Are You Ready To Surrender Your Decision-Making To Artificial Intelligence (AI)?
Raimund Laqua, PMP, P.Eng.
Chief Compliance Engineer | Ensuring Mission Success through Compliance | Lean Compliance
This may sound like a far-fetched idea, but it's closer to reality than you might think. The question is, should we be so eager to give up our autonomy to machines and is it worth the cost?
It's true that AI is capable of remarkable feats, such as analyzing vast amounts of data and making predictions based on that information. In exchange for giving AI access to all of our data (and that of everyone else), we're told that it will provide us with recommendations, decide our best course of action, and even act on our behalf when we're unable or unwilling to do so.
But what does this mean for our own learning, understanding, and critical thinking? If we rely solely on AI to tell us what to do and what to believe, do we risk losing the ability to make our own decisions, form our own opinions, or even think?
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The technology may be advancing rapidly, but wisdom is something that can only be gained through experience, reflection, and the passage of time. We should be wary of rushing headlong into a future where machines are making all the important decisions for us.
It's essential that we draw a line between what we're willing to entrust to AI and what we're not. The power of technology should be used to augment our own abilities, not replace them entirely. We must maintain our own agency and not become completely dependent on machines.
So let's not be too hasty in our eagerness to hand over the reins to AI. We must continue to cultivate our own wisdom and critical thinking skills, even as we embrace new technological advances. Let's make sure that our hope for the future includes a healthy dose of caution and a commitment to maintaining our autonomy.
They say that wisdom is often lost on the youth. Let’s hope that wisdom is not lost on all of us!
DBA(Candidate), BEng, MBA, MAES, PMP®, PMI-PBA®, PMI-RMP®, PMI-ACP®, DASM®, GPM-b
1yIt is astonishing to witness the craze surrounding AI. However, we have been using AI-Powered applications for some time now. There are many writing-aid applications, simulation applications, coding, graphic design, etc. But those applications were specialized and used by specific industries. ChatGPT brought AI to the layman. This is very similar to when social media was introduced in the form of Facebook; however, my generation was using other platforms way before my parents' generation was introduced to the concept of Social Media. It is an exciting read, and I am very guilty of humanizing my ChatGPT hahahahaha
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1yWhy do we have to "surrender" to AI. Instead, let’s have it check human decisions. Afterall, most humans I have encountered clutter their decision making with a preponderance of inherent biases and seek the endorphins release of making the “emotional or gut feel” decision. Even in weighed, supposed logic-based decision environments (i.e. CBA), the humans I know still try to apply their own biases to influence the decision to how they feel the decision should go. How many home-owners do you know, have the capacity to take emotion out of their decisions after they have seen that gorgeous kitchen, or the Man cave, or the size of the garage or the nearby Golf course, shopping mall or park. Pretty sure that any of these things out way any logic that they thought they had. For me, I like the idea of using true logic helping us to make the right decisions, even if it is from AI…. provided that the AI’s programming isn’t biased by the programmer. Thank you for posting this Raimund.
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1yFirst, a Key question. Are you speaking of an actual "intelligence" or the current language processors, like ChatGDP. I'm reading "The Relativistic Brain: How It Works and Why It Cannot Be Simulated by a Turing Machine" by Cicurel and Nicolelis, who speak to the issue of "simulating intelligence" with a machine.
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1yMost accidents or adverse outcomes are the result of bad decisions, indecisions, or decisions devoid of appropriate risk-based thinking, throughout the life cycle and adverse progression life cycle...? Even loss of situational awareness... Including intentional acts, in action, in decisions... Further, we humans make things: systems, processes, procedures, operations, tasks, products, steps, instructions, literature, on and on.... When we make these things we must identify, eliminate, or control the associated risks... When we make things and do not understand the risks system accidents and other adverse outcomes will happen... We need to design things to allow humans to be human... We need to climb out of the new boxes/mindsets and apply many forms of thinking. We will make mistakes, errors, fail, loss situational awareness, get confused, fixate, be stressed, become ill, so-called experts will be distracting and they will also fixate, on and on...
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1y"Which is why the Matrix was redesigned to this, the peak of your civilization. I say your civilization because as soon as we started thinking for you it really became our civilization which is of course what this is all about" 😎