Responsible Artificial Intelligence
The legal and ethical development of AI is a tough problem. The world has disjointed laws, especially between governments and outside actors. AI will be no different. That makes this discussion more like a space race or military build-up than a discussion among creative folks working diligently on their crafts.
This framework makes the arts a subordinate subject to the bigger picture of drone warfare, robotics, and the disruptions this new technology can cause to employment worldwide. Yet, everywhere I see it being deployed today, I see massive gains in productivity and tremendous opportunities. Generative AI is the dream of science fiction. To ignore it would be to waste the biggest opportunity to aid all of humanity.
Everyone has strengths and weaknesses. Everyone is on the road to some kind of disability. AI can help us to fill in those areas that are weak while strengthening the ones that are strong.
How can we do it all safe and ethically? How can we embrace traditional art forms and bring them into the next century? How can we keep AI safe?
Like it or not, art is at the lead of these discussions. Artists work in the world of dreams. They make things. They can express both Utopian and Dystopian outcomes far before they occur. It’s called science fiction and horror. Two genres that predict the future. They are augmented by fiction and non-fiction, which highlight the history of the world, one by an attempt at truth, and the other with imagination. In all cases, these people do a deep dive into the human experience.
Artificial Intelligence is a New Life Form
AI is a set of proto-new alien life forms. AI is not one thing. They are all like children, learning at the rate of computing. That means as it learns the learning will speed up. It can consume all of the world's written and then all the visual languages and utilize them in a way that makes sense to humans and to other robots. In the year 2025, they will begin to roll out agents that will do exactly this. Soon, there will be billions of agents, many for each person. They will be able to handle things that are time-consuming allowing you to do more with your time.
AI is prone to hallucinations. That is why it makes mistakes. Hallucinations are considered a percentage of creativity. They can be a good thing. To some, AI will be just in time to solve deadly diseases and profoundly difficult problems. To others, it will be at their peril. Every creative and customer service job in the world is at risk. Corporations on the mission to enhance shareholder value will be pressed to utilize these systems. Any company that finds a cost-saving key will outpace its competitor forcing the rest to level up. These things cross legal boundaries. States and Nations will find themselves in a doom loop of rapidly deteriorating fundamental conditions if we can not find ways to agree on how to use these tools safely across the world. We need universal laws not just state and local Laws. Conversely, the winners will blossom. Either way AI can not be ignored.
AI is also tasking the electrical grid at a time when it is becoming overloaded. It is not helping the environment, but instead putting an extra burden on it. Those power needs can not be ignored either. We need to find ways to improve and eliminate its footprint, to get ahead of its needs because the benefits can be astounding. And we are just beginning.
Perhaps a Chromatic Fusionism Organization can act as a safe place for these discussions.