The most frightening things that are coming down the road to me are not AI or fake news. It's the inability to spot fake news due to lack of any critical thinking skills. But this brought to you by the public educational system that has people believing $140,000 facebook ads by content farmers in Montenegro stole an election. On top of which we are blaming that on a candidates loss, stopping any mandate after a president (like them or not) has endured the exact intolerance, big brother facist-state tactics that Dick Cheney and George Bush Sr were accused of. Rather than say there was some push back to how the national propaganda syndicate shovels this garbage and people finally put their foot down amazingly enough in a national election and those who sat on their thumbs during the last presidential administration now all of the sudden are outraged in international affairs? That, to me is horrifying.
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THIS !!!
"the inability to spot fake news due to lack of any critical thinking skills"
Also, go to the past myth of "The Emperors' Apprentice" (Disney's Fantasia) - smart and intelligent humans are creating tools that no human has enough "wisdom" to properly supervise and put to use. As in, "Be Careful What You Ask For: You Just Might Get It."
Educationally, I am seeing a lack of desire to voice challenging opinions. I had a recent discussion about how public education is being privatized, not for higher principles, but for commercialism. We definitely need to respond early to these challenges.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts @cryptkeeper17. I appreciate it a lot.
I see those two things quite related. With advanced AI it will be simply much easier to create and spread fake news.
Can you imagine that right now AI could already create 'fake' video of your favourite influencer in which he would make some fake statements, which could affect your financial decisions.
Indeed it is horrifying. I hope I can spend my old days living in some remote 3rd world country, disconnected and off-line. Far from all upcoming mess.
Yours