What if the world was slipping away from us?
2025-02-12
What if the world was slipping away from us? AI has only recently entered the public consciousness. At first, we were amused by it, like watching a trained monkey perform. Today, my word processor wants to complete my sentences, I get a summary of my emails and my day every morning, and my photos are less and less blurry. AI simplified my life.
I have a client with a substantial NDA, and I'm strictly forbidden from using AI for code review, proofreading texts, or writing emails in any "intelligent" software. Well, when I switch my configuration for one of their projects, I feel quite lost. AI complicated my life.
It only takes a month or two to form a habit. And this habit, which I've acquired like everyone else, was imposed on me. Today, it only has a minor impact, but what about tomorrow?
Machines don't make decisions, and Skynet shouldn't exterminate us tomorrow. Or so we hope. However, I see us more like the inhabitants of the Axiom spaceship in Wall-E (yeah, I know, my references are debatable). Confined to our chairs that move according to a program composed for us, choosing only from the options set before us, like watching ourselves become digital servants.
Yes, AI is fabulous. Yes, AI is inevitable in our daily lives. But our free will must prevail. Because if everything is fine today, it's because we didn't grow up with AI, and our education and culture bring judgment to what AI can offer us.
So, let's appreciate our blurry photos, our (sometimes convoluted) writing styles, take the time to read our messages, press articles... And above all, let's pass this on to our children. Keep AI as a tool, an assistant. And everything should be fine. Or so we hope.
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