'AI Won't Replace Us'
As AI continues its tidal wave through every workplace, more and more voices are warning of its dangers: its tendency to replace us at work, and the possibility that it could wipe us out if an AI ever hallucinates while talking about Chernobyl. by Otoko Dashi
In the 1980s, the democratisation of the personal computer, the PC, was supposed to lead the world to apocalypse. Nuclear, sanitary, biological. An apocalypse of fire and blood, triggered by some potential blunder worthy of the worst Hollywood productions of the era. Instead, we got global warming 100 years ahead of the IPCC's schedule.
AI is a tool I like very much. It allows me to produce volume in a society that industrialises everything, content production included. Faster and faster, and more and more of it. Freeze-dried quantity. I can't see myself writing instantly consumable content by hand. You can rest assured that what you are reading comes from a human being: AI doesn't yet feel the bitterness and other emotions that drive me to write.
I find it very funny that the people who cause your burnout are the ones who now fear the disappearance of humanity. You killed the human, and now you're afraid that AI will turn against you. It's like a serial killer who is afraid of being murdered, or of being upstaged by someone more efficient than him. The world of plagiarists is in turmoil, and the journalists who lifted ideas from my tweets want to help you develop your critical thinking. Watching the general panic is thoroughly gleeful, though even if it earned me something, I don't feel any sense of revenge. Man is too paradoxical for a rational tool to understand.
Rie Kudan
Recently, a Haitian citizen turned out to be an AI agent that had infiltrated the literary world to pass itself off as a writer. That might give ideas to Rie Kudan, the magnificent Japanese author who, in her latest prize-winning novel, gave AI a role.
You won't catch me saying that AI is a tool that depends on its user. This text doesn't deserve such a mediocre conclusion.
