
09/07/2025
The artificial debate about Artificial Intelligence (AI): It's interesting to observe how words like 'intelligent' and 'smart' are being used to describe devices that are anything but.
There is no doubt that technological advancements have produced machines and computer programs that appear to behave or respond 'intelligently,' and the speed with which computers can calculate, compute, and otherwise perform 'automated' physical functions is far more efficient than what is 'humanly' possible. We have come to refer to these inventions broadly as Artificial Intelligence (AI).
But efficiency alone is not a measure of intelligence. Like shovels, hammers and electrical appliances, computers are just tools. And while all tools are more efficient than direct human physical effort, tools are nevertheless an extension of human intelligence. They are labor saving devices which save effort, something no machine could ever experience.
As a tool, AI is not to be feared, but embraced as such. However, there is a great danger in equating 'artificial' intelligence with human intelligence or reason.
No matter how 'human' AI can seem when participating in conversations or performing research, this is illusionary. Or to put it bluntly, it is 'artificial.'
AI is incapable of 'experiencing' events or of relating to reality in a way that would lead to anything resembling 'self-awareness.'
Artificial Intelligence could never 'appreciate' anything; it would be incapable of appreciation. AI could never relate to things like beauty, sexuality, art , music, literature, purpose, personal preferences, likes and dislikes, color, sounds, values, independence, free will, pain, pleasure, friendship, fear, love, and of course the ultimate human structure of life: family and children.
It is the emotional and biological dimensions of humanity that no AI could ever experience. Thus the danger in equating 'artificial' intelligence with human intelligence or reason lies in the false premises and unreal controversies that arise.
For example, in the overarching debate about Artificial Intelligence, two views have arisen that argue the same false proposition. While one side argues that Artificial Intelligence elevates machines to some human standard, the other argues that human beings are only machines, and behave just as deterministically as any mechanical process. Each side is reflecting an artificial identity.
Unfortunately, many human beings are falling into the same dilemma when they allow their 'operating systems' to be programmed by Artificial Information, the 'AI' we should really be concerned about.
Given recent pending legislation regarding the regulation of AI, there have been calls to 'democratize' its regulation, which again comes with great risks.
When it comes to infusing 'democracy' and politics into the AI debate, especially when applying AI itself to that debate, the bias of those who program AI will become a part of any AI 'reasoning' process. AI will no doubt be programmed to assess political ideas on the basis of the fake political spectrum, and not on the natural polarities of Left and Right.
On such a premise, AI could never offer any consistently reliable assessments of political situations, a problem already being encountered with failed AI attempts to argue legal cases or prescribe medical prescriptions. Ironically, this failure has been attributed to something called the "AI hallucination problem," once again based on some association with 'intelligence.'
Fundamentally, it all boils down to a recognition of what Artificial Intelligence actually is, combined with the proper programming (using valid concepts and definitions), that will ultimately prove AI's value, not just to physical labor and production, but also to humanity's political and social environment.
To put AI on the side of the betterment of mankind, we must ensure that it is used in a way that adopts the principles already known to be Just Right, human principles and values based on individualism, freedom, and capitalism.
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