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Lafe Tolliver<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Lafe Tolliver, Esq<\/strong><\/em>
\nGuest Column<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Unless you have been living as a hermit in a cave in northern Canada, you have no doubt heard about the coming global shift-shaping demon that some call A.I\u2026 short for artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n

For those who only now and then take a peek at the news, A.I. is viewed as akin to Frankenstein creating his own Frankenstein. You simply do not know who is the real monster that has the capacity to plague both your daydreams and your nightmares.<\/p>\n

Yes, it is that bad. A.I. is akin to the genie escaping out of the bottle, but this genie comes with its own bag of tricks and devices that can scare the heebie-jeebies out of anyone who is\u00a0concerned about security and truth, with truth being told truthfully.<\/p>\n

Alarm bells in the science and computer industries are ringing at high-pitched volumes because A.I. has the capacity to think on its own, apart from its human handlers, and it can\u00a0do simple logical deductions and can engage in promulgating images that are nigh impossible to detect as being fake.<\/p>\n

Congress, belatedly, is trying to get a grip on the ramifications of an unregulated A.I. universe in which practically anything is subject to distortion, shapeshifting and just sheer outright lying about what we commonly refer to as facts.<\/p>\n

For A.I. is like silly putty in the hands of the malevolent who will use its intellectual capabilities to nefarious ends such as documents being forged to perfection, banking transactions being subject to grand theft and stories and news feeds being called into question because A.I. can change just enough of what is true to make you say, \u201cIs it real\u2026.is it true?\u201d<\/p>\n

Imagine an unregulated A.I. culture in which people with no moral scruples were to take that which has been venerated as true and fixed, but with an aggressive A.I. campaign of distortion and half-truths, you are left wondering exactly what truth is and how is it established once and\u00a0for all.<\/p>\n

Remember, A.I. does not have a conscience but it does have a keen ability to denigrate logical arguments by inserting into the conversation elements of \u201cwhat if\u201d or \u201cwhat about\u201d that can leave the viewer or reader puzzled, confused or angry if they are not informed that what they are reading or viewing is a product of A.I.<\/p>\n

No one has a monopoly on the use of A.I. or how the law should contain its apparent\u00a0voracious appetite for multiplying upon itself to advance to even greater levels of sophistication in deception or deflection.<\/p>\n

With A.I, what you see is not necessarily what you get because A.I. can provide visuals or\u00a0printed information that is the real McCoy to an untrained eye or ear.<\/p>\n

I mean\u2026how do you spank a computer program to do the right thing when it is not initially\u00a0programmed with guardrails that prevent it from wreaking havoc on a gullible population?<\/p>\n

If for example in the current political climate, imagine the immense problems A.I. could\u00a0generate in political ads and \u201cre-hashing\u201d political conversations so that your opponent is\u00a0demonized to the point of total absurdity?<\/p>\n

The time it would take to combat those false images or statements would be enormous and especially so if your target audience is not seen as being too circumspect as to how they examine, compare and contrast what they know to be true versus the now competing A.I. imagery.<\/p>\n

It is laudable that the proponents of A.I. tout its power in developing new life saving drugs or\u00a0its soon apparent ability to decode immense and complex data about scientific issues that could leave to monumental breakthroughs in creativity, food production, fights against\u00a0diseases and climate change.<\/p>\n

But. The greatest challenge will be in the field of social sciences and human interactive\u00a0behavior where the presence of the giant of A.I. could be so overwhelming that it begins to\u00a0inject thoughts and issues that are demonstrably undesirable for maintaining the cords that bind a society together.<\/p>\n

All literature, both past and present, could be subject to minor tweaks and changes so that\u00a0the initial meaning of the author or composer or photographer is lost to human memory and in\u00a0its place, A.I. triumphs.<\/p>\n

Already, there are reports of A.I. being used by lazy students to generate their term papers\u00a0 including the use of false or misleading footnotes to substantiate the truthfulness of\u00a0the article.<\/p>\n

Make no doubt about it. A.I. in the hands of unscrupulous inventors or amoral producers would have the capacity to create societies that are based upon the whims and wiles of\u00a0people whose character leaves much to be desired and much less propagated.<\/p>\n

So, in closing, ask yourself, is this article that you just read, is it authored by me or by a handler of A.I. who produced it by taking my writing traits and this subject matter and thus birthing the headline topic?<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know. Do you?<\/p>\n

Contact Lafe Tolliver at tolliver@juno.com<\/em><\/p>\n

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