Why are we at FRACTAI involved in what we’re up to? Well, we’re aware that people like Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, and the author Yuval Noah Harari present AI as if it was an “extraterrestrial alien” which those of us who aren’t Tech Bros are ‘lesser human beings” who must give obey and give up any idea of ethics, and morality as humans. These individuals and “their mates” as I’ll refer to them clearly think that those of us who aren’t tech bros must just shut up and accept whatever we’re given. Atlman’s recent statements regarding AI make realise that he and his mates (the Tech Bros) in fact practice a new form of morality and ethic where humans are worthless, with no (commercial) value, just machines. Ostensibly we (the non-Tech Bros) are only as valuable as the amount in our bank accounts which makes it tough if our jobs are disappearing and it’s becoming hard to earn a living. Hmm. Yes, one does get the impression given all the AI-blamed layoffs, the abuse online of kids, the increased use of AI at work that AI is taking over despite the environmental consequences, the threat to people’s wish to control their own words, and their own lives. It’s clear that these mega AI companies are pushing a world, an agenda which isn’t everyone else’s. This world view above serves them and their profit line and not society, nor communities nor people. Sam Altman (Open AI), Elon Musk (Tesla), Mark Zukerberg (Meta) and their mates have forgotten that ‘we’ the little people, don’t have to accept the future as they believes it, well want it to be.

Humans wish to live in communities where human beings are valued by each other, by their communities, to be seen, feel seen and respected. No-one wants to be perceived to be worthless, as a machine with a price-tag. This is why it’s crucial to understand these AI tools as appear rapidly, sometimes faster than we’d like. AI governance and AI ethics are crucial so AI isn’t to be idolised, it’s not smart or “the only way to do something”. If you know how to use these AI tools then you can use them and recognise them for what they are. You don’t need to buy in to Altman and his mates’ worldview. So we all need to be upskilled so that they can truly grapple with AI tools. Now national governments realise this and the UK aims to up-skill 10 million workers in AI by 2030. While the Finnish government has built and invested in purpose-built, vendor-neutral curriculum designed by education specialists to upskill those not just in Finland but in the EU.

 
So, the future isn’t all awful. The type of future depends on those of us who aren’t Tech Bros to upskill ourselves, know how to use these AI tools, be ethics so that we can manage our future, not to be told what to do or to be.