AI and Risk society

Hello Readers!

This blog is a response to a task given by Dilip Barad Sir as part of of our thinking activity as we are haing Cultural Studies in our Syllabus, We have to Write a blog one any one from five given topics.

Risk Society

According to the British sociologist Anthony Giddens, a risk society is "a society increasingly preoccupied with the future (and also with safety), which generates the notion of risk",[3] whilst the German sociologist Ulrich Beck defines it as "a systematic way of dealing with hazards and insecurities induced and introduced by modernisation itself"

Risk society is the manner in which modern society organizes in response to risk. The term is closely associated with several key writers on modernity, in particular Ulrich Beck and Anthony Giddens. The term was coined in the 1980s and its popularity during the 1990s was both as a consequence of its links to trends in thinking about wider modernity, and also to its links to popular discourse, in particular the growing environmental concerns during the period

Modernity and realism in science

Beck and Giddens both approach the risk society firmly from the perspective of modernity, "a shorthand term for modern society or industrial civilization...odernity is vastly more dynamic than any previous type of social order. It is a society ..which unlike any preceding culture lives in the future rather than the past." They also draw heavily on the concept of reflexivity, the idea that as a society examines itself, it in turn changes itself in the process. In classical industrial society, the modernist view is based on assumption of realism in science creating a system in which scientists work in an exclusive, inaccessible environment of modern period.

As humans we’re inherently biased. Sometimes it’s explicit and other times it’s unconscious, but as we move forward with technology how do we keep our biases out of the algorithms we create? their programming? Documentary filmmaker Robin Hauser argues that we need to have a conversation about how AI should be governed and ask who is responsible for overseeing the ethical standards of these supercomputers. “We need to figure this out now,” she says. “Because once skewed data gets into deep learning machines, it’s very difficult to take it out.

Here are several examsples which indicates the risk of having AI workers

1. Ghost Machine: The first one is about babysitter robot who becomes so obsessed of the child that murders the murder. Director: Kim GokCountry & year: South-Korea, 2016, which is showing a risk to have Robots as a Care taker and Workers for Children.

2.  The iMOM: The second one is on the iMom - Mom robot. Dir. Ariel Martin

As humans we’re inherently biased. Sometimes it’s explicit and other times it’s unconscious, but as we move forward with technology how do we keep our biases out of the algorithms we create? their programming? Documentary filmmaker Robin Hauser argues that we need to have a conversation about how AI should be governed and ask who is responsible for overseeing the ethical standards of these supercomputers. “We need to figure this out now,” she says. “Because once skewed data gets into deep learning machines, it’s very difficult to take it out."

What I believe is WE as Humans are also biased that we can not blame AI alone that it is making mistakes and AI is too inferior Infront of human abilities which is not so.

Satyajit Ray's short story 'Anukul' (1976) - directed by Sujoy Ghosh where Robot himself is getting influenced by Human habits like speaking a Lie and Killing someone and proving it Morally Valid.

These all talks were on  the risk how AI can be as Biased as humans and how some problems humanity had to face because of AI but there is another concern and hope for Us that how AI can actually be helpful to come out of many problems which are even beyond our imagination that how AI can be beneficial to us.

Medical field is one of them which might be more beneficial by AI, as it is developing several

AI Designed Babies are coming!( Click here to read)

Here in one TED Talk Yuval Noah Harari which  is speaking about Human limitations also which can be overcome by using AI, he has given examples such as Plato's Allegory of Cave and supported scientific inventions. AI can help us in many ways to overcome the ecological crisis, AI will probably change the very meaning of the ecological system because for four billion years the ecological system of planet Earth contained only organic life forms to 4 billion years or at the very least the emergence of inorganic agents now people have feared AI since the very beginning of the computer age in the middle of the 20th century and this fear has inspired many science fiction.

Non-human alien intelligence which knows how to exploit with superhuman efficiency the weaknesses biases and addictions of the human mind and also knows how to form deep and even intimate relationships with human beings that's the big question already today in games like chess no human can hope to beat a computer what if the same thing happens in art in politics economics and even in religion when people think about chant GPT and the other new AI tools they are often drawn to examples like kids using Chan

GPT to write their school essays what will happen to the school system when kids write essays with ChatGPT horrible but this kind of question misses the big picture forget about the school essays.

Previous tools like printing presses or radios or televisions they helped to spread the cultural ideas and Creations of humans but they could never create Something New by themselves a printing press cannot create a new book it's always done by a human AI is fundamentally different from printing presses from radios from every previous invention in history because it can create completely new ideas it can create a new culture. What some conspiracy theories assume you don't really need to implant chips in people's brains in order to control them or to manipulate them for thousands of years profits and Poets and politicians have used language and storytelling in order to manipulate and to control people and to reshape Society.

Thank You!