With the sudden interest jump towards AI, what exactly will it bring? If you go on YouTube you can find countless songs sung by other artists, which were created by AI. You go into a classroom and kids are using ChatGPT like it’s their own work. The Writers Guild of America strike in 2023, was caused because of ChatGPT creating scripts and taking the writers’ jobs. Now on Snapchat, you have an AI you can talk to, as if it were a real person. Or the sudden trend of AI expanding your pictures. AI one day will take our jobs. How much further are we going to go before we realize just how dangerous going down this technology and AI-filled path is going to be?

AI, or artificial intelligence is a study field in computer science that creates and studies intelligent machines. AI filters things on YouTube, Netflix, Google, social media, and other websites to bring things to your eyes that you would most likely be interested in. From that point of view, AI seems pretty good, but it’s the other side of AI that is causing damage.

The music industry is thriving with AI on its side. AI helps them write and record their music. AI also suggests new songs to listeners all over, so the artist gets publicity through AI. AL makes it cheaper to produce music than ever before. However, recently some concern has come about from the listeners. If you go on YouTube you can see songs sung by one artist sung by other famous artists that were not sung by those artists, they were made with artificial intelligence. Those “covers” can cause some copyright issues. Autotune is used so much, that it’s a necessity at this point. If you go and watch an interview with a singer and they sing without autotune, fully acapella, chances are it’s going to sound nothing like the actual song.

The film industry may be losing more than it’s getting from AI. The 2023 Writers Guild of America lasted 148 days, and those who participated protested for better pay to the writers. Hit shows like Stranger Things, Abbott Elementary, and Saturday Night Live were stopped during the strike and are just now starting to come back. Writers wanted the use of AI (like ChatGPT) to be limited to just giving ideas for scripts, not writing the scripts. AI helps make animated movies and, special effects movies, for this AI is beneficial but the jobs, are not so much. Voice actors soon might not be needed, as AI is taking over the voice industry, both in the music industry and film industry.

In 2017, according to Independent Facebook had AI robots talking in their own language. It was similar to English but, the programs made “adjustments” to make it easier for them (the artificial intelligence) to understand. The two’s names Alice and Bob, had a very interesting and strange conversation, if you will. Along with AI making its own language Steven Hawking said, “I fear that AI may replace humans altogether. If people design computer viruses, someone will design AI that improves and replicates itself. This will be a new form of life that outperforms humans.”

Our generation has been given so much access to the internet and we don’t know exactly what to do with it. If you shove a Chromebook at them and give them a packet of things to do, do you expect them not to use the internet to their advantage? I mean honestly, using the internet has been part of our curriculum since COVID when they introduced Chromebooks and different levels of technology to us.

We all rely on our technology, even if we don’t realize it. Technology is all around us all you have to do is look around. But with stores, changing everything to bring technology into their buildings, that demolishes job possibilities. And not even just that, but if Steven Hawking, a genius who dedicated his life to the secrets of the universe, was even scared about artificial intelligence taking over, then shouldn’t we be?