Artificial Intelligence: path to progress or a techno-dictatorship?

josevas217 (79)modin Project HOPE • 2 days ago

Hello, Project HOPE friends, good day everyone. I hope you're all well. Today I want to talk about a topic that's been on my mind for quite some time. It was after a video I saw that discussed the problems of artificial intelligence and how it could trigger a Third World War. I think this topic may also cause some concern for many of you.

Beyond how useful and fascinating it may seem—it automates processes, improves medical diagnoses, generates texts like this—*, there's a less visible side that worries me: the risks posed by its excessive use, and how this could lead to something that's already beginning to be called a techno-dictatorship.

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Yes, AI makes many things easier, but it can also become a dangerous tool if we give it the power to decide for us. We're already seeing how governments, corporations, banks, and technology platforms are beginning to use it to make decisions that were previously in the hands of humans. The problem? These machines can become so complex that even those who programmed them can't fully understand or question them. Today, it recommends a series on Netflix, but tomorrow it can determine whether you get credit, medical treatment, or whether you're a "risk" based on your political opinions.

And no, it's not science fiction. In China, for example, there's a social scoring system based on algorithms that decides which services you can access based on your behavior. This is a techno-dictatorship: no longer a person decides, but a code that no one chose and that few understand. The most disturbing thing is that these systems are trained with data loaded with biases, prejudices, and errors that the AI simply replicates, without questioning anything.

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Who controls that? Who oversees what an AI "learns"? And who takes responsibility if something goes wrong? Technology advances faster than the law, and often by the time we want to regulate it, it's already too late. Big tech companies have too much power, and that power doesn't always serve the common good. That's why it's so important not to be dazzled by every new advance without first considering its consequences.

Perhaps the key lies in this idea: it's not up to us to stop the advance of AI, but our response is. We can inform ourselves, question, demand ethical frameworks, decide what we use and how we use it. Because if we don't, one day we might wake up and realize that it's no longer us who decide, but the algorithms.