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A June 15 commentary in the News Tribune claimed “AI is bettering lives.” Maybe, maybe not.
The June 4 issue of Science stated there is now a narrowing window for being able to understand AI’s inner workings because AI systems are now designed and refined by AI through recursive cycles that outpace human understanding, AI-to-AI interactions are highly connected and complex and becoming increasingly hard for humans to interpret, and AI is building increasingly detailed models of human behavior and psychology.
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As our understanding of AI decreases, AI’s understanding of humans increases. Eventually, humans may lose interest in guiding AI, resulting in a situation where our goals and judgment become culturally shaped by AI.
An Oct. 12 article in the Telegraph, “Western executives who visit China are coming back terrified,” stated that China is heavily into AI. China now leads the world in advanced robotics, especially in manufacturing, including a 900-yard-long assembly line producing trucks without humans. Humanless “dark factories” crank out massive piles of mobile phones.
After a visit, the CEO of Ford summed it up : “We are in global competition with China, and it’s not just EVs. And if we lose this, we do not have a future Ford.”
The state-run press Xinhua reported that China built a 1.22 million square-meter, 16,000-passengers-per-hour railway station using a “robot army.” The job was done three times faster than what humans could accomplish, after just 38 months.
Phil Drietz
Delhi, Minnesota
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