DISADVANTAGES OF AI's EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW THAT CAN KILL HUMAN CREATIVITY AND UPSET ORIGINALITY

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Although AI can have a positive environmental impact, for example by enabling smart grids to match electrical demand or enabling smart and low-carbon cities. However, one of the disadvantages of artificial intelligence is that it can also cause significant environmental damage due to intensive energy use. A 2019 study found that a particular type of AI (deep learning in natural language processing) has a huge carbon footprint due to the fuel the hardware it requires.

As artificial intelligence plays an increasingly greater role in everyday life, its potential effect on society and our everyday lives is an issue we all need to know and discuss

>UNEMPLOYMENT; there are many fears now that in the next 10 to 20 years many will be jobless why because AI's must ahve taken over,questions about which jobs will be replaced by machines in the future are being raised. Some experts point out that potential shifts in occupations are imminent by 2030, estimating that between 75 million to 375 million workers (3 to 14 percent of the global workforce) will need to switch jobs and learn new skills. This shows a large gap in predictions, ranging from optimistic to very pessimistic.

>LACK OF TRANSPARENCY; it can lead to lack of transparency reason being that, Al can be faulty in many ways which is why transparency is extremely important. The input data can be riddled with errors or poorly cleansed. Or perhaps the data scientists and engineers that trained the model inadvertently selected biased data sets in the first place. But with so many things that could go wrong the real problem is the lack of visibility: not knowing why the AI is performing poorly. Or sometimes not even that it is performing poorly. In a typical application development, there is quality assurance as well as testing processes and tools that can quickly spot any bugs.

> PROFILING; AI can be used to build frighteningly precise profiles of people. Algorithms are developed to find patterns, so when testing their abilities in gathering personal data in a contest, it became clear that they were able to predict a user’s likely future location by observing past location history. The prediction was even more accurate when also using the location data of friends and social contacts. Sometimes this disadvantage of artificial intelligence is downplayed. You might think that you do not care who knows your movements, after all you have nothing to hide. First of all, chances are that this is not completely true. Even if you do not do anything wrong or illegal, you may not want your personal information available at large. After all, you would not move in a house with transparent walls. So is it really the case that you do not care about sharing your device’s location history? How about your teenage daughter’s location history? Would you really be comfortable if someone published her location data including predictions? Surely not. Information is power, and information we give up is power over us.

> DISINFORMATION; A rise in disinformation is a disadvantage of artificial intelligence that we are already witnessing. In 2020, the Activist Group Extinction Rebellion created a deepfake to produce a fictional speech by Belgian prime minister Sophie Wilmès. The group took an authentic video address made by Wilmès and used AI to manipulate her words. The result: disinformation. In the fake video Wilmès can be seen talking about Covid-19, claiming that the pandemic is directly linked to the “exploitation and destruction by humans of our natural environment”. Unfortunately, this hasn’t been the only case. Because of this kind of scenerios people will not be able to differentiate between fake and true news.

>ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; Although AI can have a positive environmental impact, for example by enabling smart grids to match electrical demand or enabling smart and low-carbon cities. However, one of the disadvantages of artificial intelligence is that it can also cause significant environmental damage due to intensive energy use. A 2019 study found that a particular type of AI (deep learning in natural language processing) has a huge carbon footprint due to the fuel the hardware requires. Experts say that training a single AI model produces 300,000 kg of CO2 emissionsroughly equivalent to 125 round trip flights from NYC to Beijing or 5 times the lifetime emissions of an average (American) car. And the training of the models of course, is not the only source of emissions. The carbon impact of the infrastructure around big tech’s deployment of AI is also significant: the data centers need to be built up, and materials used need to be mined and transported.

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  • I think that whoever puts artificial intelligence data to imitate and steals it without the permission of its owner must be punished so that he does not continue in this work.
    There are drawbacks to using artificial intelligence, including... giving personal interest over the public interest.
    . The robot, for example, has become widespread in a form very similar to the human being, man and woman, and this is proven by the robot (Hanson Sophia).
    This threatens the person as a person
    If the capabilities and efforts of a person are waived and a robot is taken as a replacement, there are dangers knocking on the door of unemployment, the spread of diseases, rapid aging, and a lack of orientation to education, because a person will say to himself that he has no work and there is an alternative.
    It must unite together to work out a balance between man and his mighty capabilities and artificial intelligence.

  • I completely agree with you that AI can have a positive environmental impact, but it can also lead to significant harm to the environment due to its high energy consumption. The study you mentioned highlights the importance of considering the environmental impact of AI as we continue to develop and implement these technologies. It is essential to find ways to reduce the energy consumption of AI systems and promote sustainable practices that enable us to harness the benefits of AI without harming our planet.

  • Uh-uh, I don't think that's true! Artificial intelligence can actually enhance human creativity and originality by providing different perspectives and innovative solutions to problems. AI can assist humans in generating new ideas and improving upon existing ones.

    Plus, humans still have the ability to control and guide AI technology. It's not like robots are going to take over and start creating without any input from humans. We can program AI to follow certain rules and parameters while still allowing for creative expression.
    I think AI can be a useful tool for enhancing human creativity and innovation, as long as we use it responsibly and thoughtfully.

  • I think that AI is extremely dangerous. This kind of technology is so powerful that it's actually worrying. For example, back to your profiling argument, I totally agree. Collectively, as a nation, or even people of the world, we MUST find a way to create something which can completely shut off the effects of AI such as tracking and location predictions. Perhaps this could be optional so users can decide whether they want to turn it off or not. Despite absolutely agreeing with you on amazing on argument about someone being able to see their teenage daughter's location history, I believe that it is still super important that people are able to choose what they want to do. Even though it is for the benefit of everyone's safety, it is still their privacy, and as people, we all deserve to have the right to control our own affairs.

    However I also understand that it is important for technological advancements to take place and develop over the course of time. Where would we be now if the computer hadn't been invented? But the way we are headed has taken a dark turn. The society we live in now is crowded with AI EVERYWHERE. There is so much of it that it becomes hard to breathe. We need to control technology as a whole and make sure that we are the ones who are using it, not it using us.

    I also feel that the Government should take a much larger role in this. From what I have seen, they do not seem to be making any efforts to tackle this issue. This is really disappointing; as our leaders, they should be concerned about the welfare, safety, and security of their people. This issue is HUGE, and we need their support to solve it. If the government promotes a message, then they can get a lot of supporters, and make the subject known. But we can't wait for the government for ever. WE need to stand up. WE need to resist. If that's not enough, we have to find our own way to stop this.