We are what we think - Lord Buddha There is a conviction that human beings are spiritually bestowed with positive and negative energies, which also is a study subject of psychology and neuroscience.
Both these subjects have established the link between our emotions & feelings and our thoughts & beliefs. These ‘metaphysical’ features reign in our natural thought processes. It has bearings on our lifestyle, mental state and in how we reason, decide and accept. Positive energy focuses on serenity, tolerance and compassion and while negative energy generates hatred, maliciousness and anger. People have managed to remain in a state of equilibrium in our mindscape by maintaining a balance between these two rival energies that makes people function with objectivity on a daily basis drawing energies from both when necessary. This is what Buddhism calls mindfulness - a positive state of mind that sees reality as it is and acts with integrity.
All religions also reinforce positive energy such as gratitude, tolerance, love and compassion. On the flip side however, human emotions also harbour negative energy that focuses on fear, pride, hate and jealousy. Away from religion and God, in neuroscience these are the natural psychosomatic mindscape or mental state associated with our nervous system that governs human behaviour. This inborn consciousness is controlled by various parts of the human brain and can be influenced by the physical environment impacting positive and negative energy balance, depending upon which, we either enjoy or complain about. As our energy is scalar, how much we enjoy or complain depends on the extent of stimulus of our physical environment. Some people may be able to resist negative energy and may even be able to convert it to positivity but many are not. This is our current situation with social media and AI. It is affecting our competence, work, motivation, focus, relationships, skills and emotions. Natural perception is not compatible with AI generated façade. Is it possible that AI is giving a new meaning to life and living as our thought process is no more natural?
All that we are arises with our thoughts – Lord Buddha
Social media entered our society just about twenty years ago but it has penetrated deep into the mindscape of people making tremendous impact on emotions & feelings and thoughts & beliefs that reigns our natural cognition processes. With the integration of AI in social media, it has become much more intrusive that one can comprehend. Stimulus of AI is overshadowing what people learn from reading books. These impacts have been observed across all ages everywhere within a very short time. On the positive side, social media encourages creativity to learn and excel and helps connectivity that makes sharing and caring with ease. AI in particular has exponentially boosted people’s ability to expand knowledge in any field of their choice. The updates in AI are being introduced regularly making its application wider and deeper in content. Positive applications of AI appear to have no limits especially in technology. This is the face value of AI as interpreted by the AI tech giants.
The downside of AI is its assault on information literacy, especially of children. There is a natural path for children to learn refined over the millennia. As children grow, they learn using their cognition step by step which is retained in their mindscape as long term and short-term memory. As they grow children recognise information needs depending on context, locate sources of information, retrieve and use in solving problems. The AI has taken over this task which could gradually suppress and may even disable the cognitive skills of growing children as they do not have to think anymore. With instant answers to any question children may lose reading and thinking habits, which will harm or even kill their critical thinking. Children’s future depends on information literacy which involves reasoning and being able to navigate in this increasingly chaotic world. AI is quashing the development of positive energy in children mercilessly as negative energy generated by AI has dominated children’s mindscape. Excessive dependency on AI could make children not able to face global challenges as the knowledge they gain is based on what is presented to them algorithmically which did not involve children’s natural cognitions. Is the AI even ethical?
Like a moth to a flame - Shakespeare
Social media was already bad enough in annihilating children’s attention span, now with integration of AI in social media, video games, advertising & marketing the relationship between children and AI may have become like a moth to a flame. AI generated streaming media have become seductive to children generating curiosity and addiction, many of which contain harmful materials. Body shaming among teenage girls is a known psychological problem but with AI promoted video clips with unnatural beauty standards could degenerate self-esteem among teenagers. Cyber space is loaded with video games with personalised challenges with rewards, messages with fake contents using cloned voices and pictures of celebrities promoting toys, unhealthy foods and behaviours. Children develop negative energy such as losing tempers while playing online games & learning foul language. Children may be emotionally dependent on chatbots as companions instead of playing with their peers. There are many contents in streaming media that generate negative energies among children such as swearing, losing tempers, lying to hide wrong doings, stress, not trusting parents and siblings and so on. There are toys with which children can have conversations which can record conversations and transmit locations that risk privacy. Child trafficking and online abuse of children is already a problem. AI is likely to exacerbate this problem further. AI is the biggest risk that could dislodge emotional and physiological naturopaths of children. Policy makers have just one question to answer; is freedom of information superior to the future of the next generation? What happened to humanity?
What will be the future of humankind?
Several countries have put restrictions on use of social media by children under sixteen years of age. Will it mitigate the problem? Do not dream; it will not. People older than sixteen are as much at risk as children when it comes to AI. The only solution, which may sound impossible, is to put a total ban on the application of AI like the ban on the use of nuclear weapons. Are there other solutions? Most of the video games children play involve shooting and killing. There are of course video games on footballs, tennis, etc. but children are more attracted to war games more than other sports. Like the negative news travels fast so is the negative energy generated by the AI.
