Latest Updates related to Artificial Intelligence
About Artificial intelligence (AI):
- It is a field of study in computer science that focuses on simulating intelligent computer behaviour.
- It depicts the process by which machines carry out actions that have traditionally required human intelligence.
- Machine learning, pattern recognition, big data, neural networks, self-algorithms, and other technologies are included.
- g: A few instances of AI that are currently present in our environment are Facebook’s facial recognition software, which recognises faces in the pictures we upload, and voice recognition software, which interprets our requests for Alexa.
Artificial Intelligence Generation:
- It is a state-of-the-art technological development that produces new types of media, including text, audio, video, and animation, by utilising artificial intelligence and machine learning.
- With the development of sophisticated machine learning skills, prompts—simple text—can now be used to create original, imaginative short- and long-form material, synthetic media, and even deep fakes.
Innovations in AI:
- Generative Adversarial Networks, or GANs
- Large Language Models, or LLMs
- Transformers that are Generatively Pre-trained.
- Creating Images for Experiments
- Make for sale products such as DALL-E to generate images.
- For text generation, use ChatGPT.
- It can compose marketing copy, computer code, blogs, and even search query results.
Current Concerns:
- brutal localised conflicts
- Civic disputes
- Anthropogenic damages
AI and the UN:
- The UN system works with artificial intelligence (AI) and “frontier technologies.”
- 2019 saw the release of the UN system-wide strategic approach and road plan for AI capacity building.
- The United Nations system’s ethical AI usage guidelines are outlined in the UNESCO declaration, which also provides ideals and guidelines.
- Respect, defend, and advance fundamental liberties, human rights, and human dignity
- environmental durability
- both inclusivity and diversity.
- These cover eleven specific areas of concern, such as just development and good governance.
- These principles provide the basis of a “system-wide normative and operational framework on the use of AI in the United Nations system.”
“Digital sovereignty” and “digital diplomacy” performances:
- Digital sovereignty is gradually replacing territorial sovereignty as a guiding concept.
- Corporate governance is fundamentally centred on the transnational, multilayer governance of AI.
- The ability to rule over peoples and countries is being replaced by vast amounts of secret information.
- Digital media includes hate speech, false information, and disinformation.
Issues with artificial intelligence:
- “The Internet of Things and Big Data Analytics are powered by AI.”
Currently, their “primary function is to:
- obtain personal data
- make thorough behavioural profiles
- Sell us the products and the plan.
- Autonomy, privacy, and anonymity: AI has the power to influence political and economic decisions.
- In actuality, the current digital conflicts between the US and China involve three distinct “digital empires” that are at odds with one another.
- Anu Bradford’s book-length analysis on China’s legal and regulatory systems in relation to the US and EU (Digital Empires, 2023). The United States’ free digital model brings back the ideas of free expression and open marketplaces.
- It completely surrenders the form and content to the laws of the free market.
- All of this technological optimism makes a “authoritarian” regulatory reach paradigm appealing.
- It is predicated on state hegemony over commercial AI firms and monitoring.
- The US, the EU, and the rest of the democratic world are becoming increasingly concerned about the Chinese state-driven regulatory model, which is “on the ascent worldwide.”
Concerns about Ethics in AI:
The Way Ahead:
- It is true that China’s regulatory framework will triumph in both normative and descriptive senses.
- China has made remarkable technological advancements, yet its use of technology is frequently quite oppressive.
- Many growing authoritarian nations find attraction in the Chinese state-driven model, which “combines political control with tremendous technological success.”
- The EU model appears to be preferred by very few genuinely functioning “democratic” cultures, as it is perceived to offer the “essential building blocks of a more equitable and human-centric digital economy.”
- The EU Declaration on Development declares that respect for human rights is “a precondition for the achievement of inclusive and sustainable development,” emphasising the importance of a human rights-based approach to development.
- AI has now irreversibly “revolutionised” combat through the employment of unmanned lethal autonomous weapons systems, or LAWs as the US Defence Department has ironically shortened them.
- It demonstrates the total reliance on machine learning and the dehumanisation of military tactics.
- putting international humanitarian law’s project on hold.
- It is imperative that the broader endeavour of “humanising” AI applications in all domains—military and civil—continue.
