As the technology behind AI continues to develop, it is being used more and more by people every day. While many people tend to undermine AI’s potential, it’s quite shocking to see how far it has come. The issue many people are concerned about is what exactly AI might be used for in the future and whether or not those things will be good.
AI’s usage online should be heavily monitored and/or limited because its abilities can easily be manipulated to do potentially harmful things like spread political propaganda, false statistics and fake images.
First, AI has already been seen messing up statistics and promoting false narratives to people, many of which are spread like wildfire across social media platforms. This can lead to millions of people believing manipulated statistics because AI is not always accurate and quite often has wrong statistics. It is not always a reliable source of information.
Additionally, AI has the capability to create images and videos. AI images have circulated across social media in recent years and many of them have not been used for good. This is most prominently an issue on Facebook where AI images are used in many posts. For example, these images can make it look like there are people doing wonderful things after tragedies, when really, all it took was typing a prompt into an AI image creator. This can cause false hope among people on social media and other online news sources.
Lastly, in many careers across the world, AI has already been seen replacing human work. Many jobs have already started using AI to do jobs that were once done by people, making their work seem less valuable. Jobs such as artists, travel agents, telemarketers, receptionists and others which were all once done by people are now being replaced by AI. This discredits the people who once did the work and leaving them without jobs, making jobs harder to find.
In contrast, some people may argue that AI has been used for good in many ways. Things like AI being used for wildlife conservation, tools to help people with disabilities and helping to reduce inequality are all good uses of AI. However, there are still many holes in AI’s overall security and uses and something must be done to prevent misinformation being spread before we can fully utilize the good uses of AI.
To solve this problem, AI can be more heavily monitored, especially on social media, where it is most prominent. There can also be more limitations on AI’s capabilities, to prevent it from being used for things like misinformation and propaganda. This would let AI be used by more people without it being used for negative actions. Overall, this would be much better for everyone, as it would make people feel a lot better about how AI is used.
The use of AI should be monitored and prevented from being used as political advocacy, false info, and propaganda. With this limitation, AI can no longer be exploited and used for negative things online.
