Good Artificial Intelligence will need Collective conscience
Shailender Bamezai
Regional Managing Director – Inclusivity, Strategy, and Leadership Focused ? Top & Bottom-Line Growth ? Business Development ? P&L Management
As we embark on the 4th industrial revolution, looking back we can examine the common thread between the 1st led by steam power and mechanization all the way into today's led by artificial intelligence - collective learning. We passed our learnings across generations, cultures and races, sharing successes and failures and enabling invention and discovery. David Christian explains collective learning brilliantly in his ted talk.
Now, to embrace the 4th industrial revolution, we need much more than our collective learning. This is because AI or rather external intelligence (somehow I see the word artificial as a misnomer) is the cornerstone of the 4th industrial revolution, it isn’t just automation but much more. Kevin Kelly calls this as cognification, . Kevin Kelly explains well the cognification and how embracing the cognification can allow us to steer AI in the right direction
The development of AI for the greater good, depends on our collective learning leading to collective intelligence or collective cognition. However, to steer this collective intelligence, we will need to recognize our collective conscience by having conversations about it. We must not only understand conscience as a concept for our needs of today, but imagine what we will require for the needs of tomorrow. We will have to learn from our past, recognize our present, and build a collective conscience that considers humanity as one. It is a paradigm shift much more intrinsic, sparking from within us rather than being fed from the outside. As individuals, we need to question the difference between our likes and biases and our beliefs and prejudices. There are a lot of bodies and associations collaborating and working on a malleable definition of conscience, #futureoflife being one of them.
Finally, as indviduals, users, leaders, and organizations, we will need to engage in looking beyond and actively within, thus contributing to the collective conscience that can establish the foundation of good AI.