According to a report from Futurism, specialists who spoke with CBS News describe a looming process they call “gradual disempowerment,” in which society slowly surrenders agency to AI without any sudden takeover, ultimately eroding human cognition and control itself.
The concept, detailed in a research paper by Jan Kulveit of Charles University’s Center for Theoretical Studies and coauthors, does not require AI systems to actively plot against people. “In the short-term, it is being incentivized by the perceived value that AI systems can bring to economic, cultural and state functions,” Kulveit wrote.
ay Chooi, founder and CEO of Robocurve, a public benefit corporation focused on robots in the workplace, told CBS that he ranks the threat at the top of his concerns. “A lot of people feel very powerless, because it requires a lot of effort and a whole-of-society approach to solve it,” he said.
Signs of the shift are already visible. People who hand every plan and choice to AI are being derided as “meat proxies,” while cases have emerged of users following AI directions into dangerous situations, including a teenage hiker left stranded on a treacherous mountain....<<<Read More>>>...
