Living with AI | ACTION 5 | Research the content yourself

AI is about to make information so easy for you to find, that there is already talk that Search Engines such as Google and Bing are about to become redundant and will very quickly be left behind.

The only question you really need to ask yourself about using AI when you are looking for an answer is ‘Will this form of AI provide me with what I actually need?’

The reality is that it will not. Because:

1. Someone somewhere may have programmed the AI to ignore the answers that they don’t want you to see.
2. Someone somewhere is likely to have a pecuniary or financial interest in you receiving information that benefits you in some way.
3. The programming of the AI is based only upon the parameters that its algorithm has set.
4. Some AI programmes have already demonstrated that they have the ability to create sources that appear credible to the untrained eye. Yes – that means they have the ability to lie.
5. Like a search engine, the AI reads your question or request in a very literal way. It does not and cannot see, hear or even pick up any other information about your request, that would enable a human to respond to you in a very different and considered way.

Once again, in the absence of ethically based regulation or ending the use of the equipment and tech that we already possess, we have no choice but to use the tech that we already have in ways that will help us, rather than hinder us.

Use Tech as the means. Not the end.

The healthiest and most beneficial way to work with existing smart technology and help prevent further development, is to use it as the means to find the right information, rather than relying on it to be the end, final source or to provide the conclusion in itself.

Use search engines that already exist and search out as much original content and as many original sources as possible. DON’T rely on just one.

One original information source is likely to be better than any AI supported view. But even then, that source will still be subjective, no matter how less subjective than the AI would be.

The best way to learn any subject in real depth is to teach it or talk about it many times over. Because the understanding of many different perspectives is how we finally uncover the genuine truth.