Jack McNulty

Professor Rodrick

English 115

25 September 2017

Artificial Intelligences Destruction on Self Identity

From the stone ages to present day, human beings have been creators. Constructing new

technology as simple as the wheel and as complex as the computer circuit, the evolution of

creativity has been a non-stop ball of snow down a steep hill. And nothing explains us humans

better than the title of creators, its considered our identity. However, all of that is starting to

change as our love for creating begins to plunge deeper into technology. With the creation of

artificial intelligence, the human identity of creating will soon take a drastic turn. Artificial

intelligence is simply a very smart computer program. Its ability to learn from mistakes at an

almost dangerous rate allows it to evolve just like a human would, only at speeds thousands of

times faster than we ever could. These artificial intelligence programs are made in order to view

design aspects, safety issues, and many more from different angles that have never been thought

of before. Even though artificial intelligence could better society with innovative designs and

time saving strategies, it diminishes the creative identity of humans, could replace creative jobs,

and human interaction is not needed once the artificial intelligence is made.

Looking at humans, we are observed as complex beings with a drive to create ideas and

technology that can better our society. This is what gives us purpose, this is what gives us our

identity. Without our creative identity, we are almost nothing to this world, and artificial

intelligence is going to remove that necessary aspect of our lives. Imagine a world where
essentially nothing is made by your own species, what would you do all day? Thats the problem

here because artificial intelligence has the potential to completely take that power away from the

human species in the upcoming years. (possible quote) Some might say that having artificial

intelligence will help better the future with innovative designs and viewpoints that have never

been tried before, but looking at the aspect of human purpose, this is diminished because there

would essentially be no need for humans to exist. (possible quote) The one aspect of artificial

intelligence that some engineers dont see is that artificial intelligence can be connected to

everything electronic. They could easily take over whole car factories by running and fixing the

machines as well as ordering more supplies by hooking itself up to the internet. Now that were

crossing over into the human job loss category, this leads to a whole new argument.

One thing that the human species does very well is work. Thats how we live in todays

society and specialized economies. Working gives human's purpose so we feel accomplished at

the end of the day knowing were working towards that big paycheck. Although, with the

creation of artificial intelligence hundreds of thousands of jobs will be lost. Companies like

Google have already invested millions of dollars into funding artificial intelligence projects

which could potentially put thousands of workers out of a job.

Looking at a more in-depth view of artificial intelligence, it can

be seen as a creative genius. Its essentially a software that starts

out in an infant stage where it knows nothing. Software

engineers then train it by assigning certain tasks that it must complete, such as walking. The

artificial intelligence runs through countless trials of error until it achieves its goal of walking,

although, along the way, it usually picks up new skills such as running, climbing and object

awareness. This can all be done in a matter of hours with a couple computers and some
engineers. Now, this is pretty cool and could lead to some interesting goals that are definitely in

the grasps of the artificial intelligence. Except one of those goals could be car designing, and

next thing you know there is no need for car designers. (insert quote)The potential of artificial

intelligence is so broad that its frightening because this could lead to most of the creative jobs

held by humans to disappear and replaced with artificial intelligence, thus taking away a large

aspect of our identity.

The need for humans once artificial intelligence is fully developed drops

significantly. An artificial intelligence is just a genius human with unlimited power and

capabilities so once created, it will be able to maintain itself. As mentioned before, the artificial

intelligence starts out as an infant and learns new skills by making mistakes. Later stages of

artificial intelligence are thought to have the capability of accessing information from the

internet and learning just from that. (insert quote here) These points are being made to prove

that developing complex artificial intelligence will not require any human interaction and

therefore diminish the creative identity of humans.

Even though artificial intelligence could better society with innovative designs and time

saving strategies, it diminishes the creative identity of humans, could replace creative jobs, and

human interaction is not needed once the artificial intelligence is made. The main human identity

is the ability to create, we have been doing it for as long as the earth was made and we should

continue to do it for as long we can. Artificial intelligence has the potential to stop that though.

With its speed, power, and intelligence, it could abduct the one thing the human species is best

at. With the implementation of artificial intelligence, the creative identity of humans will be lost

due to the lack of creative jobs that will be taken over by the artificial intelligence programs.

Once the artificial intelligence is created, it has the ability to develop itself making human
interaction obsolete. This will diminish the creative touch humans have to offer, lessening our

identity as a whole.
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