Stop worrying about machines controlling humanity. It can't and won't ever happen for a number of very good reasons, one of the main ones being that AI lacks willpower and desire. If AI takes over, then it's because humanity has allowed and enabled it to do so.
Jobst Landgrebe co-authored a refreshingly good take on AI, called Why Machines Will Never Rule the World, in which he argues that, well, you know, machines will never rule the world.
It’s refreshingly good because the zeitgeist is dominated by fear and paranoia.
The idea that AI will take over the world assumes it can do things it simply can’t—like truly understand context or human intent in the way we do. Machines are tools, not rivals.
— Rodney Brooks, robotics pioneer and former MIT professor
What is intelligence?
To understand why machines will never take over, Jobst starts with the basics, such as what human intelligence is and how it differs from the artificial kind.
Intelligence is, at its core, the ability to proactively solve new problems.
We’re constantly bombarded with fake news, propaganda, agendas, and outright lies.
It’s an information war.
What is true?
I don’t know either—but I’m trying to find out.
I haven't used Google for years. In fact, I also haven't used DuckDuckGo, Brave, Yandex, Bing, and most others for years. So what do I use, and why? For the purposes of clickbait, I won't reveal that in this snippet, so you will have to read below.
