Through the Iron, Bronze, and Nuclear Ages, we have now entered the Artificial Intelligence Age. The advent of AI-based language model tools like ChatGPT, and Google Bard has started this new era. Artificial intelligence will redefine the future. AI has started being used on a large scale in every field ranging from business, education, e-commerce, and governance. Parallel to this, the dangers related to artificial intelligence are also coming to the fore.
A few days ago a picture of the US Department of Defense i.e. Pentagon was going viral very fast. In this picture, a cloud of smoke was visible rising above the Pentagon. It seemed as if someone had made a big attack there. As soon as this picture surfaced on social media, there was an earthquake in the American stock market. This news was covered by many big digital news websites around the world. However, later when it was investigated, it was found that it was an AI-generated picture.
Another example is that of Donald Trump. A few months ago, some pictures of Donald Trump went viral on social media, in which he was shown getting arrested. After seeing these pictures, many people were convinced that Trump had indeed been arrested. However, it was later revealed that this too was created by AI. The thing to note is that these pictures looked so real that it was very difficult to differentiate between them. With the advent of artificial intelligence, disinformation is spreading rapidly in the society. Not only this, information is being manipulated and served in society.
Billionaire businessman Elon Musk, famous author Yuval Noah Harari, and many AI scientists, CEOs, and founders of companies issued an open letter in the month of April in view of these dangers related to Artificial Intelligence.
In this open letter titled "Pose Giant AI Experiment", it was clearly written that the best quality and powerful AI systems should be created only when we are sure that they will have a positive impact on society. It was also written in this open letter that artificial intelligence competing with human intelligence can give rise to many threats to humanity and society.
Not only this, AI-based chatbot tools can promote misinformation in society. It can be used to serve political interests, which will have a bad effect on democracy. This will increase polarization in society. Today, AI research labs are capable of doing anything. In such a situation, they should be investigated and they should be banned as soon as possible.
After this open letter, the governments of many countries of the world have become very serious about AI. Italy has banned the Open AI company from collecting data related to its country.
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