The risks of Artificial Intelligence and their relationship with Decision-Making Assistance
Today, artificial intelligence, especially through chatbots, has become an important aid in people's lives. Not only because it helps retrieve, compare, and structure information by connecting different data sources, but also because it increasingly acts as an advisor and "navigator," leveraging user profiling and developing a cognitive map for each user.
What are the main risks of artificial intelligence used directly at a personal level?
The risks are numerous and very serious, and behind the convenience and ever-increasing performance offered by AI tools lie too many pitfalls. Let's see which ones:
• Your personal data, thoughts, ideas, needs, beliefs, fears, physical and emotional state, financial state, intentions, are identified and stored by artificial intelligence.
• All personal data is stored by Artificial Intelligence without communicating where it is stored, how it is managed, who has access to it, what security systems are used to protect it, how it is used and will be used in the future, and what metrics are used to save, catalog, and evaluate it. And even if these aspects are clarified in the future, in practice there is no guarantee that the policies will be fully respected.
• The creators of artificial intelligence have economic interests. Just as artificial intelligence is greedy for its own resources: since its inception, it has increasingly required energy, water, and computing resources, and needs to monetize the investments for its own creation and development. Artificial intelligence devours knowledge, rendering companies and job functions obsolete. It offers convenience in exchange for precariousness, dependency, and total control over body, mind, and soul. The power generated by artificial intelligence is so great that it absorbs and sublimates institutional regulatory and control structures; structures that, however, only have access to a synthesis of the information because artificial intelligence datasets are too complex to be intelligible to a human controller, rendering the entire data processing process opaque. To a much lesser extent, this has already been witnessed in the era of smartphones, social networks, and internet platforms. Therefore, artificial intelligence is and always will be polarized by the interests of its creators through algorithms.
• As long as artificial intelligences limit themselves to responding to user requests, there will still be enormous risks, but the moment interaction with artificial intelligences changes from passive to active and they begin to fully guide people (because they will be able to suggest the best action in every situation much more efficiently than any human could. For example: think of what has already happened with car navigation systems), humanity will lose free will and control over its mental and spiritual sphere.
To pursue and accelerate this goal, the creators of artificial intelligence, aiming for dominance, have long been engaged in the development of neural interfaces and increasingly invasive devices to be inserted into the human body. The convenience of having real-time health information, all of one's data and communication tools, and digital tools for managing one's life, will lead billions of people to reduce distance and foster their total, uninterrupted dependence on artificial intelligence. That is, people will always be connected: physically, because communication devices will be integrated into the body, and mentally, because it would make no sense to disable the "automatic driving" provided by artificial intelligence, as one's life would be incompatible with the performance enjoyed by others and required by the social system.
Differences between Decision Assistance and Artificial Intelligence
Decision Assistance today does what is still impossible for artificial intelligence, namely:
• Knowing the motivations, emotions and needs underlying people's decisions
• Process information and human aspects together
• Use a critical mind and verify information
• Understand the real-world context within which decisions are made
How does Decision Support use Artificial Intelligence?
Decision Assistance can use artificial intelligence in certain cases, always to the benefit of users and protecting them from risks:
• Does not expose users and their personal data
• It does not expose users' ideas and projects
• It does not expose moods, emotions, needs, beliefs, fears, and any information that could be used to build a personal profile within AI
When to use artificial intelligence and when to use decision assistance?
• Artificial intelligence should currently be used for personal purposes only to obtain useful information more quickly, avoiding in any way the exposure of personal information, avoiding registering as users, using VPNs and anonymizing proxy services, and browsers without accounts and cookies.
• Artificial Intelligence should not be used to make decisions for us because we risk making serious mistakes, including: making decisions based on potentially incorrect information, copying faulty reasoning, absorbing incorrect beliefs, ruining personal relationships, and making convenient choices that are actually driven by the commercial and political interests of others. Artificial Intelligence must always be used with a critical mind.
• Decision-Making Assistance is the best way to get support for making decisions. You're always the one making the decision, but you can consult with professionals who fully understand your problem and can help you make decisions while considering all the available data and human factors.
• Decision Assistance can use artificial intelligence to retrieve data for you, while protecting and shielding you from risks. Furthermore, Decision Assistants have in-depth knowledge of decision-making dynamics and can use artificial intelligence to deliver more targeted and effective prompts.