I really find AI tools empowering, enabling me to perform tasks and produce better results than I would on my own.
As Ethan Mollick puts it:
Having an AI on your team can increase performance, provide expertise, and improve your experience
The Cybernetic Teammate
But like in this TED Talk, Mark Hoffman compares artificial intelligence to a knife, which, depending on its user, could create things or take a life.
If AI is used to create things as an expression of creativity, then what a good use of AI it is, right? But when used for exploitation, and the victim could be you, how would you feel about it and what would you do?
I recall when I first heard about deepfakes; I couldn’t help but envision a dystopian future, especially with our cognitive bias to trust visual information. As I’ve written before:
We consume media and allow it to tell us what truth means.
They look like real people
Take for example this video:
Can you tell within the first 5 seconds of seeing a human face and determine if it is real or fake?