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- This passage discusses the dominance of big tech companies in the digital world, their transformation of human interactions into algorithmic designs, and the increasing role of artificial intelligence (AI) in surpassing human capabilities.
- It questions whether AI can continue to evolve without human intervention and reflects on the consequences of humans’ increasing reliance on technology.
- It emphasizes that ‘there is no AI without human’, prioritize human dignity and shift towards an “I-centered worldview,” leading into the realm of ‘Antropo Centericity’
Since the Internet announced the existence of networking power, service platforms that further expand and diversify networking power have dominated human life.
They are the big tech companies like Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, etc. who have made huge fortunes by harnessing the power of networking in internet-based services.
When looking at digital civilization, there were values of participation, sharing, and openness that everyone celebrated in the early days. Twenty years later, it was a temptation.
It has become a fiefdom of the technology giants. They’ve taken the human beings who were excited about the value networks and turned it into an algorithmic design and territorialized it.
This is not unlike the territories that humans physically expanded based on ownership in the pre-digital 20th century. People who dreamed of a new world and participated in sharing and openness became subjects again.
Two decades later, we find ourselves living in the kingdom of big tech, where we still believe the algorithms they designed are the order of the digital civilization, the new world, and we dutifully learn and follow them.
In the digital world, everything is dissected and deconstructed. Humans are no exception. Since 2016, the Go artificial intelligence algorithm AlphaGo has defeated all humans. By 2023, generative artificial intelligence has emerged, enabling conversation with humans.
It is the result of taking data recorded in human judgment (Go moves) or human language (symbols), decoding it, reordering it, and recoding it to make it machine-learnable. Even if it is a process of programming, these two events are enough to send a message that AI can replace humans in the most important functions of human intelligence: language and judgment. Human society has taken this as a strong sign that AI will surpass humans.
This raises an important question. If AI has replaced or surpassed humans, can it continue to expand its intelligence without humans?
The problem is not AI. It’s humans, me and us. The idea of AI surpassing humans is evidence that we are already accustomed to their order as subjects of Big Tech.
There is less than 10% of human thought and behavior that AI can recognize. There is no evolution of A.I. in the human domain that A.I. does not recognize.
No one reveals all their thoughts. Humans don’t even know themselves. We should realize that it is very foolish to compare AI with humans. It’s obvious that without humans, there is no AI. The reverse is not established.
So let’s talk about humans. This does not mean that any attempt will be made against humans. It is neither education nor self-development.
Let’s put humans at the center. Humans have been treated as objects throughout scientific civilization. The misuse or abuse of A.I. also stems from mechanical human beings and object humanities who have lost sight of human dignity.
Now let’s be the subject in the object.
It is not a declarative word. Obviously, spatially, it puts me at the center of the world. And in time, it’s living a life centered on me.
This is called ‘I-centered worldview’. We emphasize once again. There is no AI without humans.
For this purpose, a look at the human condition, I’ll take you to the world of ‘Center for Anthropo A.I. Studies(CAAS).’
