“Should we let the machines flood our information channels with propaganda and falsehood?” the technologists wonder.
“Should we automate all jobs, including successful ones? Should we develop non-human minds that could eventually outnumber, outsmart, outdate, and replace us? Should we risk losing control of our civilization?” the letter from the developers continues.
On the other side, there is a more pragmatic position that ensures that technology cannot be stopped. The Chinese technology giant, Huawei, defends this position.
For the Chinese giant, the future of humanity is based on digital and, specifically, on the cloud and Artificial Intelligence, whose technologies will make the operation of companies more efficient, said Ken Kang, head of Global Ecosystem at Huawei. Cloud during the company’s Cloud LATAM Partner Summit 2023 forum. Only last year, the company of Chinese origin invested globally 20,000 million dollars for research and development of technologies such as the cloud, AI, among others.
Alfonso Jiménez, Huawei Cloud’s director of strategy and marketing for Latin America, sees Artificial Intelligence as an enabler, one more tool that humans must understand, adopt, implement and above all, control. But he considers that the risk associated with Artificial Intelligence comes from ignorance of the technology.
“Today, artificial intelligence algorithms are being interacted with before they are put on the market to identify what the algorithm does, as well as to study the structure of the database and what type of report it will deliver, to whom it will be delivered. and with what interpretation criteria”, says a manager in the framework of the Huawei Cloud LATAM Partner Summit 2023.
For this reason, he considers that this technology should not be implemented in a hurry, but rather with planning that is accompanied by strategies from companies and experts to implement it in phases or following a schedule.
Roberto Sánchez, CEO of Pronectis, a company that brings technological solutions to companies, startups and institutions, says that without a doubt technologies such as Artificial Intelligence worry humanity because it represents a gap in inequality or ‘job losses’ due to the substitution of certain jobs, however this situation can be avoided if people ‘own’ the tool and learn to use it.
“The current scenario is paradoxical. On the one hand, there is a lack of people prepared for this (to use Artificial Intelligence) but at the same time there are people who are losing their jobs because they do not have certain skills, so we have to unite the two ends”, says Sánchez.
That stopping the ball is covering the sun with your hand, says the CEO of Pronectis. “Technology will continue to develop and in this process an artificial intelligence will appear that is, perhaps, more perfect than human intelligence and this is where one wonders, what can happen? What will happen the day that an entity with a capacity for knowledge superior to humans has to decide some action on us? ”, he reflects.