Age of Ai

 Living in a new age with Ai is an immensely complex and diverse world. People all around us are still struggling to adapt to a place where technology is constantly surrounding us more than ever before. Ai is on a vast scale of the good, the bad, and the ugly. Before we get into that, let's explore the basics, so, what exactly is Ai? Ai is a set of tools that maximizes objective function. In simpler terms it is artificial intelligence that allows computers and machines to mimic problem-solving similarly to the human mind. There are many benefits of living in a world that has Ai, this includes 24/7 availability, digital assistance, new inventions, fast decision making, and error-free processing. Where there are pros there are also cons, since Ai is extremely innovative this takes people out of jobs resulting in unemployment, this will lack creativity and future improvement. 

With this being said, we have lost essentially all of our rights to privacy, this is known as us entering the new age of "surveillance capitalism". There have been numerous cases of where online users believe their right to privacy and personal information is protected, unfortunately that has been proven to not be the case. For example, Facebook was fined $5 billion by the Federal Trade Commission on the continuation of privacy violations. Google even tracks every web search you complete, doing this creates a sort of profile of what future recommendations you would like to know about. They do this in order to collect data and keep users invested. This personally scares me very much because even if you are under the impression that your personal data is being protected, is isn't. Luckily, you are able to explicitly tell websites not to sell your personal information and you can ask what they have on you. Since it is ultimately your right to know what information is out there about you.  

Sadly it is not like that everywhere, in China the citizens are trapped in their own country by Ai and technology overall. People of China get their faces regularly scanned by Ai wherever they go and are forced to show their Id. They cannot walk freely but instead are confined and live every day of their lives in fear oh what could happen. From this instance, China has been using the Belton road to spread influence globally. At this point in time, technology has become a tool of control for authoritarian government rather than for democratic government. Interestingly enough Ai has played a good and bad role in online security and identity theft. Over the course of 2022 there was a 50% increase in Americans experiencing identity theft. Ai has been very helpful in preventing identity fraud. Although it has been helpful, in recent news Ai can now replicate any humans voice just by providing it with a small sample and Ai will replicate it instantly. As of now if anything Ai seems to be providing more harm than good for our society.