AI Post(1)

Ulaş Başar Gezgin, ulasbasar@gmail.com

 

While the advancement of artificial intelligence creates positive developments, we are also moving towards a society structure that is more surveilled and scrutinized. China is leading this. With its social credit system, China is 'correcting' its citizens, spreading surveillance technologies to other countries through trade channels. Artificial intelligence, on the other hand, is indispensable for our lives. For example, when British comedians have a hard time finding a joke, they find the solution by asking jokes from artificial intelligence. Although, it is difficult to say that artificial intelligence is very advanced in this regard. On the other hand, sex robots are coming. We can say, “These will have great effects”. Touchless orgasm technologies are being developed. How come? These are apps that stimulate orgasm regions of the brain. Horror scenarios also attract attention: Awareness of artificial intelligence opens the door to dystopias. However, it is a fact that we are very far from this – perhaps for now. This is not the most dangerous development; artificial intelligence weapons are even worse. These weapons now operate independently, without taking orders from humans. This contradicts the original production philosophy of these weapons. Accordingly, the human hand would have controlled these weapons, but that is not the case.

 

The use of robots in restaurants arouses interest. For example, we encounter the fully automated pizza robot, which reflects all the stages of pizza making and finally produces a delicious pizza. However, in other instances, the fully automated waitress model draws criticism and is not humane. In medicine, aside from some risks, artificial intelligence is making significant progress. It is an ointment for the disabled. But the sociological dimension should not be overlooked in this discussion: Equal access to AI tools is essential for social justice. However, these technologies are quite expensive and mostly serve the wealthy. Maybe for now… In the coming years, such technologies may become cheaper by mass production and enter homes. This brings to mind the sugar and blood pressure monitors, which are indispensable for the homes of the elderly, especially today.

 

Hollywood is on strike. As in a Black Mirror episode, the images of the players will be taken with artificial intelligence and then movies can be shot without the need for the actors. That's why the players are on the street. Meanwhile, the authors are suing AI companies, saying "generative AI is based on our writings." Likewise, painters claim copyrights from AI companies. While all this is going on, we should note that fans of AI, which we might call 'intelligence fetishists', overlook the discriminations artificial intelligence introduces. When data is discriminatory, artificial intelligence also achieves discriminatory results. For example, if women are not recruited before, they are not hired again. Artificial law programs, on the other hand, often criminalize Blacks; because the overt and implicit racism of the American judicial system is reflected in the data.

 

Sociology has already raised warning flags about possible abuses of artificial intelligence. However, unexpected abuses have also emerged: especially in India, scammers are asking for money using artificial intelligence, imitating users' voices and images. Truth and lies are mixed. Faces are changed by deepfake; they are portrayed as doing things that people don't do. We can also associate this truth-lie ambiguity with concepts such as post-truth and alternative truth popularized by Trump. But there's more to it: chatbots like ChatGPT fabricate data and references. It shows research that hasn't been done. Or when you want it to read a poet’s poem, he writes a poem to himself and reads it, and he doesn't even realize that it is his own poem. Our age will be an age where truth and falsehood are intertwined. It is very difficult to prevent this.

 

Against all these problems, various, interrelated concepts have been produced. These consist of examples such as ethical artificial intelligence, responsible artificial intelligence, humane artificial intelligence etc.. But who listens to these suggestions among big companies and big states? Nobody. Therefore, these benevolent initiatives cannot become the norm.

 

The director of the movie ‘Oppenheimer’ relates his film to artificial intelligence and warns against a catastrophic scenario. According to him, at this rate, artificial intelligence will have deadly consequences like the atomic bomb. This is what will happen if the necessary regulations are not made in the field of artificial intelligence. The only way out is for the labor and democracy forces around the world to wake up to these developments and take action. However, these forces have other agendas. It's not time for AI justice. If humanity is to have a future, this has to be the time…