It has been claimed that artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms can change personal identity without us realizing it and speed up the ‘calcifying effect’ of identity. It’s identified that algorithmic recommendations transcend easy taste or convenience issues and may raise philosophical and moral issues that take away individual will and dilute human characteristics.
Muriel Roienberger, a technology and AI ethicist on the University of Zurich, published an article in Live Science on the twenty seventh (local time) titled, ‘AI may hinder the talents obligatory for independent self-creation.’ He’s a bioethicist and researches digital and AI ethics, identity and authenticity, and narrative.
This text is about how problems with human identity follow the event of AI technology. In other words, we consider this to be a ‘convenience of technology’, but behind the scenes there may be a fundamental problem that forestalls AI from making humans human.
First, Roienberg said our phones already know lots about us. We have now detailed details about who we check with, how we spend our time, where we go, and what we wish to do. He added that it will not be surprising that with AI, these areas will develop into more digital and AI will give you the option to know itself higher than you.
In practice, personal user profiles generated by AI systems could also be more accurate in describing values, interests, personality traits, biases, or mental disorders than the users themselves. There are also known cases of individuals providing personal information that they didn’t already learn about themselves.
Nevertheless, he said there are two problems with this.
Initially, it will not be clear whether AI systems may be trusted. There is no such thing as a basis to guage whether AI recommendations are helpful to individuals, and this can be a black box problem that even the businesses producing the AI systems don’t learn about.
Even when AI is trustworthy, ethical concerns remain, he said. What we call identity relies on the desire and skill to create oneself beyond statistics or data.
He explained that this ‘self-creationist’ aspect of identity is in keeping with the existentialist philosophy advocated by Jean-Paul Sartre and others. Existentialists deny that humans are defined by a predetermined nature or essence.
Existing without essence means attempting to develop into a distinct person from the person you might be today, and thru this, you will need to confirm that you just are a free and independent being.
AI can tell many things about individuals. Nevertheless, he emphasized that simply pursuing well-being and following AI recommendations is an ethical failure that abdicates responsibility for oneself. He added that making good selections in life and constructing an identity that’s meaningful and makes you glad is an achievement, but handing over this power to AI is problematic.
“Continued reliance on AI advice systems can solidify identities, which may be seen as reinforcing the ‘calcification effect,’” Roienberg emphasized.
Subsequently, even in odd cases, it is usually a superb idea to place aside the advice system and be proactive in selecting movies, music, books, or news. In fact, chances are you’ll waste time or make mistakes, but the reason is that change through that is growth.
Meanwhile, evaluation of algorithmic recommendations has appeared before. But this time, the main focus is on how large-scale language models (LLMs) can learn more about us because of advances in AI technology.
As well as, recently, there was an increasing variety of issues regarding personal will and identity as a result of dependence on AI. It is usually identified that the present risk of AI will not be a dystopian scenario that destroys humanity, but reasonably an increasing dependence on AI.
Specifically, AI advice is a core service that firms promote under the name of ‘hyper-personalization’. I’m also all in favour of what sort of relationship raising issues like this may have with customized services.
Reporter Lim Da-jun ydj@aitimes.com
