AI is a huge failure, an atrophy of our genius
At the time of writing, no one can say whether the development of AI is a good or bad thing overall. Personally, as a small end user, I find it unbearable to be bombarded with it in terms of purchase or subscription offers. More and more AI for a benefit that, at my level, is close to zero. And yet it costs me more in my digital habits. And for that reason alone, I don't like AI. But we have to think bigger, so let's hope for the best!
But my optimism ends when I see whose hands the development of AI is in. These men (and women, of course) do not seem to me to be serious or reasonable. Some of them, I think, have completely lost their minds, forgetting who we are, where we come from, and what our reasonable future is. In this sense, I think the price to pay for the world as they imagine it is exorbitant, both in financial and human terms.
Ultimately, it is mainly on a philosophical level that this poses a problem for me. AI serves the ambitions of these men, towards a goal that I consider nightmarish: the augmented human, the erased individual, the expendable planet, and infinite conquest. It is a project imagined by madmen who will make us lose what we are ontologically.
Algorithms produce a predictable, standardized, calculated reality, without exuberance or protuberance, without bifurcation or the unexpected, adapted to mass surveillance and formatted for profitability.
Do we want advertisements to be targeted to increase our addictions tenfold and pseudo-informational content to be chosen to reinforce our convictions? Do we want our resumes to be read by machines, global finance to be governed by programs that no one understands anymore?
Do we want our desires to be anticipated so that no excursions outside of expectations can occur?
Do we want our assurances and vulnerabilities to be calculated based on objectified probabilities, our friends and lovers to be selected by standardized filters?
Do we want our creations to be supplanted by interpolations?
Clearly inspired by Aurélien Barreau