Artificial intelligence, on the other hand, will be perceived as something natural.
Historian and futurist Yuval Noah Harari, as well as philosopher Slavoj Žižek took part in the HowTheLightGetsIn festival in Great Britain. In the course of the discussion, they came to the conclusion that humanity should be less concerned about what is natural, and more that our attempts to create artificial intelligence can only increase differences between people. In addition, our desire to change our own bodies may soon make people unnatural, writes The Week.
Yes, thinkers have rejected the idea of binary choice. According to them, nature is not good, not bad, not a friend to people, but not an enemy. It exists outside of morality, even if we cannot resist moral norms.
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Surprised that they were on the same side of the controversy, the thinkers came to the conclusion that the separation of natural and unnatural is artificial. They noted that over the past few decades, scientific and technological advances have convinced us that we are somehow above nature. The assumption that any man-made innovation and incident, such as nuclear reactors and COVID-19 vaccines, is “natural” may seem strange. But if their existence does not violate any laws of nature and they are made of the same physical material as everything else, to some extent it is. ” Harari.
And yet what we call “nature” is culturally mediated. The things we fall into this category today are different from those considered natural in the sixteenth century. Our sense of the natural is also ideological, Harari said. When homosexuality was considered “unnatural,” it was a political statement. Nature does not provide moral rules and does not try to determine what is right and what is not, it just is.
Harari also stressed that these ideas will soon be revised, as we are on the verge of creating inorganic life in the form of advanced artificial intelligence. According to the definition of “artificial” today, it can be considered natural in the future.
People, on the contrary, can move in the opposite direction. Thanks to genetic engineering and bionic implants, we are also on the verge of changing our biological structure. This may be a cause for concern, and we must be careful, because dictators have long dreamed of such power, Harari said.
“What I fear most is that in this attempt to improve people, we will actually lower ourselves. “If you give corporations and the military the opportunity to experiment with our DNA, to experiment with our brains, they can enhance certain qualities they need, such as discipline, but they don't need other qualities like compassion or artistic sensitivity and spirituality,” he said. futurist.
Zizek also agrees that the ability to modify the human body can eventually humiliate humanity. He said that was what Stalin wanted: to create an army of genetically modified workers who could work beyond human capabilities and survive on basic conditions.
even that machines can rebel against us. “The problem is not whether we will be enslaved by cars, but that this enslavement will increase the division between people. Some will control us, and some will be controlled, “Zyzek said.
