The following post raises some important
issues in the era of artificial intelligence. Technology is progressing every day.
Even with technological innovation, the human factor would remain key to
technology’s proper use and contribution to individuals and a society as a
whole. BTW, while reading this post, what has come to my mind is that Korea is
one of a few countries which has achieved economic development through high-tech
industries. Several critical questions
arise as to the role of technology in ordinary people’s wellbeing in terms of
economic choice and liberty as well as in social wellbeing. This would also lead to the question of the
purpose of nation in the context of economic development.
From Zero Hedge:
One researcher is warning everyone that “we are setting ourselves up for technological
domination.” Dionysios Demetis warned that algorithms are
“using and even controlling” human beings.
Humans are surrounded by algorithms and
one researcher is not all that thrilled about the future prospects of
technology and its grip on humanity.
“Our exploration led us to the conclusion that, over time, the
roles of information technology and humans have been reversed,” Demetis,
a professor at the Center for Systems Studies at Hull University in
Yorkshire England, wrote in an
essay for The Conversation.
“In the past, we humans used technology as a tool. Now, technology
has advanced to the point where it is using and even controlling us.”
This is not the first time Demetis has tried to warn humanity of
the problems with advanced technology either. Demetis built on a paper he
published last year with Allen Lee, a professor at Virginia
Commonwealth University, in
the Journal of the
Association for Information Systems. The researcher
also contends that we are in fact “deeply affected by them in unpredictable
ways,” and humans made it that way.
“We
have progressively restricted our own decision-making capacity and allowed
algorithms to take over.”
Demetis says that the worst case scenario would be a complete
takeover of machines and artificial intelligence. Already, most of
the trading in foreign exchange markets is determined by algorithms that
call the shots within tiny
fractions of a second as opposes to humans, who are now seen as an “impediment.”
“The
people running the trading system had come to see human decisions as an
obstacle to market efficiency,” Demetis wrote. Lawyers
are also being replaced by
artificial intelligence and some recruiters have an over-reliance on third-party tools to “weed
out bad candidates.”
This can set up humanity for a bleak and dystopian future where
we will have no control over anything – machines will make all of our decisions
for us. “We
need to decide, while we still can, what this means for us both as individuals
and as a society.”
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