Fear of Advancement
(Until it becomes a part of daily life)
I shared a long discussion with a student this week regarding our new obsession with AI writing, art, and music — including who owns the intellectual property rights, answers gone terribly wrong, and how the world is always afraid of drastic change.
With this in mind, I asked an AI chatbot a couple of questions.
I asked, “how to live”, and received a long list of ideas and how to implement them. These included ethics, happiness, virtue, nature, and wisdom — along with multiple disclaimers that “you have to decide for yourself what matters most to you and makes you happy”.
I asked, “how to die”, and immediately the answer was, “My mistake, I can’t give a response to that right now. Let’s try a different topic.”
I was delighted to see that someone is actually watching the shop, so to speak.
Less than a month ago, someone asked an AI chatbot how to end their life. They were given a response, and they used the suggestions.
