Beyond the Narrative
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16th June 2023
Is AI making us dumb? Breaking the Socratic cycle
New, mysterious technologies are a blank canvas for us to project both our greatest hopes and our worst fears.
AI WILL BECOME UBIQUITOUS, IS THAT A GIFT OR A CURSE?
From extending our capabilities and creating our Utopia, to being an existential risk to civilization, opinions on the best and worst of AI couldn’t be further apart.
As the technology becomes more engrained in our society, many have vocalised concerns that reliance on AI will reduce our need to think for ourselves and lead to the dumbing down of us humans (‘Homo sapiens’ being derived from ‘Human’ & ‘Wise’ for those who enjoy irony).
But this all sounds very familiar…
Many inventions throughout history were forecast to undermine our intelligence and impact culture.