[Netease Smart News, May 10 News] Artificial intelligence (AI) and other innovative technologies are known as the greatest human survival threat ever, or human savior.
Both of these dramatic performances ignore such a point. The history of disruption of science and technology is as old as the history of human development. What also has a long history is our negative reaction to change.
Critics warn that an out of control artificial intelligence may threaten humans. Supporters refer to this process as “creative destructionâ€, which means that artificial intelligence will refocus human energy on more complex issues while increasing productivity and benefiting consumers. The supporters further pointed out that history has proven that mankind has withstood numerous wave of technological disruptions and continues to thrive. However, we may be at a turning point.
Although the creative destruction can be understood in history, the technological subversion promoted by artificial intelligence may also be a wake-up call for us.
Here are some trends I have seen:
1. Artificial intelligence can obtain real-time global data and transfer wealth from local workers to a distant entity. This will also bring about the redistribution of wealth. Google's advertising technology is a good example, because Google products affect global advertising professionals, but their wealth and the largest workforce are concentrated in Silicon Valley.
2. The ability to learn from massive data means that the speed of technological disruption has accelerated, and the adjustment of new jobs has far exceeded the speed of retraining and improving the skills of employees.
3. The artificial intelligence closest to proprietary data will win any commercial war. This means that some AI companies will show a winner-take-all situation. This tendency to create monopolies will further increase the rate of job destruction. (For example, in the local economy, how many retail jobs were lost due to the existence of Wal-Mart?)
The result of this perfect storm will be that the middle class will continue to shrink, and the concentration of wealth will be even higher than we have already seen. Some people may say that these are excellent conditions for large-scale social unrest. Although the trend of artificial intelligence is unavoidable, we have the responsibility to choose applications that enhance the skills of workers instead of replacing labor.
We call this type of artificial intelligence “enhanced intelligence,†which is the twin brother of artificial intelligence. Although both techniques use algorithms and data to perform various tasks, there are still differences in the types of tasks they perform. For example, the key to enhanced intelligence is to identify the desired output and then use technology to help workers produce better, faster, cheaper products or services. Enhanced intelligence can help taxi drivers drive multiple forms of auxiliary vehicles to ensure their safety. However, if you use this technology to replace taxi drivers, this will no longer increase human intelligence. Artificial intelligence is replacing humans and will have negative labor impacts. I believe we will need some time to rediscover this balance.
At the same time, we need to fundamentally solve the problem.
Treat artificial intelligence as a mechanical skeleton
Artificial intelligence solutions should be focused on how to make employees more powerful. In this case, the artificial intelligence is regarded as human's auxiliary mechanical skeleton, not the robot. Amazon's recommendation engine uses artificial intelligence to help us shop for merchandise, not to replace our decision. I am not asking people to stop making robots; instead, I am advocating to focus attention on artificial intelligence technology in solutions such as outer space.
Creating the Hippocrates oath for artificial intelligence
We need to train the next generation of computer scientists to understand the impact that their technology will have on society and create an oath similar to Hippocrates, the ethical oath that doctors have traditionally done. In such a world, computer scientists need to be taught to fear invisible hands. You cannot let them give up their responsibilities. The AI ​​on artificial intelligence will guard against this.
Improve skills training
The company or the government needs to bear the corresponding expenses for improving skills training. We cannot just agree that greed is good, so that companies do not have to invest in worker skills training; and the government is a small government, so it should not be such an investment. Otherwise, this will only lead to the concentration of wealth and the destruction of work. The goals of all companies should create wealth for shareholders, and the government needs to take care of their citizens—if neither situation exists, we cannot thrive. All of these have brought us back to a new concept of artificial intelligence: enhanced intelligence.
All discussions about singularities and robotic threats ignore the real danger: the disappearance of the middle class and the emergence of mass unemployment. Instead of imagining a war with robots, it is better to think carefully about our own human strategy choices.
(English source /venturebeat compiler / machine Xiaoyi proofread / æ™— ice)
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