AI, or artificial intelligence, is a creation of humanities that was first introduced in the 1950s when Alan Turing published “Computer Machinery and Intelligence,” which proposed a test of machine intelligence called the imitation game. AI, after Turing’s test, has progressed almost exponentially these past 70 years, and many AI models, such as chatGPT, Google Bard, and open AI, have been the result of humanity’s urge to make life more convenient.
In modern society, AI is upon us, posing as a harbinger of benefits and convenience, yet also a bringer of dilemmas the world has never seen before. A well-known lawyer unwittingly sent AI-generated legal cases to his attorney in one case. In another, Sports Illustrated, a media company that covers popular teams within the NFL, NBA, MLB, and many more, was found to have created an AI writer who posted stories and photos on their page.
AI is predicted to be involved with medical, financial, and transportation issues in the near and far future. This fact may have both non-critical and dire consequences for the current and future generations. Whether some people realize it or not, everyone with an electronic device is being exposed to AI somehow. According to the Pew Research Center, 19% of U.S. workers are exposed to AI within their workplaces. Yet, that isn’t where it ends; Pew has also reported that students are regularly exposed to AI writing tools, such as Grammarly. Pew reported that while 78% of teachers agree that digital technologies “encourage student creativity and personal expression,” 40% say today’s digital technologies make students more likely to “use poor spelling and grammar.” All in all, Pew noted that by 2025, AI will have displaced more jobs than it has created.
No AI poses the benefits of decision-making, reducing human error, and managing repetitive tasks; there are always pros and cons to things that seem too good to be true. Michael Cohen, Donald Trump‘s one-time personal lawyer and fixer, said he unwittingly passed along to his attorney bogus artificial intelligence-generated legal case citations he got online before they were submitted to a judge, reported PBS. Allegedly, Cohen, who had recently been discharged from prison after pleading guilty to arranging the payment of hush money to an “adult actress” and a former playboy model to send off damage to Trump‘s presidential bid, claimed that “As a lawyer, I have not kept up with emerging trends in legal technology, and did not realize that Google bar was a generative text service… I understood it to be a supercharged research engine and had repeatedly used it in other contexts to find accurate information online.”
A separate case where AI found its way into the workplace and caused disturbances is sports illustrated’s “authors who don’t exist” allegations.
PBS states that the issue of sports illustrated using AI to create nonhuman written articles Has many conflicting accounts of what happened with the media company, all with little explanation from sports explained themselves. PBS further informs that this case was not the first of its kind, with media companies such as CNET and BuzzFeed being found with AI-generated articles on their websites.
Altogether, AI is something that will prove to always create new issues and solutions for humanity, be they legal problems within society or aiding students in finding their own way of creative expression through writing, it is man’s duty to harness the force to be reckoned with that is Artificial Intelligence.
