Blog 10: Age of AI

We live in a time where technology is something that is so strong in our society. It has infiltrated everything that we used to think of as being self-sufficient. From class work when we break down the use of chat gpt to the supermarkets where there are becoming less and less workers being physically in the stores. This in itself is such a scary feat to consider and be able to take in general. The 1 hour and 25 minute mark of the video is what made me really realize the treacherous waters that we are in. It was said essentially that the power AI holds is something that is at a rising boiling point. At the current moment, the use is in a relatively solid state where it is being used to help a lot of people although we have those who use it for ulterior motives like in the education setting. 

The part that speaks to me and scares me is that it was said that the power of AI is so expensive on the flip side, that if someone who controls the tools of AI does not have the interest or values that are essential to sustaining something as big as our democracy and how we run as a society then we are all screwed in one way or another because as much as it has the power for good it also has the power to completely demolish what little semblance of a balanced and safe society we have left. I ask myself the question of how can we stop the power of AI? How can we rein it in to not be controlled but be better monitored because of how dangerous of an effect it could impose? These questions for many raise the opposite end that it is in fact doing good for us so we should let it run as it runs for now and with that I can see the appeal. 

AI, surprisingly enough, is truly enhancing that of privacy because it is a fully automated system for the most part that can monitor things in the background and safe guard against those privacy concerns. I believe this fact to be the same with national security and identity and/or personal security too based off the fact that it is always in a state of constant monitoring. AI has some good aspects to it but we cant discredit the fear and the turmoil that it could and is almost surely going to cause.