/ world today news/ “I do not share the normative enthusiasm for the adoption of the euro, nor the simplistic analyzes of the war with Ukraine.”
Sofia, May 12, 2023 – “For the first time in the history of mankind, there is no question of an evolution in the means of production, of a technical leap, nor of a change of ownership over them. It is about the emergence of an autonomous form of intelligence that competes with and calls into question the very future of us as a species. As one adviser to Elon Musk in charge of artificial intelligence put it: “It risks being the highest creation of the human race, but also the last, because after it we all risk becoming redundant.”
This was said by MEP Ivo Hristov during the “Forum for Progressive Left Solutions” organized by the Delegation of Bulgarian Socialists in the European Parliament.
“Simple things like apps are changing the way we think. People of the older generation orient themselves by the directions – east, west, north, south; left, right. People of the digital generation click on the Google Maps icon and from there delegate most of the spatial decisions to the application. In recent months, we’ve all been having fun with the new AI chat. Around the coronation of Charles, a number of photographs appeared that were the work of artificial intelligence and which were some form of pranking the ceremony. Either way, what once required a photographer to rely on patience, skill, exposure and technique can now be generated by a skilled human in a matter of seconds through AI.”
“The European Parliament is even hearing that an application has appeared that generates speeches,” said Ivo Hristov. “In the joke circle – and so far many speeches sounded like they were written by AI”.
In his words, artificial intelligence is a topic that should be approached with healthy skepticism.
“Not by chance the most dedicated people in this topic, leading scientists and entrepreneurs, were frightened and came out with similar appeals. Unfortunately, the industry is absolutely always ahead of the legislation,” said Hristov.
According to the MEP, in the battle for the framing of artificial intelligence, awareness of the problem by citizens and their active pressure will be very important:
“Very easily a legislature can be breached. The industry has unlimited resources – media and financial. It promises growth, and we are still slaves to the neoliberal logic: growth is the absolute good. This creates an opportunity for a new driving force in the economy in the coming years. All of this puts jobs in question.”
The MEP also said: “Until recently, we thought that the jobs of people with low-skilled labor would suffer massively. In fact, artificial intelligence affects absolutely all jobs. Some skeptics say that artificial intelligence lacks emotional intelligence and, unlike humans, lacks a sense of humor. Therefore, it cannot be our competitor. This is a big fallacy. Our sense of humor is genetic; of associative thinking ability that creates three-, four-, five-dimensional thinking; it gives rise to bursts of irony, comic parallels, puns, and so on. Figuratively speaking, this is our genetic software, which the machine already has. Our culture is added to it, but it is nothing more than a database. In this sense, if we still sometimes manage to fool the artificial intelligence with our questions and laugh at it on social networks, very soon, probably in a matter of months, it will be able to laugh at us.”
In his speech during the forum, Hristov also drew attention to the fact that he does not share the normative enthusiasm for the adoption of the euro:
“The euro is the natural horizon for the development of Bulgaria, but the assessment of expediency – is it now?” – is a matter of serious analysis. My worries are not so much about the impact of the euro on Bulgaria, it will be similar to that in other countries that have adopted it, but about the future of the European currency itself. It is not as cloudless as it appears to us.”
“I have great reservations about the simplistic analysis of the war in Ukraine that begins in 2022 with the claim that the war broke out as a result of unprovoked aggression. Things are much more complicated, they don’t start in 2022, they don’t even start in 2014, and many countries are responsible for starting this war. That we must condemn aggression is indisputable, every war is evil. But should we be uncritical in our support for the victim country, should we turn a blind eye to its actions?” Ivo Hristov also said.
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