Is the development of artificial intelligence a threat to people's creative and critical thinking?

Dariusz Prokopowicz @Dariusz-Prokopowicz

01 January 1970 8 9K Report

In your opinion, is the development of artificial intelligence, which consists, among other things, of new generations of this technology creating ever more perfect generative artificial intelligence solutions, processing ever more data, performing ever more complex work and ever more creatively performing human-ordered tasks, a threat to people's creative and critical thinking?

It used to be that people remembered the tel numbers of people they called frequently. Nowadays, tel no.'s are entered into smartphones and do not need to be remembered. Various online information services are available on smartphones and we are using them more and more. In many countries, taxi drivers are increasingly using GPS navigation and no longer have to pass an exam to know the topography and the names of all the streets in a city. Technology is increasingly relieving people of various tasks and the need to remember a lot of data. On the other hand, threats are emerging in the form of the generation of disinformation on online social media by posting pictures and videos showing 'fictitious facts' created by artificial intelligence. As deepfake is now recognised as one of the greatest threats arising from artificial intelligence applications, so it is urgently necessary to create legal regulations that regulate the proper use of artificial intelligence-based tools, including respect for copyright, when artificial intelligence creates new works, texts, graphics, etc. using various publications taken from Internet resources. How much the development of artificial intelligence and its applications will change labour markets in the future is suggested by the results of predictive and futurological analyses, according to which up to half of human jobs globally could disappear by 2050. On the other hand, surveys of a number of companies and enterprises show that over the next few years, the majority of businesses plan to carry out investment processes involving the implementation of new Industry 4.0 technologies, including artificial intelligence, into their operations. Predictive analyses and futurological visions created on their basis show that with the technological progress, along with the emergence of successive generations of artificial intelligence, more and more perfect artificial intelligence systems will be created in the next few years. In addition to this, a tool is already available on the Internet in the form of an intelligent language model based on generative artificial intelligence, which, by generating answers to questions, creates texts in an automated way, based on knowledge resources taken from a large number of Internet sites, Internet article databases, Internet book libraries, etc. On the other hand, a kind of ChatGPT creativity is not yet applied perfected, because within this creativity, "fictitious facts", i.e. nicely described events that never happened, may be described by ChatGPT in the created texts. Arguably, these imperfections in the next generations of this tool and in other ChatGPT-like intelligent, automated, digital chatbots created by subsequent technology companies will be corrected. When they are corrected, it will then become increasingly common for people to use such tools made available on the Internet by commissioning artificial intelligence to write specific texts, which will be created by the artificial intelligence in an increasingly creative manner and successively making fewer and fewer mistakes in this creative process. Consequently, humans will commission more and more complex tasks for the artificial intelligence to perform and increasingly require the use of creativity, innovation, artistry, etc. Thus, there may be another threat to humanity which may be the abandonment of performing creative activities when these activities can be performed by artificial intelligence. Thus, a new category of threat to humanity may emerge from the technological advances made by artificial intelligence. It may therefore happen in the future that the development of artificial intelligence is a threat to people's creative and critical thinking.

In view of the above, I address the following question to the esteemed community of scientists and researchers: