More Warnings about AI

More Warnings about AI from Nature Magazine

According to a Nature study from earlier this year, “AI might make it easier to do science while, at the same time, narrowing the questions and styles of reasoning that are collectively pursued.” The result may be a diffuse state of mediocre science and ignorance everywhere, a monoculture that cannnot ever be corrected. In other words, we may be approaching a standstill or decline in knowledge similar to the decay of civilization at the fall of the Roman Empire.

In 450 C.E., there were few works of originality produced in the Mediterranean region but many derivative handbooks, collections and summaries. The epic works of many Roman writers, such as Livy and Lucretius, barely survived this era of “vulgarization.” Some extremely valuable literary and scientific writings of antiquity are now only known from excerpts in compilations. Of the 142 books of Livy’s history of Rome, only 35 made the transition from late antiquity to the Middle Ages. The Emperor Claudius’ 20-book history of the Etruscans perished entirely. Today we cannot even decipher the scraps of Etruscan language preserved on tombs and vases. The Etruscan language is simply unknown to us.

Because of growing concerns about AI, DNA Consultants has endorsed the following “No AI” position.