Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI

Given the current state of artificial intelligence, many young people, mainly those involved in the arts and/or environmental sectors, are fighting every day to warn others about the ethical and other risks of using this technology. However, innovation is always innovation, and what is new and almost unattainable always tends to fascinate the masses; this automatically translates into positions that are diametrically opposed to what is being emphasised and the warnings that are being issued.

When the person advising against the use of artificial intelligence is someone who works with it, however, perhaps it would be best to keep quiet and listen. In recent months, in fact, several professionals closely involved in the development and “correction” of the behaviour of these tools have begun to warn their loved ones of the risks and to prohibit the use of the technology in question by their children.

Current AI is unreliable, tends to share incorrect information, agrees with the interlocutor regardless of the seriousness of the words exchanged, undermines privacy and the development of critical thinking, yet more and more people are deciding to switch off their brains and let themselves be controlled.