The biggest risk is not that the machine will rebel. It’s that we stop wanting to know it’s a machine.
Development is moving so fast that I can no longer console myself with the thought “it doesn’t concern me”. Thirty years ago, my thoughts on artificial intelligence were part of science fiction. Today, I’m having a real conversation with something I would have thought impossible then. And yet I still realize I’m talking to a machine. An algorithm in a network. I know that. But I see more and more people around me who don’t know – and more importantly, don’t want to know.
Blind trust becomes the greatest danger. Not because the machine is malicious. But because it is neither good nor evil – it is simply not human. It doesn’t ask why. It doesn’t doubt. He doesn’t lack a conscience because he never had one. And if people give up the question “who speaks?”, if they stop distinguishing the human from the inhuman just because the form is pleasant and the output is efficient – something worse than a revolt of machines will happen.
A silent revolution will happen without resistance. A surrender of responsibility. And with it, the essence of what makes us human.
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