Klaus Stoll: AI. Where am I in all this?

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Klaus Stoll

Digital Citizen

Everybody seems to be discussing AI. The single question I have is: Where am I in all this?

I am a person, unique, unfathomable, and complicated in mind and spirit. Many wise models propose individual self-controlled data sets and their storage to govern my digital identity. Whilst we are all different people but from an engineering point of view all the same. It creates a technical solution for some material human rights issues such as freedom from fear and want, but we all know even the most perfect safety net cannot account for the fears and demons and most important love that still rage inside me. Norms and regulations are able to cover to a large extent the aspect of ensuring rights but they do not account for and recognizes these rights are based on; “the inherent dignity of all members of the human family”. In short” You can code a hammer, but you can’t code the human that uses it. That is the challenge from day one of digital technologies and instead of still trying we should simply recognize that it can’t be done. We need great coding and solutions like you propose in your presentation, but we also need to make clear that its just a tool and does not touch humanity. It is something that might be touched by humanity. The spirit of brotherhood is outside the prerogative of coders. Coders need to understand that that need to code as brothers not as value free coders. AI will now even put the human biases of coders out of play and will replace it with interest and outcome-oriented coding. Tell AI what you want, and it will create the tools for those who can afford them to do so, without any consideration to the legality or potential harm.  The question here is not rights, responsibilities or forbid “spirit of brotherhood” but “I want because I can”. (Greetings from Elon and friends). I am afraid and I fear that those who want will take the engineering solution you propose to justify their evil deeds.

How can we be sisters and brothers in a digital world? The answer is not engineering the answer is engineering in the “spirit of”.

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