs to Health and
Human Services reported more than 1700 uses of AI in carrying out their work,
double from the year before. Likewise British and European governments began to openly discuss how AI could be used to improve heathcare, monitor criminal activity, eradicate tax evasion, suppress dissent, clamp down on 'hate crime' and advance 'net zero' agendas.
That little list does not even begin to touch on agencies and NGOs that did not report their usage of AI technologies at local levels.
I take issue with the use of the term “Artificial Intelligence” as
well the notion that the machines make “decisions” . As soon as we
adopt the language of the propagandists we endanger our own human
consciousness and awareness, especially if we use the terms the machines
come to produce and replicate. Pull the plug on digital machines by
refusing to think and speak in techno promo terms.
What’s shocking that there is so little opposition to imposing AI authority over people. As long as AI is assigned neither authority nor credibility or infallibility but solely advising role danger of enslaving people is not as huge or imminent although still eminent.
However the real problem is that people surrender their moral autonomy that gives them unalienable right/responsibility to investigate reality in order to draw conclusions by themselves and deny themselves moral authority of ethical judgment of such conclusions in context of our humanity.
If people totally blindly resign themselves to human authority they will easily embrace AI authority as by either they abandon their own moral autonomy and authority.
So it’s not AI technology that must be targeted but any attempts to give it authority that overrides human authority and any credibility that overrides human credibility which we know is fallible and which essentially what makes us human.
For example AI face recognition of a suspect should have no more perhaps less legal weight than suspect identification by a witness which testimony we know may be mistaken or deceiving. So AI should be assigned such deceiving quality as well simply because it’s based on statistical models producing not accurate but approximate outcomes within defined margin of error.
And please stop using term Artificial intelligence (just AI technology) as after three thousand years of philosophy trying to define it we still don’t know what human intelligence really is.
AI is a current buzzphrase but has little tangible meaning, computers are not intelligent, they cannot reason or indulge in abstract thought, nor can they truly generate original content. All AI systems do is parse data, match strings and identify patterns, just like the first computer I worked on in the late 1960s. My program was loaded from punched paper tape, the machine had 128k RAM and we programmer / operators ran around like ants on speed changing disks and mounting or demounting tapes. Today's supercomputers are have gigabyes of memory and are immeasurably faster but work in exactly the same way. And though they can parse millions of words in a fraction of a second they still do not have a clue what any of those words means. Artificial Intelligence is as incapable of extracting meaning from a sentence, paragraph or article as any mechanical device made of cogs and springs. And when nerds talk of their AI systems 'creating' content what the software does is simply disassemble, then reassemble bits and pieces to come up with something not new, not original, but edited differently – i.e. synthetic art, plagiarised texts, ….?
I still think we have more to fear from the living beings, whatever “they” are, who are driving us towards this artificial world than any computer. Just like we need not fear the gun, but the mindset of the human who operates it.
We, as a culture, are so far removed from ever addressing the causes of knife crime that is epidemic on the sreets of our cities, that there are now moves to ban knife sales to under 18 year olds because of the knife attacks that have been occurring in some sections of society of late. But how can any intelligent being think banning sales of knives to certain democraphics as a solution, when any steak knife from home would do the same job, and instead of taking a closer look at who we let into the country.
We need an urgent solution to how we can rid ourselves of these human and non-human parasites that are enforcing all of the smart machinery. But perhaps I am missing the point, what if The Powers That Be, having finally understood that machines can never be intelligent in the way humans are, now plan to achieve their goal by making humans as dumb as machines are.
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