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If that’s the case, there is something fundamentally wrong with our societies that don’t value people enough to prioritise their care.
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Some applications of AI impact what it means to be a human being by diminishing our minds, relationships, freedom and privacy, moral responsibility, our sense of what is real and the dignity of work.
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t is true that more people are becoming aware of the dangers of some applications of AI like Social Media but they are deliberately exploiting our vulnerabilities, especially of the younger generation. However, there are many other applications of AI that are hidden, such as their use in credit checking and building a profile of you from your internet activity.
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The inherent bias of data sets used in AI algorithms training can result in some groups or individuals being treated unjustly or without redress by human arbiters.
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Deepfake is a term used to describe the creation of fake artefacts, usually people, based on learning from images and speech of the real person. Various well publicesed examples have been around for a few years, such as the Channel 4 production of a fake speech by the UK’s Queen, broadcast at Chritmastime in 2020. Various politicians and celebrities from Barak Obama, Mark Zuckerburg to Tom Cruise have also suffered from being used in deepfake videos (Creative Bloq). The algorithms are also being used to bring people “back from the dead” by using old recordings and images to create interactive avatars of people who have died. Perhaps the most famous example is a recreation of Salvador Dali as a host for the Dali Museum in Florida.
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It depends what is more important, economic growth and technological prowess or human flourishing. If we reduce human flourishing to economic prosperity and all that it confers, then humanity will be impoverished in terms of rights such as freedom and privacy, dignity, justice. Would we rather be poorer but freer and happier, or economically richer but a dumbed down human being.
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