Humans have come very far from basic tools for hunting and gathering to tools that can shape and bend the environment to our will. But somehow we always forget to also turn inwards and self reflect and question that whatever we are doing is the right thing to do. Our morals and ethics have improved significantly throughout history but this always came with a great cost often paid by the weak and marginalized. "Laws are often written in blood.".
AI is not going to one day magically wake us up to being better human beings as that change comes from within when one is faced with horrors. The greatest example of all is we are living through a genocide that is being live streamed to the whole world while so many rules were put in place to prevent those very actions that would only perpetual the cycle of trauma. Governments didn't lack tools or AI, as many tools and rules are already in place like international laws and accords to make them act accordingly when faced with this great horror but they lacked humanity to enact and use those tools. Instead they looked on pacifically.
Now companies are again convincing us of their sale pitch of how a new shiny tool would make everything better so humans can be saved from themselves meanwhile they are selling these same tools to the very people and organizations that are committing said inhumanities.
We do not need more and better tools or AI sold under the guise of improving safety and security to fix humans we need more self reflection and humanity to make this collective home a better place for everyone. We might be ruled by power hungry psychopaths but true power and change does not come from the top it always comes from the bottom.
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