On a broader perspective, AI as such is not the problem. AI has a lot to offer in advancing manufacturing, innovating new medicine & vaccines, businesses & industries to boost the economy and human development. In addition to the AI in social media, application of the AI in weapons industry and extractive industries could put the entire human civilisation in danger. The AI driven weapons could incinerate communities without anyone having time to ask what happened. Intensive extractive industry will accelerate the climate crisis that could neutralise whatever progress made in renewable energy. Application of AI is driven more by greed than logic. AI is bad for the people as well as the planet. As we follow AI, trouble will follow us till eternity!
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All religions also reinforce positive energy such as gratitude, tolerance, love and compassion. On the flip side however, human emotions also harbour negative energy that focuses on fear, pride, hate and jealousy. Away from religion and God, in neuroscience these are the natural psychosomatic mindscape or mental state associated with our nervous system that governs human behaviour. This inborn consciousness is controlled by various parts of the human brain and can be influenced by the physical environment impacting positive and negative energy balance, depending upon which, we either enjoy or complain about. As our energy is scalar, how much we enjoy or complain depends on the extent of stimulus of our physical environment. Some people may be able to resist negative energy and may even be able to convert it to positivity but many are not. This is our current situation with social media and AI. It is affecting our competence, work, motivation, focus, relationships, skills and emotions. Natural perception is not compatible with AI generated façade. Is it possible that AI is giving a new meaning to life and living as our thought process is no more natural?
All that we are arises with our thoughts – Lord Buddha
Social media entered our society just about twenty years ago but it has penetrated deep into the mindscape of people making tremendous impact on emotions & feelings and thoughts & beliefs that reigns our natural cognition processes. With the integration of AI in social media, it has become much more intrusive that one can comprehend. Stimulus of AI is overshadowing what people learn from reading books. These impacts have been observed across all ages everywhere within a very short time. On the positive side, social media encourages creativity to learn and excel and helps connectivity that makes sharing and caring with ease. AI in particular has exponentially boosted people’s ability to expand knowledge in any field of their choice. The updates in AI are being introduced regularly making its application wider and deeper in content. Positive applications of AI appear to have no limits especially in technology. This is the face value of AI as interpreted by the AI tech giants.
The downside of AI is its assault on information literacy, especially of children. There is a natural path for children to learn refined over the millennia. As children grow, they learn using their cognition step by step which is retained in their mindscape as long term and short-term memory. As they grow children recognise information needs depending on context, locate sources of information, retrieve and use in solving problems. The AI has taken over this task which could gradually suppress and may even disable the cognitive skills of growing children as they do not have to think anymore. With instant answers to any question children may lose reading and thinking habits, which will harm or even kill their critical thinking. Children’s future depends on information literacy which involves reasoning and being able to navigate in this increasingly chaotic world. AI is quashing the development of positive energy in children mercilessly as negative energy generated by AI has dominated children’s mindscape. Excessive dependency on AI could make children not able to face global challenges as the knowledge they gain is based on what is presented to them algorithmically which did not involve children’s natural cognitions. Is the AI even ethical?
Like a moth to a flame - Shakespeare
Social media was already bad enough in annihilating children’s attention span, now with integration of AI in social media, video games, advertising & marketing the relationship between children and AI may have become like a moth to a flame. AI generated streaming media have become seductive to children generating curiosity and addiction, many of which contain harmful materials. Body shaming among teenage girls is a known psychological problem but with AI promoted video clips with unnatural beauty standards could degenerate self-esteem among teenagers. Cyber space is loaded with video games with personalised challenges with rewards, messages with fake contents using cloned voices and pictures of celebrities promoting toys, unhealthy foods and behaviours. Children develop negative energy such as losing tempers while playing online games & learning foul language. Children may be emotionally dependent on chatbots as companions instead of playing with their peers. There are many contents in streaming media that generate negative energies among children such as swearing, losing tempers, lying to hide wrong doings, stress, not trusting parents and siblings and so on. There are toys with which children can have conversations which can record conversations and transmit locations that risk privacy. Child trafficking and online abuse of children is already a problem. AI is likely to exacerbate this problem further. AI is the biggest risk that could dislodge emotional and physiological naturopaths of children. Policy makers have just one question to answer; is freedom of information superior to the future of the next generation? What happened to humanity?
What will be the future of humankind?
Several countries have put restrictions on use of social media by children under sixteen years of age. Will it mitigate the problem? Do not dream; it will not. People older than sixteen are as much at risk as children when it comes to AI. The only solution, which may sound impossible, is to put a total ban on the application of AI like the ban on the use of nuclear weapons. Are there other solutions? Most of the video games children play involve shooting and killing. There are of course video games on footballs, tennis, etc. but children are more attracted to war games more than other sports. Like the negative news travels fast so is the negative energy generated by the AI.
On a broader perspective, AI as such is not the problem. AI has a lot to offer in advancing manufacturing, innovating new medicine & vaccines, businesses & industries to boost the economy and human development. In addition to the AI in social media, application of the AI in weapons industry and extractive industries could put the entire human civilisation in danger. The AI driven weapons could incinerate communities without anyone having time to ask what happened. Intensive extractive industry will accelerate the climate crisis that could neutralise whatever progress made in renewable energy. Application of AI is driven more by greed than logic. AI is bad for the people as well as the planet. As we follow AI, trouble will follow us till eternity!
Read more articles by Ramesh here
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