Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Living in the Age of AI Blog Post #10

In class the other day I had the pleasure to be immersed in a video that brought a new light to artificial intelligence. The video was called In the Age of AI and it was produced by Frontline who put together a pretty eye-opening production. The documentary starts with Google software Alpha Go in which in the game Go AI was able to beat the world champion Lee Sedol 4-1. We saw this complex use of artificial intelligence and it started the wave of AI trying to go further then it ever has before. 
Privacy is the main thing that is harmed by the growth of AI. With these major companies in the Silicon Valley, their main goal is to learn as much as they can about the consumer. This may be the Google home taking information that is heard and using that to make predictions. This is a positive that your life may become easier with items being suggested that we were just talking about in the living room. When I think about what the technology and AI did I become worried. Maybe too comfortable with technology that I let them listen and learn to everything. 
Not only is our privacy threatened, but the biggest point that piqued my interest was automation. Here we saw full factories and grocery stores that were being run and packages packed by all AI. This causes the  almost silent job loss, it is the silent killer of the jobs we have left in America. Between offshoring and automation there will be zero jobs left in America and the lower class will become more dependent on food shelters and social workers portrayed in the video. After all, I think it is up to human beings to step away from technology and AI to start learning how to do things again before AI takes over. The thought has already been out there with movies like i,Robot. As people let's not let it happen. 


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