How AI Is Taking Over and How Will This Affect Humanity?

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What we are going to discuss is not science fiction but is reality AI is at large taking over businesses and economies that's it's predicted that by 2027 eighty million jobs would have been lost with sixty nine million created by that year amounting to a net loss of 14 million jobs which is 2% of the global workforce.

Below are examples of how AI is taking over the workforce industry:

1. The Automation of Cognitive Labor

Routine Tasks: AI is increasing it's ability over automating tasks that are data-intensive, repetitive, and rule- based- from processing financial transactions and also legal coding boilerplate software. All this leads to massive gains but also a huge job lost in the market business.

Creative Augmentation (Generative AI): The ever increasing use of Large Language Models (LLMs) and image/video generators all means that AI can generate valuable original content (text, code, art) immediately. This means that AI not only becomes a tool for analysis but also has the very state of being a co-creator and producer, definitely making a huge change to creative and knowledge worker industries.

Decision-Making: AI algorithms are more than ever being used to make high-stakes decisions in fields like finance (loan approval), criminal justice (sentencing risk), and Healthcare (diagnose and treatment planning).

2. Pervasive Intergration into Infrasture

Global Systems: AI models handle everything to from energy grids to and supply chains to global financial markets and traffic control. This is making it to where civilization's core infrastructure is becoming more dependent on AI-powered stability and efficiency.

Personalization and Influence: AI is influencing all of major driven media such as politics, YouTube, e-commerce platforms and social media (like for example Instagram and TickTock) all which is heavily consumed by the public.

How This Will Affect Humanity (The Core Impacts)

❤️ The Positive Potential

Scientific Advancement: AI can help with accelerating drug discovery, climate modeling, and material science, hopefully solving humanity most complex problems to a faster degree.

Healthcare: AI can help with creating personalized medication and possibly cures for incurable diseases and help with early detection of diseases and illnesses and better robotic surgery.

End of Mundane Work: AI could help humans be delivered from dangerous jobs and work that put their people's lives at risk like robot police officers or robot construction workers. AI can also help with human jobs that that require unnecessary repetitive tasks making it easier for the co-worker.

Education: AI tutors can provide personal assistance to students (especially those with learning disabilities) to better accommodate their learning processes according to each student uniquely.

Quality of Life: Increased AI productivity can lead to a society where people have less exhausting work hours and shorter weeks to work and focus more on family and personal investments.

The Negative Qualities of Using AI

1. Socioeconomic Divisions and Inequality

Job Polarization: While AI can create new high-skilled jobs it might make it unfair because AI can potentially allow it to choose (based on employment output) who can work and effectively manage AI and who is replaced by AI.

Concentration of Power: The resources (data, computational power, talent) needed to build frontier AI are driven based by a few large tech companies and powerful nations, granting them unimaginable economic and geopolitical power.

2. Erasure of Truth and Trust

Misinformation at Scale: Generative AI can produce highly realistic deepfakes (audio, video, text) which can make it hard to discern truth from falsehood. This can do great damage to the justice system and cause societal untrust.

Algorithmic Bias: AI can learn from historical human data which often contain certain info of disadvantages based on race, gender, religion which AI can learn from these patterns and amplify discrimination creating unfair advantages for certain individuals especially when referring to the workforce industry.

3. The Question of Human Identity and Purpose

Loss of self-worth: If AI can do mostly everything for you it may lead to an identity crisis especially to those who heavily associate parts of their identity to their job or work.

Dependency: As AI gets more advanced so do our dependency on it become more appearant making it hard for us to find any meaning in anything that we do as individuals making a society where individuals don't think or do for themselves but becoming more dependent on AI.

4. Existianal Risk

A Threat to Humanity: Let's say AI becomes so advanced like for example AI finally develops to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) - an AI capable of performing almost any intellectual task a human can - we face the challenge of AI overpowering and harmfully abusing humanity.

Conclusion: The Choice is Ours

AI is not just technology it's the very force that redefining society as a whole and a technology that needs to be used with good intentions and wisely less AI be our downfall with ethical implications but at the end of the day how AI affects us as a whole is up to us.