## Metaveri Başlık: **The Big AI Risk Not Enough People Are Seeing** Yazar: *Tyler Austin Harper* Kategori: #articles ## Altı Çizilenler - Of course, there is an extent to which this nurtured dependence isn’t unique to AI, but is an inevitable by-product of innovation. The broad uptake of any new technology generally atrophies the human skills for the processes that said technology makes more efficient or replaces outright. - Instead, we need to adopt a more sophisticated approach to artificial intelligence, one that allows us to distinguish between uses of AI that legitimately empower human beings and those—like hypothetical AI dating concierges—that wrest core human activities from human control. But making these distinctions requires us to re-embrace an old idea that tends to leave those of us on the left rather squeamish: human nature. - Both Western intellectuals and the progressive public tend to be hostile to the idea that there is a universal “human nature,” a phrase that now has [right-wing echoes](https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/11/the-right-wing-story-about-human-nature-is-false/). Instead, those on the left prefer to emphasize the diversity, and equality, of varying human cultural traditions. But this discomfort with adopting a strong definition of human nature compromises our ability to draw red lines in a world where AI encroaches on human territory. If human nature doesn’t exist, and if there is no core set of fundamental human activities, desires, or traits, on what basis can we argue against the outsourcing of those once-human endeavors to machines? We can’t take a stand against the infiltration of algorithms into the human estate if we don’t have a well-developed sense of which activities make humans *human*, and which activities—like sweeping the floor or [detecting pancreatic cancer](https://www.mayoclinic.org/medical-professionals/cancer/news/from-challenge-to-change-ais-leap-in-early-pancreatic-cancer-identification/mac-20558901)—can be outsourced to nonhuman surrogates without diminishing our agency. - A good society, according to the capability approach, is one in which human beings are not just *theoretically* free to engage in these basic human endeavors, but are actually *capable* of doing so. - What makes many applications of artificial intelligence so disturbing is that they don’t expand our mind’s capacity to think, but outsource it. - In this case, technology diminishes us, and that diminishment may well become permanent if left unchecked. Over the long term, human beings in a world suffused with AI-enablers will likely prove less capable of engaging in fundamental human activities: analyzing ideas and communicating them, forging spontaneous connections with others, and the like.