As I said, if we were in Heaven, I’d love a little AI companion to talk to me and be useful to me. I can only imagine how productive I could be if I had this AI companion helping me accomplish my work. It is not beyond me what AI could do.
However, I don’t trust the system. I do not believe for a second that, on this side of eternity, that those who are developing AI will be able to resist the opportunity to corral people into approved thoughts and words. Absent AI and you have big government lovers using laws to corral people and punishing those who won’t be corralled. It will be just much easier to do this with AI scanning 8 billion people every single minute of their lives.
The technology itself, I could trust. But I cannot trust those who own the technology.
I dissent, in part.
The vast majority of statistical models used in industry aren’t designed by some evil leftist trying to crush individuality. They are developed overwhelmingly by people who want to do a good job. There may be “bias”in the model, eg a sales forecast maybe optimistic, a cost estimate may be conservative, but on balance, few people walk to work thinking “ I really want to sideline ____ people.”
Once we leave the world of commerce and the market, and enter the realm of God and man, I’m in lockstep. Indeed, on FR I am astounded at the schizophrenics who declare “You can’t trust polls” unless it shows Trump up by 7%. A model built by conservatives will have their biases baked into those models.
Even in Religion….a ChatGPT built on The Bible will reflect the angle of the developer…a Catholic, Calvinist, Puritan, Druid etc. bias.
Again, I pray that humanity becomes aware of these biases and doesn’t surrender their reasoning skills.